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The group looking to bring Major League Baseball to Nashville, Tennessee, has added a baseball legend to its advisory board. The Nashville Stars have announced that Don Mattingly, the former New York Yankees star and MLB manager, will provide counsel on key strategic matters and work to gain support in bringing an MLB franchise to […]
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Sodexo Live! has named Belinda Oakley as its new chief executive officer, North America, to lead the hospitality company. A veteran leader with two decades of foodservice management experience who has successfully led enterprise growth strategies, Oakley will lead more than 20,000 employees at more than 150 venues throughout the United States and Canada. Oakley […]
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The Sports Events & Tourism Association has announced the expansion of its industry partnership with Northstar Meetings Group, the leading multi-platform brand for dedicated meeting and business planners and sports event organizers, to serve as presenting sponsor of the association’s key research products, including the State of the Industry research report. Under terms of the […]
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This past year has been an eventful and historic one at SportsTravel as we celebrated the magazine’s 25th anniversary since its first issue. During the past year, we promoted longtime senior editor Matt Traub to the position of managing editor and hired Justin Shaw, another sports journalism veteran as our new associate editor. In this […]
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From its signing in 1972, Title IX has become the backbone for which women’s sports have climbed from decades of inequity and ignorance to the spot they have today. Particularly for the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic movement, the past decade has seen the biggest names and biggest accomplishments come from the women’s teams. Indeed, women’s […]
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Panama City Beach, Florida, welcomed 2,000 athletes for the 2022 Visit Panama City Beach Ironman Florida triathlon, part of the VinFast Ironman U.S. Series, on November 5. Athletes began with a 2.4-mile swim in the Gulf of Mexico before taking on a 112-mile bike ride through Bay County and a 26.2-mile run on a flat […]
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Pensacola, Florida’s first time hosting the 2022 Southeastern Conference Women’s Soccer Tournament featured upset wins, overtime games and record-breaking crowds at Ashton Brosnaham Park. With more than 10,000 spectators attending, the tournament broke attendance records for the SEC’s 37-year history of hosting championship women’s soccer. “Pensacola really showed up to cheer on these talented student-athletes, […]
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Anheuser-Busch has hopped on the pickleball craze, announcing that it has purchased a Major League Pickleball team for the 2023 season in a deal that will give the beverage giant a founding partnership with the larger MLP league and control over one of the league’s expansion teams. “We have a proud and longstanding history as […]
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Victoria Brumfield has been named chief executive officer for USA Triathlon after serving as interim CEO since September. She will become the first female CEO in the national governing body’s history. “It became clear after a robust global search and rigorous interview process that Victoria is the dynamic leader USA Triathlon needs to continue to […]
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USA Hockey has hired Taryn Cass as coordinator of events and Brianna Rhone as coordinator of digital content. Cass begins her role at USA Hockey after five years with USA Boxing as the national governing body’s events and boxing operations coordinator. She also worked for five years with the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association as rodeo […]
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