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The decision on which 10 U.S. destinations will host rounds of the 2026 FIFA World Cup is still to come this year. But the remaining finalist cities are jockeying in subtle and not-so-subtle ways as they seek to catch the eye of FIFA and prove their international soccer hosting bona fides. Denver is the latest […]
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The Sports Events and Tourism Association has announced a new partnership with the EventConnect registration platform to produce a live dashboard of events aimed at helping the industry track where events are being staged and by what type. Sports ETA’s The Pulse powered by EventConnect will provide industry insights for destinations and events rights holders […]
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The United States Football League has become the latest former spring football league to announce a reboot, with league officials saying they expect the league to return in spring 2022. When it launched in 1983, the USFL was an upstart league of 12 teams that aimed to compete with the National Football League. The league […]
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The Armory Foundation will host a record number of track-and-field meets at the Armory New Balance Track & Field Center during the 2021–2022 indoor season. The foundation has 117 events scheduled as indoor track returns after the pandemic. The schedule at the famed venue in New York begins October 10 and November 7 with The […]
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On Location will serve as the official hospitality provider for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris (2024), Milan Cortina, Italy (2026), and Los Angeles (2028) under a deal announced with the International Olympic Committee, the International Paralympic Committee and the organizing committees of each of those upcoming Games. Under the agreement, fans and stakeholders […]
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For years, the claim to fame for Emporia, Kansas — a city of 25,000 between Wichita and Topeka — was that William Allen White, the famed Kansas newspaperman from the early 1900s, called the area home. “I love that we have that history,” said LeLan Dains, director of Visit Emporia. “But no one is pulling […]
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The USA Wheelchair Football League will more than double its reach for the 2021 season, expanding from four to nine cities. The league, organized by the Move United adaptive sports organization, will add teams in Birmingham, Alabama; Buffalo, New York; Cleveland; Tampa, Florida; and New Orleans. The league was founded in 2019 with teams in […]
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Tim Schneider, the chairman of the Sports Division at Northstar Meetings Group, is the founder of SportsTravel magazine, the TEAMS Conference and Expo and the EsportsTravel Summit. In this conversation with SportsTravel Editor and Publisher Jason Gewirtz, we talk with Schneider about the origins of SportsTravel and the sports-event industry itself, the growth of sectors such […]
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USA Cheer, the national governing body for sport cheering and the sport of stunt, has reached an agreement with TeachAids to provide the company’s CrashCourse concussion education technology to its members. CrashCourse is a suite of interactive products focused on the prevention and treatment of concussions and related mental health issues, and is designed to […]
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Esports Entertainment Group has reached a multi-year deal with the Cleveland Cavaliers to be the official esports tournament platform provider of the NBA team. Under terms of the deal, Esports Entertainment Group will operate three co-branded esports tournaments annually for the Cavaliers using its Esports Gaming League platform. EGL’s services include the organization of esports […]
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