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The Pittsburgh Penguins will be at least the fourth National Hockey League team with a sports betting lounge inside its venue after the Penguins signed a multiyear partnership with Rivers Casino and BetRivers.com to become the team’s official casino and official sportsbook, a deal that will include the placement of a BetRivers sportsbook-style lounge inside […]
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Droo Callahan has been selected as the general manager for The Bridge Sports Complex in West Virginia, a Sports Facilities Management venue that is set to open in 2021. The hire was made by the city of Bridgeport, West Virginia, which is overseeing the project in partnership with SFM. Callahan had a 10-year professional soccer […]
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Last year’s college football season was historic — the 150th anniversary of the sport became a season-long celebration culminating with one of the modern era’s most dominant teams ever, LSU, crushing Clemson to win the College Football Playoff championship game. This year’s season will be perhaps even more historic … and not for celebratory reasons. […]
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A proposal led by the San Diego Padres to turn parking lots next to Petco Park into a mixed-use project that would bring apartments and other office spaces into the downtown district has been given initial approval by the city of San Diego, giving the Padres group the chance to seek city approvals for a […]
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While perhaps not at the forefront of many sports fans’ minds, the Professional Bull Riders were actually the first pro league in North America to have an event during the COVID-19 pandemic, starting up within six weeks of suspending action. “It seems like a lifetime ago,” said PBR Commissioner and CEO Sean Gleason during the […]
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The current chief executive officer of the U.S. Golf Association will leave the organization at the end of 2021 to join a new business venture specializing in golf course design. Mike Davis, who had been in charge of the organizations since 2016, will join Tom Fazio II in a new business venture at Fazio & […]
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A new sports complex at the Placer Valley Event Center, the centerpiece of a $47 million reimagining of @the Grounds fairgrounds in Roseville, California, will have a local construction firm as its naming rights sponsor. Roebbelen Contracting has purchased the naming rights sponsorship for the complex, although financial terms were not released. The business was […]
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However and whenever sports fans are allowed back into venues, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated many of the new technologies that were already in planning and development to make the experience more frictionless than ever before. Gone — at least for now and perhaps for good — are the days when paper tickets were exchanged […]
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The 2020 USA Boxing National Championships will take place at the Shreveport Convention Center in Shreveport, Louisiana. The announcement was made by the national governing body earlier this month. Registration for the event will open October 1 with competition scheduled for December 5–12. Due to COVID-19 and being the sole USA Boxing tournament in 2020, […]
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It may not have the drama of Selection Sunday, but Selection Wednesday is coming on October 14 as the NCAA will release future hosts for 86 championship events, including hundreds of regional competitions, for the 2022–2023 through 2025–2026 seasons. The announcement will be posted on the NCAA’s home page at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time […]
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