Author: Matt Traub

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New Texas Basketball Arena Named Moody Center

The University of Texas men’s and women’s basketball arena and events center, scheduled to open in 2022 with groundbreaking upcoming in December, will be named the Moody Center after a $130 million grant to the university from the Moody Foundation. The grant is the single largest gift from a foundation in Texas’ history and brings […]

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USA Softball Announces Additional Tour Stops

The USA Softball women’s national team will ramp up preparations for the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Tokyo with the Stand Beside Her Tour as new stops have been announced in Michigan during June. The tour will have 30 cities overall, with several already announced including new additions in Midland, Michigan, and East Lansing, Michigan. […]

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NHL Global Series Heading to Czech Republic, Finland

The National Hockey League’s annual inroads to the key European market will continue in the 2020–2021 season with the announcement of the Czech Republic and Finland as sites for the next edition of the NHL Global Series, featuring the Boston Bruins, Nashville Predators, Colorado Avalanche and Columbus Blue Jackets. The Bruins and Predators will open […]

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B.A.S.S. Expands Regional Schedule

The Bass Anglers Sportsman Society, better known as B.A.S.S., has announced an expanded national schedule for 2020 with five regional competitions instead of three for qualifying to November’s TNT Fireworks B.A.S.S. Nation Championship. There will be qualifying events in the Southeast, Western, Central, Northeast and Northern regions. Qualifiers from all five regions, plus international qualifiers […]

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Competitors enter the water at the International Swimming League competition at Indiana University natatorium on October 5 in Indianapolis. (Alfredo Falcone/LaPresse via AP Images)

International Swim League Broadens the Sport’s Visibility

A new international league features some of the biggest names in swimming—competing in a team format that has proven popular with TV-friendly meets—and already has recorded multiple sellouts before the inaugural season culminates with a showpiece event in Las Vegas. The International Swimming League, which is paying its athletes a salary to compete, hints that things […]

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Wichita to Host U.S. Women’s Volleyball Matches

The United States women’s national volleyball team will host three other international squads in a round-robin event in Wichita, Kansas, as part of the FIVB Volleyball Nations League tournament, a key preparation event to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Tokyo. The June 9–11 event will be the only domestic tournament for the U.S. before […]

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Summer Dew Tour Returns to Long Beach

The final Olympic Summer Games qualifying event in the United States before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be the annual Dew Tour returning to Long Beach, California, for the fifth consecutive year. The four-day event will be a collaboration of skateboarding competitions, culture and creative activations. It will be held at the Long Beach Convention […]

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Blue Jays Spring Training Home Gets New Name

The Toronto Blue Jays will continue to stay at the only spring training the franchise has ever known with a renovated complex getting a new naming rights sponsor in TD Bank. TD Ballpark will be the centerpiece of the Blue Jays’ renovated complex in Dunedin, Florida, the city that has hosted the Major League Baseball […]

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