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Unlike 52 of the teams that have already been sent home, the men’s NCAA tournament remains undefeated. The opening week of March Madness featured yet another delectable feast of upsets (so long, Florida), buzzer-beaters (take a bow, Dylan Darling) and Cinderellas (High Point lived up to its name). The second week figures to provide more […]
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Janis Burke is the new chief sports officer of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, bringing an industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience to one of the hottest markets in the country. Burke joins LVCVA from the Sports Events & Tourism Association, where she was the chief of international sports and […]
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Perfect Game is getting bigger by going Down Under. The world’s largest youth baseball and softball platform has named Oz Ball Tournaments Pty an official Perfect Game Area Director in Australia, thereby establishing Perfect Game-licensed tournaments and showcases across Australia that will operate under the Perfect Game brand. “This partnership represents another major step in […]
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The theme of this year’s “Taste of Derby 2026,” the annual culinary event taking place around the Kentucky Derby, will be Bridles & Bits. The event will be held at the Kentucky International Convention Center on April 30 from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. There will be eight chefs taking part, including three new to […]
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Noblesville, Indiana, will host the Horizon League basketball tournament for five years starting in 2027 with both men’s and women’s games taking place at The Arena at Innovation Mile, which opened last year. First-round games will take place on-campus before the tournament moves to the home of the Indiana Pacers’ G League team, the Noblesville […]
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Geno Auriemma is sitting at a table at a hotel in Rhode Island, food laid out before him, surrounded by his Connecticut Huskies women’s basketball team that he has every reason to suspect might, in just a few weeks, win the 13th national championship in the school’s gilded history. The legendary coach is looking at […]
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To the long list of annual headaches for the NCAA basketball selection committees this time of year — weighing resumes, assessing player injuries, balancing the bracket — add a new one: working around the challenges presented by travel problems brought on by the crisis in the Middle East and a limited number of available charter […]
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The official slogan of the Paralympic Games has long been “Spirit in Motion.” In recent years, para athletes have embraced an unofficial motto: stare power. They know they’re being looked at, and they want to be seen as never before. Not just as athletes, but as people, as individuals who can be as ordinary outside […]
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The United States Bowling Congress Open Championship and USBC Women’s Championships will remain in Reno, Nevada through 2038 on a rotating basis as part of an agreement announced today by the USBC, Visit Reno Tahoe Board of Directors and the City of Reno, Nevada. “We’re honored to continue this agreement with the United States Bowling […]
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The torch may have only recently gone out on the 2026 Olympic Winter Games, but the world has nonetheless changed a great deal already. Among its many impacts, the escalating conflict in the Middle East is disrupting travel across the region, and the first major international sports event to take place since those hostilities began […]
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