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USRowing is making a three-year commitment to train in California’s Big Bear Lake for three weeks in the springs of 2026, 2027 and 2028 leading up to the Olympic Summer Games in Los Angeles in 2028. The partnership, which will officially be announced on March 26, is a joint effort among Visit Big Bear, the […]
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The Seattle Mariners are back on top. For the first time in four years, the Mariners will go farther than any team in Major League Baseball this season — at least in the air. According to an analysis by statistical website Baseball Savant, the M’s will log 50,308 miles flying around North America this season, […]
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Nathan Kopp is the new Executive Director of the Austin Sports Commission. He had most recently served as the Vice President of Sports San Diego, which secured and hosted more than 80 new events — including the Concacaf Wome’s Gold Cup and a NASCAR street race — during his tenure and generated more than 400,000 […]
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This week the Toyota Center in Houston will finally get the chance to make its men’s NCAA tournament debut, six years later than originally planned — and much to the delight of the fans of its local school. That venue was scheduled to welcome a regional round of the 2020 tournament, with the University of […]
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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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