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UCLA Athletics Director Dan Guerrero, who will retire at the school effective June 30, will start his new job the day after as the next president of the United States International University Sports Federation. Guerrero will serve a four-year term as president. He has been part of the federation since 2015 and formerly was the […]
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The Las Vegas Raiders are on schedule to inherit the keys to Allegiant Stadium on July 31, a team executive revealed during the webinar “Why Flexibility in Venues is More Important than Ever” organized by SportTechie. Matt Pasco, vice president for information technology at the Raiders, says the stadium is structurally complete and the ongoing […]
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Cities that plan never again to do business as usual will have a step ahead on others when sports events re-emerge from a post-coronavirus landscape, panelists said during the Sports ETA webinar “Seven New Directions and Opportunities for Cities in the Aftermath of COVID-19.” “Getting back to normal is no longer an option, we are […]
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San Diego State University’s plans for a new football stadium on campus has been approved both in the design and financing stage by the California State University Board of Trustees, setting up the next step in the Aztecs’ plans to create a 35,000-seat stadium on campus. Aztec Stadium, estimated to cost $310 million, will be […]
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Dan Butterly, who during his time as Mountain West Conference senior associate commissioner worked on NCAA committees for men’s basketball, football and helped create the brand image for the College Football Playoff, will become the new commissioner of the Big West Conference after Dennis Farrell retires on July 1 after 28 years in charge of […]
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The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics will start women’s flag football as an official sport by 2021 thanks to a two-year partnership between the NAIA, the National Football League and Reigning Champs Experiences. The agreement will give the NAIA the ability to develop league infrastructure and operations for the first women’s flag football competition governed by […]
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Greensboro, North Carolina, which had been scheduled to host the 2020 Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament before the event was canceled due to COVID-19, will get to host the event in 2023. ACC Commissioner John Swofford announced that the conference will return to the Greensboro Coliseum for what will be the 28th time for […]
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The Olympic Summer Games’ postponement to 2021 in Tokyo set a series of ripples throughout the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee that the organization is adapting to on a daily basis. “The timing implications of the postponement are significant,” USOPC CEO Sarah Hirshland said during the latest Sports Business Journal/CAA World Congress virtual event. “We […]
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The NCAA still plans to announce the hosts for more than 500 championship events in October, with sport committees sifting through the more than 3,000 applications received before this past February’s deadline. The tentative date to release the names of the hosts is the week of October 12, said Russ Yurk, president of 129 Sports, […]
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The Independence Bowl will have a new title sponsor starting with the 2020 game as Radiance Technologies has signed a five-year agreement. The annual game is held in Shreveport, Louisiana, and will likely feature an annual matchup of either Army or BYU against a rotation of the Pac-12 Conference, American Athletic Conference or Conference USA. […]
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