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Visit Salt Lake has launched a newly-formed sports sales and marketing division, Sports Salt Lake, to focus on the continued growth of the multi-billion segment of the nation’s tourism industry and an ever-growing portion of Salt Lake’s visitor economy. In collaboration with those who operate Salt Lake’s collection of sports-related venues, Clay Partain will into […]
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P3R, which organizes the annual Dick’s Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Marathon, has agreed to a new partnership with Dunkin’ that will make it the official coffee and doughnut of the annual race. Dunkin’ will kick off the 2021 race weekend with a special black and gold Pittsburgh Marathon doughnut at participating Pittsburgh locations with vanilla flavored […]
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The 2021 NFL Draft will be held as an in-person event in Cleveland with the rookie draft class near the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, one year after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the event to go virtual from Commissioner Roger Goodell‘s house. The league announced some its plans for this year’s three-day event after […]
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Events DC will launch its own collegiate esports conference in partnership with Game Gym that will host competitions and other esports programs for colleges and universities in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. The Mid-Atlantic Esports Conference will be designed to create local rivalries and foster friendly competition among the participating universities and support the development […]
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Sports ETA will organize a second version of its SportsBIZ XChange in May, a three-day virtual event that will feature business appointments and industry networking opportunities for members of the association. The online event will be held May 18–20, 2021. The first version of the event was held in August 2020 in place of the […]
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The David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh has announced a partnership with CNTV, an event support team that specializes in the design, strategy and production of hybrid events. The deal follows the recent creation of The Confluence, an Event Studio at the downtown convention center that will allow event organizers to live stream, pre-record […]
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ASM Global has named Ron Bension to the position of president and chief executive officer. Bension will assume his new role immediately after a long tenure at Live Nation as president of House of Blues Entertainment. “We are thrilled to have Ron join the ASM Global team,” said Kosty Gilis, managing director at Onex and ASM […]
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With the conference basketball tournaments over and the NCAA tournaments ready to begin this weekend, it is also time for those conferences to begin the forward planning for future conference championships. And three conferences over the weekend extended their partnerships with local destinations. The Big Sky Conference will keep its men’s and women’s events at […]
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The Houston International Sports Film Festival has announced the judge lineup for the Sports Script Championship, presented by Event Horizon Films. • Lisa Furfine, who is the chief executive officer of the Furfine Network in Malibu. Previously, she was associate publisher of SportsTravel magazine in Los Angeles for 17 years and show manager for the […]
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The Myrtle Beach Sports Center will be renamed to the John T. Rhodes Myrtle Beach Sports Center after the destination’s city council approved a motion this week in memorium to the former mayor of Myrtle Beach, who died from COVID-19 in January. Rhodes served as mayor of Myrtle Beach from 2005 until 2017. During his […]
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