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TEAMS Europe '26 will be hosted at The Belfry Hotel & Resort

TEAMS Europe ’26 Preview: Everything You Need To Know

TEAMS Europe ’26, produced by Northstar Meetings Group and its flagship SportsTravel media brand, is here. The event, hosted at The Belfry Hotel & Resort in Sutton Coldfield near Birmingham, UK, will take place from 17-19 March and bring together the leaders who are shaping the future of sports-related travel. The conference welcomes event organisers […]

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The Arena at Innovation Mile is the home of the Indiana Pacers' G League team. (Courtesy Horizon League)

Noblesville, Indiana, to Host Horizon League Basketball Tournament Starting in 2027

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 has Connecticut favored to win the school's 13th NCAA championship next month in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

Geno Auriemma Doesn’t Let Travel Problems Interfere With Winning

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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NRG Stadium, home to the NFL's Houston Texans and multiple NCAA basketball men's Final Fours, will be referred to as Houston Stadium during the World Cup. (AP Photo/Jon Shapley)

2026 FIFA World Cup Host City Guide: Houston, Texas

Over the course of 11 weeks, SportsTravel is delving into each of the 11 U.S. cities that will host matches at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which will be the largest edition ever of the event after it was expanded from 32 teams to 48. It will also be the first to be staged in […]

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Tunisia's current captain Ferjani Sassi at the 2022 FIFA World Cup (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Tunisia Locks in Monterrey Base Camp for 2026 FIFA World Cup

Tunisia’s Men’s National Soccer Team has secured a team base camp training site in Monterrey, Mexico, for the duration of the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Canada, Mexico and the United States. The national team will set up its base camp at El Barrial Training Center, the training facilities of Liga MX club C.F. Monterrey […]

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Alireza Jahanbakhsh (left), Mehdi Taremi (center) and Sardar Azmoun (right) (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Iran Edges Closer to 2026 FIFA World Cup Withdrawal

Iran looks set to withdraw from the 2026 FIFA World Cup after its Sports Minister told state media that “under no circumstances can we participate in the World Cup.” Ahmad Donyamali referenced the missile strikes launched by the United States and Israel on February 28, which killed the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah […]

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The men's tournament last expanded in 2001. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

NCAA Asks for Patience on Potential Travel Problems During March Madness

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 Great Park Championship Soccer Stadium in Irvine, California (Credit: Orange County Soccer)

USMNT Selects Irvine’s Great Park for 2026 FIFA World Cup Base Camp

U.S. Soccer has announced that the U.S. Men’s National Team will use Great Park in Irvine, California, as its official team base camp training site during the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which will take place in Canada, Mexico and the United States. The USMNT will train at the Great Park Championship Soccer Stadium, a premier […]

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Oksana Masters' incredible story of overcoming adversity is even more remarkable than the 21 medals she has won at both the summer and winter Paralympic Games. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Paralympic Winter Games: U.S. Medalist Tracker

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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Australian Minister for Home Affairs Tony Burke with the five Iranian players (Australia Ministry of Home Affairs via AP)

Iranian Women’s Soccer Players Granted Asylum in Australia

It has been announced that players from Iran’s National Women’s Soccer Team will be granted asylum in Australia, following the team’s exit from the AFC Women’s Asian Cup 2026 last weekend. In a press conference on Monday, Australian Minister for Home Affairs Tony Burke said that team captain Zahra Ghanbari, as well as Zahra Sarbali […]

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