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Kristen Adamo has been appointed president and CEO of the Providence Warwick Convention & Visitors Bureau, where she most recently served as vice president of marketing and communications. Adamo will begin her new role on April 25. “Kristen was selected after a thorough and comprehensive process led by a search committee working with SearchWide Global, […]
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The International Table Tennis Federation has selected Houston to host the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships, marking the first time the event will be held in the United States. The announcement was made at the 2019 ITTF annual general meeting and World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Additionally, the Chinese Table Tennis Federation was awarded the […]
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Major League Soccer has announced plans to expand to 30 clubs in the coming years, up from its original expansion target of 28. The league has also set the expansion fee for teams 28 and 29 at $200 million, $50 million more than what the latest expansion teams paid. “Professional soccer at all levels is […]
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The annual summer Dew Tour skateboard competition and festival will serve as the first official global Olympic qualifying event in the United States for men’s and women’s skateboarding park and street competitions in 2019 and the final qualifying event in 2020. The announcement is part of a collaboration by World Skate, which sanctions Dew Tour, […]
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The NBA 2K League has announced that The Turn powered by AT&T, the league’s second tournament of the season, will be staged at HyperX Esports Arena Las Vegas at Luxor Hotel & Casino, marking the first time NBA 2K League games will be held outside of the NBA 2K League Studio Powered by Intel in […]
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Four finalists have been selected to serve as potential hosts for a new Ironman triathlon: Des Moines, Iowa; Fayetteville, Arkansas; Memphis, Tennessee; and Tulsa, Oklahoma. The event is expected to take place in late spring or early summer of 2020 and will be the first new, full-distance Ironman triathlon introduced in the United States since […]
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The USGA has selected Erin Hills golf course, in Erin, Wisconsin, to host the 2025 U.S. Women’s Open and 2022 U.S. Mid-Amateur Championships. The U.S. Women’s Open will be staged May 29–June 1, 2025. The U.S. Mid-Amateur will be held September 10–15, 2022, with Blue Mound Golf and Country Club, in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, serving as the stroke-play […]
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The 2026 Major League Baseball All-Star Game will be held in Philadelphia, aligned with the celebration of the 250th anniversary of American independence. The move marks yet another Midsummer Classic aligned with American history for Philadelphia, which hosted in 1976 on the nation’s bicentennial. The game will mark the city’s fifth time hosting and the first […]
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been selected to host the 2020 USA Roller Sports National Championships, a 23-day event in July that will be held at the Cedar Rapids Ice Arena. Disciplines that will be contested at the championships are figure skating, inline hockey, rink hockey, roller derby, freestyle and speedskating. “We’re beyond excited about what […]
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USA Team Handball has named Barry Siff as its chief executive officer, effective immediately. Siff will succeed Michael Cavanaugh, who will remain on staff as operations director, working with Siff to align the national governing body’s policies and procedures with USOC programs and manage domestic and international competitions. Siff has experience in the Olympic movement having […]
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