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World Supercross Partners With Destination Sport Travel

The FIM World Supercross Championship has announced a multi-year partnership with global travel management provider Destination Sport Travel to manage all global travel requirements for competition staff, teams, suppliers and partners. The partnership comes as World Supercross recently announced a 2025 calendar featuring rounds across five continents, including Malaysia, Buenos Aires, Vancouver, the Gold Coast […]

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Major League Baseball, Union Could Let Players in 2028 Olympics

Major League Baseball met with organizers of the 2028 Olympic Summer Games this week ahead of the MLB All-Star Game in Atlanta as movement continues to see if MLB players will be allowed to play in the Games for the first time. MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said Olympic officials were meeting with the Major League […]

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Spain's Alejandro Balde, left, goes for the ball in front of Norway's Sander Berge during a soccer match between Spain and Norway at La Rosaleda in Malaga, Spain, in 2023. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Málaga Withdraws From Spain’s 2030 World Cup Host Race

Málaga has pulled out of being a host city for the 2030 FIFA World Cup after a meeting with city and fans of the local soccer club. La Rosaleda, Málaga’s stadium, has a capacity of 30,000 and would have neeeded a major redevelopment project to expand its capacity to 45,000. Such a project would have […]

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Jason Sands will be part of Kemper Sports as its newest executive. (Photo by Jared Wickerham/Wick Photography)

Jason Sands Named Vice President of New Business Development for KemperSports Venues

Jason Sands will join the KemperSports team as vice president of new business development for KemperSports Venues, the company’s youth sports management division. For the past eight years, Sands has served as executive director for the Fort Worth Sports Commission and vice president of sports for the Fort Worth CVB, helping bring to the community […]

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2026 Olympic and Paralympic Medals for Milan-Cortina Unveiled

The medals that will be awarded at the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Italy were unveiled today at Palazzo Balbi in Venice, reflecting two halves for a Games that are being held in two city clusters and portraying the culmination of an athlete and Para athlete’s journey and all of those who stood […]

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SEICon's keynote session included Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt; Steve Hill, president and CEO of Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority; and Marc Badain, president of the A’s. Photo by SportsTravel/Justin Shaw

SEICon Brings Big Names From Sports World Together

There’s no better place in the country than Las Vegas to bring together high–level sports executives from around the country for a meeting of the minds, as was the case last week when the second annual SEICon came to the Bellagio offering a wide variety of programming with some of the biggest names in the […]

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Blast Appoints Charlie Cowdrey as CEO of JioBlast

Global esports company Blast has announced the appointment of Charlie Cowdrey as chief executive officer of JioBlast, the recently announced joint venture between Blast and Rise, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited. Cowdrey has held multiple senior leadership roles at Blast over the last four years, including chief of staff and most recently program director […]

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Major League Fishing Reveals 2026 Bass Pro Tour Schedule

Major League Fishing has announced the 2026 Bass Pro Tour schedule, with seven states hosting events throughout the year and a roster of 51 pros battling for Fishing Clash Angler of the Year honors and qualification into Redcrest 2027 and the MLF Heavy Hitters all-star event. The season kicks off January 15–18 at Lake Guntersville […]

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Disney Young Legends Soccer Tournament Coming to Disney World

Elite youth soccer players have an opportunity to become “legends” with a new event coming to Walt Disney World Resort this year. The inaugural Disney Young Legends Soccer Tournament will feature a 16-team Supergroup division for U17 and U19 boys teams (32 teams total) comprised of highly-ranked U.S. and international players competing at the ESPN […]

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LA28 Releases Competition Schedule to Mark Three-Year Countdown to Olympics

The 2028 Olympic Summer Games Opening Ceremony will start at 8 p.m. Eastern time at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and SoFi Stadium in Inglewood with the first medal of the Games to be awarded in triathlon along Venice Beach, as the LA28’s first look at a competition schedule was released Monday to coincide with […]

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