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Fourteen years ago when London hosted the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games, its official motto was “Inspire a Generation.” One month ago, Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe and Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa did just that when they crossed the finish line at the TCS London Marathon in respective record time — Sawe became the first person to […]
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Greg Fante, president and CEO of the Louisville Sports Commission, has been named Executive of the Year by Sports ETA and the organization’s CE Summit in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday. Fante was unable to attend the event in person, and was given the award in advance during a virtual presentation. The Executive of the Year […]
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In advance of this summer’s FIFA World Cup, SportsTravel is delving into each of the 11 U.S. cities that will host matches during the event. This year’s edition will be the largest ever, with 48 teams (up from 32), and it will be the first to be staged in three countries — Canada, Mexico and […]
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In 2024, the Esports Foundation debuted the Esports World Cup, bringing 28 club teams together and featuring a prize pool of $62.5 million, the largest in esports history. For the second edition of that event in 2025, the prize pool jumped to $71.5 million. The success of that event made it clear to its organizers […]
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The eyes of the college and professional sports worlds will center on the same place this weekend: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with one event that has become an annual staple and another that is looking like it might follow suit. First up: the Women’s College World Series, which got underway on Thursday with a powerhouse field […]
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The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference is out. The Metro Conference is in. Starting July 1 of this year, the 46-year-old league made up of 13 schools in the Northeast is being rebranded, the result of an initiative that began in 2023 with the goal of establishing a more modern identity. “The goal of this project […]
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LA28 has unveiled its Paralympic competition schedule by event, detailing when medal events will take place across 14 days of competition during Los Angeles’ first-ever Paralympic Games. The schedule maps out each medal event across more than 1,100 hours of competition and provides additional detail on all confirmed sports and venues, giving athletes, fans and […]
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Scott Coker, the founder and former CEO of Strikeforce, former president of Bellator MMA and founder of Fight Night at the Tech, has announced plans to launch a new MMA “fight league” next year. Coker will serve as CEO, while Griffin Gaming Partners Co-Founder Peter Levin, who previously backed Strikeforce before selling to the UFC […]
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Obstacle racing will officially be a new Modern Pentathlon discipline at the LA28 Olympic Summer Games. It comes after an agreement was reached between Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS for short, the Japanese company that created Ninja Warrior) and the Union Internationale de Pentathlon (UIPM) to collaborate on the SASUKE/Ninja Warrior discipline within the Modern Pentathlon […]
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In advance of this summer’s FIFA World Cup, SportsTravel is delving into each of the 11 U.S. cities that will host matches during the event. This year’s edition will be the largest ever, with 48 teams (up from 32), and it will be the first to be staged in three countries — Canada, Mexico and the United […]
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