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Seattle Storm to Develop Center for Basketball Performance

The Seattle Storm will build a practice facility and training center to house basketball and business operations with a targeted opening of 2024, encompassing two practice courts along with locker rooms, a lounge and a nutrition center for players, and strength and conditioning training spaces. The facility — with 85 percent of project team members […]

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Street League Skateboarding has announced Everett, Washington, will be the third U.S. stop on its 2022 tour.

Street League Skateboarding Adds 2022 Date in Everett, Washington

Street League Skateboarding has announced more details on the return of the SLS Championship Tour to the Pacific Northwest. Everett, Washington, will host the tour’s second stop during a weekend event August 13–14 at Angel of the Winds Arena. Tickets for the event are on sale at streetleague.com. “For over a decade, SLS has paved the […]

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Competitiors in the men's 5,000 meter event at the 1984 Olympic Summer Games in Los Angeles circle past the Olympic torch during the race on August 11, 1984. Los Angeles in 2028 will join London and Paris as the only three-time hosts of the Olympic Summer Games. (AP Photo, File)

Bobsled and Skeleton World Cup Races Return to North America in 2022

Bobsled and skeleton World Cup races have not taken place in North America since before the COVID-19 pandemic, but that will change this coming winter. The International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation has announced events will return to North America for the first time since 2019, allowing U.S. and Canadian athletes a chance to compete on […]

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Syracuse University and JMA Wireless announced a 10-year partnership for naming rights of the University’s iconic on-campus stadium.

Syracuse University and JMA Wireless Agree to Naming Rights Deal

The iconic dome that houses Syracuse basketball and football, among other events, has a new name. Syracuse University and JMA Wireless have announced a 10-year partnership for naming rights of the on-campus stadium. For the first time since the venue opened in 1980, the stadium will have a new name, only the second in its […]

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Real Madrid has agreed to a joint venture with U.S.-based Sixth Street in which profits from the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium will be shared.

Partnership Launched Between Real Madrid, Sixth Street and Legends

Real Madrid has signed an agreement with U.S.-based investment firm Sixth Street and Legends that will leverage the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium for potentially new events while giving the club hundreds of millions of dollars in new capital. Sixth Street will pay about $380 million over 20 years for a 30 percent stake in stadium operations. […]

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Starr Butler-Jemison will join OVG360 – the venue management, venue services, and hospitality division of Oak View Group – as senior vice president of content development and private events.

Starr Butler-Jemison Joins OVG360 Executive Team

Content and booking professional Starr Butler-Jemison will join OVG360 as senior vice president of content development and private events. Butler-Jemison will start July 5 and oversee a new division focused on private functions, major corporate events and content development across the OVG360 universe of 300-plus arenas, stadiums and convention centers. She will be based in […]

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Carter Hess from the United States competes at the 2021 ISA World Para Surfing Championship. Photo by ISA/Sean Evans

Pismo Beach Returns as ISA World Para Surfing Championships Host for 2022

The International Surfing Association has announced the World Para Surfing Championships will be returning to Pismo Beach, California, again in 2022. Tthe ISA’s flagship Para surfing competition will return from December 4–11, 2022, to the Central Coast, which hosted in 2021. AmpSurf, a non-profit with the stated aim of promoting, inspiring, educating and rehabilitating people […]

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Montgomery Whitewater, a new multi-use complex in the Alabama destination, is scheduled to open in the spring of 2023. Rendering courtesy Montgomery Whitewater.

New Whitewater Center Heading to Montgomery

A long time ago, Megan McKenzie was sent some videos by her sister-in-law after a visit to the U.S. National Whitewater Center in Charlotte, planting an idea that she could never truly stop thinking about. “There was something so cool about the energy and that it was a man-made facility,” she said. “You don’t have […]

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World Athletics Championships Oregon22 has announced that Legend the Bigfoot is the mascot for the July 15-24 event.

Legend the Bigfoot Named World Athletics Championships Mascot

After decades of people searching the vast wilderness of the United States, Bigfoot has finally been found. The local organizing committee for the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 has announced “Legend the Bigfoot” as the official mascot for this summer’s event. The 18th edition of the World Athletics Championships will be held on U.S. soil for the first time, taking place […]

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FY 2023 Sports Tournament Grant applications are now open in Loudoun County, Virginia.

Loudoun County Sports Tournament Grant Applications Now Open

Loudoun County, Virginia, is looking to expand its footprint in the sports-related travel market with the opening of its Fiscal Year 2023 Sports Tournament Grant program. The Sports Tournaments Grant Program was established as one of the strategic growth initiatives of the Tourism Destination Strategy adopted by the Loudoun Board of Supervisors in March 2006. […]

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