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For hundreds of cities and towns across the United States, college football season brings a special kind of tourism boom each fall. Few locations echo louder than Baton Rouge, Louisiana. LSU’s iconic Tiger Stadium that holds more than 102,000 people, and thousands more Tiger faithful and out-of-town visitors flood Baton Rouge on game weekends, making […]
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The current state of the running industry, case studies of emerging marathon events around the world, and the future of mass participation sports globalization were all on the agenda at the 2026 Global Running Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. Hosted by World Athletics in collaboration with Danish Athletics, the fifth edition of the […]
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The 2026 World Athletics World Road Running Championships and coinciding Global Running Conference, held in Copenhagen last weekend, served as both a nod to the past and a look toward the future of mass participation events. It also highlighted just how far the movement has progressed in the last five decades. A […]
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On July 21, a cargo ship departed the United States, bound for London. After a five-week journey across the Atlantic Ocean, it landed in England. Inside were essential elements to bring major American college football to the capital of the United Kingdom for the first time in 38 years. Bottled water. Athletic tape. Training tables. All […]
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The college football season is two weeks old and the sport has already revived its reputation for being delightfully unpredictable. Already this month has featured a controversial, Hail Mary finish between Michigan and Western Michigan at the Big House, a goal-post toppling upset by Oklahoma State over No. 6 Oregon in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and a […]
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This essay is recalls one person’s relationship with the events of September 11, but reflects a commonality shared by millions, even for those who did not have direct connections to the terrorist attacks of the day. From their birth in 1973 to their death 28 years later, the twin towers of the World Trade Center […]
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For more than a decade, Jake Fehling and 12 of his friends, most of them college buddies from the University of North Carolina, have found a special way to get together. Once a year they go to a different city together, but their travel isn’t centered around weddings or reunions or even Tar Heel games. […]
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It might be stating the obvious to say that Borough Hall, Greenwich, in London, is a world away from Japan. But on a sweltering summer’s night in the capital, the site was transformed into a sumo wrestling venue that would not have looked out of place alongside the arenas in Tokyo, Osaka, or Nagoya that […]
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The NFL is going global like never before this season — and wasting no time in doing so. The first game of the league’s 107th season kicks off with a rare Wednesday game, a Super Bowl rematch between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots at Lumen Field. The next day — in the league’s […]
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Each summer for nearly two decades, the most popular team in America’s most popular sport has packed up its operations and traveled nearly 1,500 miles away to start its quest for a championship. In that time, the Dallas Cowboys have not won the Super Bowl. But they have managed to make the seaside city of […]
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