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Columbus, St. Paul to Host U.S. Men’s Soccer World Cup Qualifying Matches

U.S. Soccer has selected Columbus, Ohio and St. Paul, Minnesota as the venues for the critical World Cup Qualifiers against El Salvador and Honduras coming up to start the 2022 calendar year. Lower.com Field will be the site of USA-El Salvador on January 27 before an away match at Canada. After that game — reportedly […]

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Revived USFL Announces Eight Teams for 2022; Birmingham a Possible League Host

The revived USFL, the much-celebrated spring football league from the early 1980s that is being brought back in an attempt to capitalize on nostaglia, has announced its inaugural eight teams that will have plenty of familiar names to those who used to follow the league. The eight teams will be the Philadelphia Stars, New Jersey […]

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LPGA Tour 2022 Schedule Increases Emphasis in California, Florida

Southern California and Florida will each have five LPGA Tour events in 2022 as the tour released its 34-tournament calendar with stops also taking place throughout every region of the United States. The 2022 season will open with three weeks in Florida, leading with the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions at Lake Nona Golf […]

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Staples Center No More: Venue Changing Name to Crypto.Com Arena

Staples Center, the downtown Los Angeles home of the NBA’s Lakers and Clippers, the NHL’s Kings and the WNBA’s Sparks, will change its name after 22 years of operation to Crypto.Com Arena, venue owner AEG announced Tuesday night. Multiple reports peg the deal to be $700 million over 20 years, making it what is believed […]

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NBA to Play 2022 Preseason Games in Abu Dhabi

The National Basketball Association will bring its first games to the Arabian Gulf, announcing a deal with the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi to host two preseason games in 2022. The games will be the first of a multiyear deal with the United Arab Emirates. Participating teams and the host venue will […]

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Houston Astros Looking to Develop Minute Maid Park Area

The Houston Astros are the latest Major League Baseball team to look into setting up a mixed-use entertainment district around its ballpark, with the team’s owner saying construction could start within the next year. The team purchased nearly 1.75 acres of land around Minute Maid Park in 2019 and has spent more than $100 million […]

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Maryland Sets September 2022 Dates for Cycling Classic

After having its dates postponed for two consecutive years because of the pandemic, the Maryland Cycling Classic supported by UnitedHealthcare has announced that the professional road cycling event will be staged in and around Baltimore on September 4, 2022. “We are excited to host the inaugural edition of the Maryland Cycling Classic and bring a […]

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Bellerive Country Club to Host 2030 Presidents Cup

Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis will be the host for the 18th Presidents Cup in 2030, becoming the seventh venue in the United States to host the biennial global team competition since it started in 1994. Bellerive adds the Presidents Cup to its history of hosting prestigious events dating to the 1965 U.S. Open […]

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L.A. Chargers Unveil Training Facility Plans

The Los Angeles Chargers have released plans for a 14-acre training facility and corporate headquarters in El Segundo, California, with everything from practice fields to an esports facility encompassing the site that has a targeted spring 2024 completion date. “When searching for a location to establish our hub of football and business operations, we didn’t […]

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G League Showcase Heading Back to Las Vegas

The 2021 NBA G League Winter Showcase will take place in Las Vegas from December 19–22 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, spanning four days with more than 30 games across two courts for the league’s in-season scouting opportunity. Games will begin at 11 a.m. PT each day with four games on each court. The […]

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