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Belgium Manager Rudi Garcia and Seattle Sounders Head Coach Brian Schmetzer (Credit: Seattle Sounders FC / Royal Belgian Football Association)

Belgium Sets Up FIFA World Cup Base Camp at Seattle Sounders FC Facility

The Belgian Men’s National Soccer Team will use Seattle Sounders FC’s Providence Swedish Performance Center & Clubhouse in Renton, Washington, as its team base camp training site during the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The facility, which encompasses 50,000 square feet and is located 15 miles from downtown Seattle and Sounders’ Lumen Field, will become Belgium’s […]

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The new MLS office in Manhattan (Photo Credit: Eric Laignel)

Major League Soccer Unveils New Manhattan Headquarters

Major League Soccer has unveiled its new global headquarters at 2 Penn Plaza in New York City. The move to the new office takes place with immediate effect. The new space across two floors and 126,000 square feet will be almost double the square-footage of the league’s previous headquarters nearby at 420 Fifth Avenue. Located […]

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New Morocco Head Coach Mohamed Ouahbi (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Morocco Chooses New Jersey Base Camp for 2026 FIFA World Cup

The Moroccan Men’s National Soccer Team will utilize The Pingry School in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, as its team base camp training site during the upcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup. Spanning over 120 hectares, the Pingry School was previously the base camp for Italy during the 1994 FIFA World Cup (hosted solely in the United […]

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The Boston Stadium in Foxborough during a New England Patriots NFL game (AP Photo/Stew Milne, File)

2026 FIFA World Cup Host City Guide: Boston, Massachusetts

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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Glasgow will host the European Cross Country Championships in 2027 (Credit: European Athletics)

Glasgow to Host 2027 European Cross Country Championships

European Athletics has announced that Glasgow, Scotland, will host the 33rd SPAR European Cross Country Championships in 2027, following a successful bid process led by UK Athletics. It will be the first time that Glasgow has hosted the Championships and 24 years after the event was last held in the UK, when Holyrood Park in […]

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Brighton & Hove Albion Unveils Plans for £80M “Built for Her” Women’s Team’s Stadium

English Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion has revealed plans for what it says would be the UK and Europe’s first purpose-built women’s football (soccer) stadium, If built, the club states that it would become one of only three such stadiums in the world. Elsewhere, NWSL franchise Kansas City opened its CPKC Stadium in […]

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Sabastian Sawe from Kenya (AP Photo/Ian Walton)

Sabastian Sawe and Humanoid Robots Reset The Clock for Marathon Records

When Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe crossed the finish line in 1:59:30 at the TCS London Marathon last Sunday, he didn’t just become the first person to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race — he defied physics and human belief. Sawe wasn’t even alone in his historic accomplishment, as Ethiopian debutant Yomif Kejelcha finished in […]

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LA28 Sold 4 Million Tickets in Opening Window

More than four million tickets have already been sold for the LA28 Olympic Summer Games in the opening window of sales. Tickets for the Games went on sale to the general public worldwide when Drop One opened on April 9 (the earliest on-sale period for an Olympic Games), before it closed 10 days later. Fans […]

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Columbus, Ohio, will have the next NWSL franchise (Credit: NWSL)

NWSL Awards Expansion Franchise to Columbus, Ohio, for Record $205M Fee

The National Women’s Soccer League has announced that it has awarded its 18th franchise to Columbus, Ohio. Set to begin play in 2028, the club will be owned by Haslam Sports Group, Nationwide and Drs. Christine and Pete Edwards. The expansion team will temporarily be named Columbus NWSL 2028 until an official team name, colors […]

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Kenya's Sabastian Sawe won the men's race in London in 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

A Fan’s Guide to The London Marathon

For more than a century, London has set the pace in the marathon world. During the 1908 Summer Olympics in that city, the official race distance was moved from 25 miles to 26.2 miles for reasons that remain unclear to historians but may have had something to do with wanting to appease the king and […]

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