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Developers in Raleigh, North Carolina, have proposed a 55-acre entertainment district in the downtown area that includes a 20,000-seat soccer stadium with the hopes of landing a Major League Soccer expansion team. The projected, called “Downtown South,” would also include 1,200 hotel rooms, 125,000 square feet of retail and service space and 1.6 million square […]
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The Professional Bowlers Association will return to Las Vegas in 2020 for the World Series of Bowling XI, which is capped off by the PBA World Championships. The event will be hosted by South Point Bowling Plaza, May 6—19. The 11th annual World Series of Bowling features the PBA Cheetah, Chamelon and Scorpion championships plus […]
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UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion will be the host for the 2019 Call of Duty World League Championships, Aug. 14—18 as the event returns to Los Angeles after two years away from California. The CWL Championships have been in Orlando, Florida and Columbus, Ohio the past two years. Los Angeles was the event’s home before the […]
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The first dedicated curling venue in Illinois has been officially opened in Villa Park, Illinois, to give the Windy City Curling Club a permanent home. The 100-member club has been active since 2014, but did not have its own facility in DuPage County until this month. The center includes three curling sheets, locker rooms and […]
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Des Moines, Iowa, will host next year’s Ironman 70.3 North American championship on June 21, 2020, as part of a multiyear host agreement. It will be the first time that the organization holds an event in Iowa. The course is described as flat and quick and goes between Des Moines, West Des Moines and areas of […]
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The National Hockey League will hold its 2020 Draft at the Bell Centre in Montreal, returning to the province of Quebec for the first time since 2009. The 2020 event will be held June 26—27. It will be the 27th time that Montreal has hosted the draft overall; previous Montreal sites for the draft included […]
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The 2020 USA Swimming Pro Swim Series, which will serve as a lead-up to the Olympic Trials, has been announced with the return of a November event to the five-stop circuit. The series will start Noember 6—9 in Greensboro, North Carolina. The rest of the events are January 16—19 in Knoxville, Tennessee; March 4—7 in […]
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USA Fencing will hold its Division I National Championship and the April North American Cup at the America’s Center Convention Complex in St. Louis, it was announced this week. The event will be April 17—20, 2020. The Division I National Championship is the final qualifier for the U.S. 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Fencing Team, with […]
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Let the Games begin … or, at least, the game that is qualifying for the Games. The qualifying process for skateboarding’s Olympic Summer Games debut was unveiled as part of the Dew Tour’s stop in Long Beach, California, this past weekend. The 2020 Games in Tokyo will have four events — men’s and women’s street, […]
Continue ReadingTulsa, Oklahoma has been selected as the multi-year host for a new Ironman triathlon, starting with the inaugural edition on May 31, 2020. Tulsa was selected as the host during a search that also included Des Moines, Iowa; Fayetteville, Arkansas; and Memphis, Tennessee. It will be the first new full-distance Ironman triathlon to be held […]
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