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ReaganCarey

Reagan Carey Named PHF Commissioner

Reagan Carey, the former director of women’s ice hockey and general manager for the women’s national team at USA Hockey, has been named the Premier Hockey Federation’s next commissioner. Carey’s tenure at USA Hockey was highlighted by a gold medal victory at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games. She starts with the PHF on May 10 […]

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Move United Education Conference

Move United Brings Education Conference to Colorado Springs

Move United, the organization of community-based sports and recreation for individuals with disabilities, will host its annual Education Conference May 9–11, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The conference theme will be “Challenging Ableism Through Sport: Awareness, Access, & Action,” and will aim to provide tools and training to address stigma and stereotypes specific to disability in […]

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2025 Invictus Games

Canada Wins 2025 Hosting Rights for Invictus Games

The Invictus Games 2025 has been awarded to Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, in partnership with True Patriot Love Foundation. Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex and founding patron of the Invictus Games Foundation, also announced the 2025 Games will be the first to incorporate winter adaptive sports in addition to some of the core sports from previous […]

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USA BMX Foundation

USA BMX Appoints Ray Hoyt to Lead National Foundation

Ray Hoyt has been hired to lead the USA BMX Foundation as executive director and will be charged with driving revenue and program development to support the foundation’s STEM and scholarship initiatives serving youth nationwide. Hoyt was instrumental in bringing the USA BMX Headquarters to Tulsa, which officially opened earlier this year. Most recently, Hoyt […]

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Stephen Curry
Stephen Curry on the Silverado Resort North Course during the pro-am event of the Safeway Open PGA tournament on September 25, 2019, in Napa, California. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Stephen Curry Organizing Junior Golf Tour with AJGA

The American Junior Golf Association is getting a high-profile boost at five of its events this year after NBA superstar and golf fanatic Stephen Curry announced Thursday that his “Underrated” brand will launch a new junior golf tour accredited by the AJGA. The UNDERRATED Golf Tour will host five free events this summer which includes […]

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NTBAGirls
National Travel Basketball Association President John Whitley says his organization has found "facilities, all the cities we deal with, really have done a great job of adjusting on their end and it’s made our job a lot easier knowing they have everything in place.” Photo courtesy of NTBA

How Relationships Still Drive the Event Bidding Landscape

It’s one of the words that has been used the most during the pandemic, to the point that it has become loathed by some: Pivot. Pivot on dates for an event. Pivot on location. Pivot on fan capacity, health screening, streaming needs. Pivot on the way that things have been done in the business for […]

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Japan US Soccer
U.S. defender Becky Sauerbrunn (4), forward Lynn Williams (13) and teammates acknowledge fans after a 3-1 win over Japan in a SheBelieves Cup match on March 11, 2020, in Frisco, Texas. (AP Photo/Jeffrey McWhorter)

U.S. Women’s National Team to Play in Colorado and Utah

The U.S. women’s national soccer team has announced matches against Colombia in June at Commerce City, Colorado, and Sandy, Utah. The first match will take place on June 25 at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado before the team travel to Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah on June 28. The games will […]

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Spartan

Spartan to Hold 2022 World Championship in Abu Dhabi

Spartan has announced that its 2022 World Championship will return to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, from December 2–4 with athletes facing a challenging new course in Al Wathba. This is the second year that Abu Dhabi will host the Spartan World Championship. The course features desert terrain with vast sand dune trails. The best […]

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James Hahn, Scott Piercy
The playing group of James Hahn, Stephen Reyes, Scott Piercy and Jin Roy Ryu makes its way down to the seventh green of the Pebble Beach Golf Links during the second round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am golf tournament Friday, Feb. 7, 2020, in Pebble Beach, California. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

USGA Awards Eight Major Championships to Pebble Beach

One of the most iconic golf courses in the United States will have eight major championships scheduled in the future as part of a new partnership with the United States Golf Association. Pebble Beach Golf Links will host four future U.S. Opens (2027, 2032, 2037 and 2044) as well as four future U.S. Women’s Opens […]

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