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For the first time, the National Senior Games Association will allow athletes over 50 years old to enter to compete in the National Senior Games without having to qualify from other competitions. The move was made following the cancellation or postponement of a significant portion of qualifying events because of the pandemic in advance of […]
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Athletes Unlimited will hold its second women’s volleyball season starting March 16 at the Fair Park Coliseum in Dallas with fans in attendance for the first time after the inaugural season was held without fans because of the pandemic. The season will run for five weeks through April 16. In addition, the first 24 players […]
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Less than six months after it hosted a delayed Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games without any fans, Japan may somewhat unexpectedly be getting back into the business of hosting one of the world’s biggest sporting events. A committee in Sapporo is expected to release a revised bid for the 2030 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, […]
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The Spanish city of Valencia will be the host of the 2026 Gay Games after the Federation of Gay Games held its annual general assembly in Brighton, England, completing a two-year bid process that saw record applicants even in the midst of the pandemic. This 12th Gay Games to head to Spain for the first […]
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The International Cricket Council may give the Twenty20 World Cup in 2024 to a joint bid between USA Cricket and Cricket West Indies, a major victory for the national governing bid for the sport that has been publicly campaigning recently for inclusion in the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games in Los Angeles. The Sydney […]
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The NCAA intends to expand the bracket sizes for its National Collegiate Beach Volleyball and Women’s Ice Hockey championships. The move came after a decision by the Division I Competition Oversight Committee that will be forwarded for a formal vote. The move for the Beach Volleyball Committee to double in size — to 16 teams from […]
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With about 90 days to go until the start of that 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, organizers said they are continuing to work out logistics such as limited flights into China for stakeholders and have yet to establish capacity limits for Chinese spectators as they wait to see how COVID rates may affect those […]
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The XFL and its ownership group have announced a new group of executives that have been hired to lead the new version of the upstart football league owned by Dany Garcia, Dwayne Johnson and RedBird Capital Partners. The league intends to return to play in 2023. Joining the leadership team are several former NFL executives, […]
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SailGP has hired Ben Johnson as senior vice president of strategy and commercial development with a goal of increasing the sailing series’ presence in North America to support the league’s global expansion. In the role, Johnson will lead Sail GP’s North American expansion across broadcast and digital rights, commercial partners, agency relationships, and venues and […]
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After offering an online summer camp last year, Cloud9 Esports will evolve its Training Grounds youth development initiative into an afterschool program in partnership with tennis great Serena Williams. Cloud9 launched Training Grounds to nurture the next generation of players in esports. A program for middle and high schools, Training Grounds emphasizes the values of […]
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