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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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Amazon Armed Forces Cycling Classic and A.S.O. Announce Strategic Collaboration

The Amazon Armed Forces Cycling Classic, a major cycling event in the Washington D.C. region for more than 25 years, has announced a strategic collaboration with French mass participation events company Amaury Sport Organisation. A.S.O. organizes the Tour de France among a number of international cycling events, including La Vuelta, the Lidl Deutschland Tour and […]

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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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(Credit: International Olympic Committee)

JPMorganChase Named First Global Banking Partner of Olympic Games

The International Olympic Committee and JPMorganChase have announced a significant partnership that will make the latter the first Global Banking Partner in the history of the Olympic Games. The partnership will include both the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games (LA28) and the French Alps 2030 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. “JPMorganChase is the […]

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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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