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Rocky Top Sports World, along with Sports Facilities Companies, has chosen Doug Grote to be the new general manager of the 80-acre multi-sports facility in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Grote began his new position on January 23. “I have been in sports and recreation for over 20 years and Rocky Top Sports World is known in the […]
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Boeing has entered into a separate agreement with ASM Global to rename the Tech Port Center + Arena, a 130,000-square-foot multipurpose exhibition center in San Antonio, as the Boeing Center at Tech Port as part of a new partnership between Boeing and the Kelly Heritage Foundation, an educational nonprofit organization affiliated with Port San Antonio, […]
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One of the biggest airline carriers in the United States is bringing back one of its most well-known sports marketing deals as Delta Airlines and the Utah Jazz announced this weekend that the NBA franchise’s home will be called The Delta Center starting in the summer of 2023. The naming rights deal is a return […]
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Lake Placid, the little village of 8,000 in the Adirondacks region of New York, has a special place in the heart of all winter sports enthusiasts. It is, of course, home to the “Miracle on Ice” in 1980, let alone the almost super-human exploits of Eric Heiden winning five speedskating gold medals. One of the […]
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The Holiday Bowl was in a bind. Known as one of the most entertaining games of bowl season, it was looking for a new home, knowing the demolition of Qualcomm Stadium had been scheduled. So over coffee in 2018, organizers of the bowl game and one of the city’s professional franchises started talking. And next […]
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USL Championship franchise Phoenix Rising FC will deconstruct its stadium and move it across the city after the Phoenix City Council approved the team’s lease of land for the new stadium site and training facility on the other side of town. For the past two years, Phoenix Rising FC has played its home matches at […]
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The home for the Atlantic League’s Charleston Dirty Birds in West Virginia will have a new name as GoMart Ballpark will take effect starting with the 2023 season to start a 10-year deal. The stadium has been named Appalachian Power Park since its inception in 2005. It was home to the South Atlantic League’s West […]
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ASM Global has named Gary Jacobus as president, business development, to oversee the company’s expanding business development and account-retention footprint across the Americas. Jacobus was an architect of the growth of the NFL’s global marketing partnerships program and has headed IMG’s global sports and entertainment corporate consulting division. During his tenure with the NBA, he […]
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KemperSports has named Steve Goris as its new senior vice president of KemperSports Venues while Jeremy Goldblatt has been promoted to chief operating officer at KemperSports. Goris will oversee the strategy, growth and operations for KemperSports’ new business unit dedicated to a portfolio of youth sports and recreation facilities. Most recently, Goris served as senior […]
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The renovated venue in Baltimore scheduled to open in February 2023 will be called CFG Bank Arena after a multi-year naming rights agreement announced Monday by Oak View Group and CFG Bank, which is headquartered in the city. In addition to securing naming rights to the arena, CFG Bank’s agreement includes prominent exterior and interior […]
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