Breaking News, Podcasts and Analysis Serving People who Organize, Manage and Host Sports Events
Fans of baseball and of baseball history have had much to feast upon this MLB season. In particular, the American League MVP choice between Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge presents a fascinating debate for fans of old-school baseball, new-school baseball and unheard-of-before baseball. By focusing on Ohtani and Judge, I mean no disrespect to Albert […]
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One score and five years ago, the founders of SportsTravel brought forth a publication conceived from a passion for sports and dedicated to the proposition that sports-related travel is a worthy endeavor. As if I needed confirmation of that, the 25th anniversary of SportsTravel — which is also my 16th anniversary as a columnist — […]
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In the days since the passing of the legendary John Madden, well-deserved tributes and colorful stories have proliferated. It has been uplifting to read them all. But there may be one question that a younger generation — one that is familiar with Madden only as the namesake of the Madden NFL video game — is […]
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The Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics will be discussed and debated for years to come — whether they should have taken place at all, and the costs (in all respects) versus the benefits. The financial and health consequences of the Games are very real and will likely take a while to measure. However, going eight […]
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We survived for more than a year without sports — and more particularly, sporting events — as we used to know them. We first had to learn to live without any live sports at all. Then, largely with the help of the NBA, we became accustomed to watching live sports on TV from empty stadiums, […]
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On December 2, the No. 8-ranked Michigan State basketball team traveled to Durham, North Carolina, to play No. 6-ranked Duke at fan-less Cameron Indoor. Winless in his previous three games at Duke while coaching Michigan State, Tom Izzo and the Spartans came away with a 75-69 victory. Even though the venue was devoid of the […]
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I love sports, I enjoy travel and I enjoy traveling for sports. While I and other inveterate sports travelers endure this pandemic, I have been looking forward to a day when sports-related travel would again dot my calendar. However, in a serendipitous and mountain-coming-to-Muhammad moment, sports-related travel came to me. The announcement by Major League […]
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As of this writing, it has been a remarkable September for sports viewing. Somewhat sadly, it has not been the in-person variety that I and most readers of this magazine prefer, but rather the stay-at-home, make-the-most-of-it sports viewing that is consistent with our current mode of life. Nevertheless, we have been treated to, among other […]
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When the plug was suddenly pulled on live sports in North America on March 12, those of us who thrive on a steady diet of real-time sports could not know that it would be until May 16 — when four PGA golfers played a socially distanced skins game and NASCAR returned to the track in […]
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A Quentin Tarantino film is bound to generate some degree of controversy. With his epic “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” Tarantino has this time touched a nerve in the world of sports. I will not drop any spoilers in this column so feel free to keep reading even if you haven’t seen the film. […]
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