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Palm Beach County Convention Center Hosts First Basketball Tournament

The Palm Beach County Convention Center hosted the first basketball tournament held inside the venue when Balling on the Beach, a youth event with over 300 middle school teams, as part of a partnership with Iconic Creative Agency. Balling on the Beach took place at four South Florida venues with the entirety of the middle […]

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Louisville Sports Commission Launches Community Grant Program

The Louisville Sports Commission in Kentucky has helped launch a grant program for youth sports that the organization hopes could become a national model for other destinations in the future. The sports commission will partner with Gill Holland, the Sociable Weaver Foundation and the Humana Foundation on the effort that will be named the SportsFun(d). The […]

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SoccerPlex

Venues Planning for Summer of Recovery

Venues that regularly host youth and amateur sports events have had a hard time in the past year-plus of the pandemic, trying to keep expenses down with no revenue coming in and knowing that there were still things that could not be ignored. But when there is little activity at a venue, looking at things […]

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FieldhouseUSA Opens Columbus Location

FieldhouseUSA has opened its latest complex, a state-of-the-art 90,000 square foot facility at Polaris Fashion Place in Columbus, Ohio, that will offer a variety of sporting activities. The new complex includes eight hardwood volleyball courts that can be converted to five basketball courts as well as year-round play for both basketball and volleyball. It will also […]

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TeamSnap Adds to Management Team

TeamSnap, which provides sports management and communication software for amateur sports organizations, has added to its executive team, hiring Brian Caulfield as chief operating officer and Nicole McCormack as general manager of advertising and commerce. The moves come on the heels of the company’s announcement of a strategic partnership that gave Waud Capital majority ownership […]

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LiveBarn Streaming Service Secures Financial Investment

LiveBarn, a subscription-based streaming service for amateur and youth sports, has announced a new investment from Susquehanna Growth Equity, LLC, a growth equity firm focused on internet, software, and information services companies, to support the company’s future growth. The Montreal-based LiveBarn provides live and on-demand broadcasting of amateur and youth sporting events. Through its patented […]

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TOCA

TOCA Plans Tennessee Venue Within Sports Complex

TOCA Football, Inc., a technology-enabled soccer experience company, will open its first Tennessee location in the greater Nashville area. Launching May 15, the indoor soccer center known as TOCA Nashville will be located within the TOA Sports Performance Center in Franklin, Tennessee. The 171,000 square-foot sports complex serves as the home for some of the […]

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Wilmington Sports Complex Gets Naming Rights Sponsor

The Wilmington City Council in North Carolina has approved a $1.3 million title sponsorship agreement with nCino Inc., a Wilmington-based company that specializes in financial technology, for naming rights to a public sports complex scheduled to be completed this fall that would be one of the largest in the state. The Cape Fear Soccer Park […]

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Meijer President & CEO Rick Keyes (photo credit – Meijer)
Meijer President and CEO Rick Keyes discussed the recent agreement with the West Michigan Sports Commission. Photo: Courtesy of Meijer

West Michigan Sports Commission Continues Relationship with Meijer

The West Michigan Sports Commission has reached a new 10-year partnership with Meijer to serve as the naming rights partner of the WMSC’s baseball/softball complex in Rockford, Michigan. The venue will now be called the Meijer SportsComplex. “Meijer has been a loyal partner of the WMSC for more than a decade, and this naming rights […]

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