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San Antonio Esports Venue to Host Overwatch League Opener

The fifth season of the Overwatch League will begin with the league’s first in-person event in North America since 2020 when the Houston Outlaws face the Dallas Fuel at the new Tech Port Arena in San Antonio. The Battle for Texas rivalry match will be held May 6 and will be the first public OWL match […]

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The Next Generation of Sports Entertainment: OTT Tools for Live Sports Venues

Sports inspire passions all over the globe, particularly as the world comes out of COVID lockdowns. The return of live sports in front of fans also lifts viewership and more ways for fans to stay attached to favorite teams, athletes and leagues. But much like avid watchers of television sitcoms and dramas have altered the […]

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What to Watch for at the Beijing Winter Olympics

Between the controversies surrounding the host to a pandemic still ongoing after two years, there has never been an Olympic Winter and Paralympic Games like this. In the Olympic coverage preceding this year’s Games, very little of it has been focused on the athletes. Even NBC has been downgrading some of its ratings guarantees to […]

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What it Sounds Like Inside the 2021 Olympics Venues

What if you held an Olympic Games and no one came? That’s not exactly the scenario in Tokyo, but it certainly feels that way. It’s not that people wouldn’t have come, of course. It’s that they weren’t allowed. Foreign spectators were banned months ago while Japanese residents learned weeks before the Games they wouldn’t be […]

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How Sports Betting is Changing the
Game for Destinations and Venues

The U.S. Supreme Court has had more than a passing influence in the world of sports. Whether it was the 1972 Curt Flood case that upheld Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption, a 1984 antitrust case involving the NCAA that allowed conferences to sell their own TV rights and paved the way for gigantic media rights […]

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Three More Competition Venues Announced for The World Games 2022

The Birmingham Organizing Committee has announced the next three competition venues for the 2022 World Games; Sloss Furnaces, Birmingham-Southern College and Avondale Park, ahead of the event that will take place in Alabama from July 7–17 with an anticipated 3,600 athletes. “We’re excited to announce this next round of venues for The Games,” World Games […]

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The Evolution of Esports Venues

When Esports Stadium Arlington opened in 2018 in Texas, it marked the dawn of a new era for esports and live events. The first esports-specific venue at a municipally owned building—a renovation of the city’s convention center—it marked a landmark in the evolution of esports and the facilities that could support live esports events. Before […]

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Spring 2023 Digital Edition

Read the Spring 2023 digital edition of SportsTravel! This issue takes a deep dive around the sports industry with features on the growing sport of pickleball throughout the United States, the continued attraction of in-person esports events, the return of spring training baseball without pandemic-related restrictions and much more, including a profile on the sport […]

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