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Like many great businesses, Rent Like a Champion started out as an entirely different sort of enterprise. Mike Doyle had helped create a company in South Bend, Indiana, focused on student housing near Notre Dame University. With a fairly large inventory to rent to students, Doyle was regularly left with a few vacant properties each […]
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Now that South Carolina is back in the mix for NCAA events, the city of Greenville has put on its game face. Daytona Beach is known internationally as home of the Daytona 500, but the Florida city is racing to attract new events. In Virginia, Fairfax County will soon be home to a massive new […]
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In 2014, Manchester United defeated Real Madrid 3-1 at Michigan Stadium before 109,316 fans. It was the largest crowd in U.S. soccer history. Two years later, Real Madrid returned to the fabled Big House in Ann Arbor for another International Champions Cup match, this time defeating Chelsea 3-2 before 105,826. It was the second-largest soccer […]
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The new National Soccer Hall of Fame in Frisco, Texas, will house more than 400 historical artifacts celebrating the sport, but it aims to be more than a traditional museum when it opens in October. “My initial vision for the project was to change the perception of the National Soccer Hall of Fame…
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The 2018 USA Weightlifting Nike American Open Series 3 will be held at the Westgate Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada, September 13–16. The event is part of the American Open Series with competition opportunities for youth-, senior- and master-aged athletes. The series allows both medals to be won at the single event and to compete for a series championship to be awarded at the finals in December. The competition provides the final opportunity to qualify for the 2018 IWF World Championships & Olympic Qualification Event in Lima, Peru, in November.
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If the Pac-12 Conference is looking for a good year to make a statement in the College Football Playoff, this is it. The 2019 championship game will be played January 7 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, in the heart of Pac-12 country, giving the conference an opportunity to change its luck on home […]
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One of the biggest challenges in sports is keeping participation growing at the grass-roots level. This is especially true of long-established sports like tennis. While the retro appeal of tennis whites at a private club is celebrated each year at Wimbledon, many people—especially younger people—are not drawn to that experience. But they are drawn to […]
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The United States Olympic Committee has announced that Larry Probst will step down as chair of the board at the end of the 2018 and will be succeeded Susanne Lyons. Lyons is a member of the USOC’s board and served as the USOC’s interim CEO from February 28–August 20, until Sarah Hirshland was appointed CEO in July. Lyons will begin her four-year […]
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As sports betting prepares to take off, the CEO of the Sport Integrity Global Alliance is leading an effort to safeguard competition on the field. The recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that paved the way for legalized sports wagering will have profound impacts on the sports industry in the United States. Among the many concerns as sports organizations, betting regulators and host cities navigate the new landscape is how to protect the integrity of the competition on the field, which may be ripe for corruption or match-fixing when more money is at stake on the game. Leagues have also expressed an interest in collecting an “integrity fee”—a portion of the bets placed to help them monitor these issues—which has its own challenges. Fortunately, the Geneva-based Sport Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA)…
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Mike Malach has been hired to serve as the first full-time executive director of the Ann Arbor Sports Commission, a division of…
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