NCAA Pulls Seven Championships From North Carolina
The NCAA has announced it will relocate seven previously awarded championship events from…
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Tim Schneider: Publisher’s Post
In March of 2015, I was in Washington, D.C., for an event organized by the U.S. Travel Association and Destination Marketing…
Frank Supovitz: Ask The Event Doctor
SportsTravel’s Event Doctor discusses the importance of the athlete experience and what organizers want most in a host…
Bob Latham: Winners And Losers
Just like the stages of grief, an Olympiad seems to go through four phases before, during and after the…
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Joe De Sena
Joe De Sena has been an entrepreneur almost from the beginning, selling fireworks at age 8, building a pool-cleaning business and later founding a Wall Street trading firm. But his true passion was in health and fitness, and adventure racing specifically. After competing in dozens of long-distance races, he founded Spartan Race in 2010. The obstacle race series separated itself from the pack by timing participants and treating the experience as a legitimate sport, one with a potential future at the Olympic Games. Today, the Reebok Spartan Race offers 3-, 8- and 12-mile events that together attract more than 1 million participants annually across 170 events in 28 countries, including races in Europe and Asia.In this interview with SportsTravel’s Jason Gewirtz…
Continue ReadingDallas Sports Festival
Between bouts, boxers wandered around and watched volleyball players hammering down spikes. Fencers observed a very different form of combat in the boxing ring. Young volleyball players caught glimpses of their Olympic heroes. Until the very last day, when all but a few fencers had left, the second Dallas Sports Festival had met or exceeded every expectation…
Boxing Rolls With the Punches By Greg Mellen Every few years, someone comes along claiming that boxing is down for the count. That someone will cite the rise of mixed martial arts, a lack of network television exposure, an inherent brutality, or the decline of homegrown stars in the sport. There are always those ready […]
Continue ReadingOn Serve in the Mid-Atlantic By Karen Robes Meeks American historian Frederick Jackson Turner saw the Mid-Atlantic as a kind of prototype for what would become the modern United States. The region’s harbors were entryways to waves of European immigrants settling here and creating the international diversity that now defines the region. Today that international […]
Continue ReadingWorld Cup Reboot
Twelve years since its last international tournament, the National Hockey League will head to hockey-mad Toronto for the third installment of the World Cup of Hockey, an event that could help determine the league’s future direction in international competition. Set for September 17 to October 1, this latest version of the World Cup will be […]
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AEG and ESL Form Long-Term Deal To Broaden Esports
AEG and eSports company ESL have announced a strategic long-term global partnership that will align…
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