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High Schools Saving Football with Eight-Player Teams, Leagues

High Schools Saving Football with Eight-Player Teams, Leagues

While the doom and gloom report in early September of the decline in 11-player football had a lot of event owners concerned, there is actually a brigh...

Legislation Could Protect Coaches from Vindictive Parents

Legislation Could Protect Coaches from Vindictive Parents

Protecting high school coaches from being fired for not making unpopular decisions – like not putting a school board member’s child into the game ofte...

How to Effectively Leverage Mobile Apps for Event Planning

How to Effectively Leverage Mobile Apps for Event Planning

Mobile apps have revolutionized sports events, allowing individuals to do everything from register to take follow-up evaluations. However, before choo...

Football: What’s Happening on the Field and Behind the Scenes

Football: What’s Happening on the Field and Behind the Scenes

Much has been written about football and most recently, that coverage has been all about whether it’s growing and whether it’s safe. Keith Noll, natio...

Faked Out: Bogus Sponsorship Deals Plaguing Event Industry

Faked Out: Bogus Sponsorship Deals Plaguing Event Industry

As if it weren’t challenging enough to gain sponsorship for tournaments, event owners are now being faced with a new problem: keeping local businesses...

Seeing the Light: When Sports Venue Lighting Creates Problems in Neighborhoods

Seeing the Light: When Sports Venue Lighting Creates Problems in Neighborhoods

Cities want to leverage fields and stadiums to attract sports tourism. But as the arms race to build better facilities and improve current ones heats ...

USA Football Announces Inaugural National Flag Football Championship in 2020

USA Football Announces Inaugural National Flag Football Championship in 2020

At almost the same time a pubic service announcement was equating youth tackle football with encouraging children to smoke cigarettes, USA Football an...

PSA Paints Football as Being as Dangerous to Kids as Letting them Smoke

PSA Paints Football as Being as Dangerous to Kids as Letting them Smoke

A public service announcement, aimed at keeping youth athletes out of tackle football, compares the sport to encouraging children to smoke. Not to be ...

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Inside Events: The National Small College Rugby Organization

Rugby is a sport that is gaining prominence at both the collegiate and club level. One of its drivers is the National Small College Rugby Organization...

One Year Out, REAL ID Act Already Presenting Real Problems for Sports

One Year Out, REAL ID Act Already Presenting Real Problems for Sports

Sometimes, it’s INH2MS (It’ll Never Happen to Me Syndrome). Sometimes, it’s a lack of basic awareness. But less than a year away from the October 1, 2...