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Engaging Volunteers: A Case Study from Gulf Shores & Orange Beach Sports Commission

Engaging Volunteers: A Case Study from Gulf Shores & Orange Beach Sports Commission

While athletes provide the on-field action and spectators provide the cheers, it’s the volunteers who can provide the behind-the-scenes power to make ...

Call of Duty: Gamers Take on U.S. Army Boot Camp

Call of Duty: Gamers Take on U.S. Army Boot Camp

Esports continues to challenge the old stereotype of gamers as sedentary slobs who lack real-world involvement. In fact, its newest foray takes them f...

Too Often Unnoticed, Playgrounds Pose Extreme Heat Danger

Too Often Unnoticed, Playgrounds Pose Extreme Heat Danger

Plenty is written about keeping young athletes from overheating. But right beside the sports fields is something that can pose an equally grave danger...

2020 Tokyo Olympics Will Ban Fans from Posting Videos on Social Media

2020 Tokyo Olympics Will Ban Fans from Posting Videos on Social Media

Have Tokyo 2020 organizers gone too far? They’re banning those who attend the Games from posting video or audio recordings online – unless permission ...

Hotels and Housing: How to Get a Win

Hotels and Housing: How to Get a Win

When negotiating hotel contracts and setting up room blocks is your livelihood, you tend to be comfortable with it. For those who don’t do it often or...

Defying the Odds, World Combat Games Scheduled for 2021

Defying the Odds, World Combat Games Scheduled for 2021

Could the World Combat Games be back in the fight? The on-again/off-again multi-sport event featuring boxing, wrestling and martial arts has been in o...

Will News of Deaths on Everest Affect Climbing Tourism in the U.S.?

Will News of Deaths on Everest Affect Climbing Tourism in the U.S.?

The picture showed a long line of climbers winding like a bizarre crocodile across icy ridges, trying to summit Everest. Not only would all of them no...

Louisiana Law Gives Jail Time for Yelling at Youth Sports Officials

Louisiana Law Gives Jail Time for Yelling at Youth Sports Officials

A brand-new Louisiana law makes harassing a ref on the scholastic or rec level a crime punishable by up to 90 days in jail. And the offender has to un...

Mixed-Use Developments Are Increasingly Anchored by Stadiums

Mixed-Use Developments Are Increasingly Anchored by Stadiums

Here’s a new development trend, for those keeping track: increasingly, when there are mixed-use developments (an area where there is retail, office sp...

Risk Management: Don't Let it be an Afterthought

Risk Management: Don't Let it be an Afterthought

Risk management can easily scare event owners and facility managers alike when it comes to sports events. As a result, it’s often left until the last ...