Desperate Teams Call for Desperate Measures
Desperate teams call for desperate measures. After the Tampa Bay Buccaneers drew the smallest crowd since 2010 to a home game against the 49ers, the B...
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Marriott Hack: Steps Planners Can Take (and Pass on to Athletes and Families) to Address Problems
Unless you’ve been living in a missile silo, you’ve heard the news of a long-running (though just discovered) Marriott data breach that compromised th...
Instructing Outdoor Sports Enthusiasts in the School of Rocks
Stacking stones? Creating totems? Try: spreading graffiti. National parks are reporting an uptick of vandalism – and the odd part is, most visitors do...
Flag Football Participation is Booming
Participation numbers may be down in high school football, but that doesn’t mean the sport is on its deathbed. The number of 6- to 12-year-olds playin...
Lacrosse Takes a Big Step toward the Olympics
Good news out of the IOC: three sports have provisional Olympic recognition. Even better news, at least for the U.S. where the sport is wildly popular...
When Cheaters Enter Marathons, Internet Sleuths Are Right on their Heels
Officials with China’s Shenzhen Half Marathon punished 258 runners who were caught cheating during the Nov. 25 race. Violators included 18 participant...
Should a Polio-Like Virus Concern Youth Sports Event Owners?
The words and phrases being tossed around are dire: Serious childhood illness. Paralysis. Unknown origin. And this combination: spiking in occurrence,...
Cuing Up its Campaign, Snooker Heads to the Bargaining Table for the 2024 Olympics in Paris
It’s known for bringing big-money tournaments to cities nationwide and being played in bars and basements everywhere. It’s fun, easy to learn and acce...
Spring Training Ballparks Becoming the Four-Season Athletes of the Venue World
The ballparks best known for hosting MLB play for six weeks before teams head back to their home stadiums are staying busier than ever the rest of the...
‘Print at Home’ Tickets Creating New Counterfeiting Concerns
Printing your boarding card for flights? Great idea. Printing your sports ticket? Not so much, according to Ohio State University, which had to elimin...