Bringing a Message of Hope, Refugee Olympic Team Will Compete at 2020 Games
The feel-good story of the 2020 Olympics is again about a team that lacks both a flag to walk behind and a country to represent. They’re the Refugee O...
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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...
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...
NFL Stadium Security Facing Tests on Multiple Levels – Will it Affect Event Owners?
Intense NFL rivalries — coupled with stadium fights and a lawsuit filed by an assaulted Dallas Cowboy fan — have placed increased attention on game-da...
Runners Race to Join Virtual Marathon Craze
The desire to run in the 2019 New York City Marathon motivated 500 runners to participate in their own 26.2-mile “virtual” marathons (no treadmills al...
Concussion Round-Up: Latest Developments Event Owners Should Know About CTE Issues
From a new report by the American Academy of Pediatrics to groundbreaking research linking repeated concussions to suicidal behavior later in life, th...
Amazon’s Expansions: What Can Two New HQ Cities Mean to Sports Tourism?
The announcement that Amazon has selected two cities – Long Island City, New York, and Arlington, Virginia – to split its HQ2 dropped like a bomb on t...