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ARTICLE Apr 11, 2024
Get your BID On: WBSC's International Baseball and Softball Events
The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has unveiled a new events bidding calendar, outlining the top WBSC tournaments, providing opportunities for cities and organizers around the world to w...
ARTICLE Mar 14, 2024
With $1 Billion in Economic Impact on the Line, Cities Welcome ‘Ring of Fire’
If the emails aren’t hitting your inbox like asteroids, you need to check your Internet connection. The big celestial event, the total solar eclipse, is finally here and destinations have come up with...
ARTICLE Mar 01, 2024
As Race Cheaters Proliferate, So Do Safeguards (and Watchdogs)
No matter what the competition, people want to win. And unfortunately, they’ll sometimes take almost any route to ensure they do, even if it’s illegal. Most recently, headlines were made when a school...
ARTICLE Feb 29, 2024
Sports Tourism, Bigfoot and the Rise of Cryptid Travel
For those in the right areas, it’s a big hairy deal. Nationwide, cryptid tourism (defined as the pursuit of something not yet proven to exist, like Bigfoot, Mothman, the Skunk Ape or the Boggy Creek S...
ARTICLE Jan 19, 2024
Olympic Esports Games Coming into Focus as Potential Bidders Materialize
Who will be bidding to host the first-ever Olympic Esports Games in 2026? Hard to know as it’s still early days yet but one country has spoken up. Organizing esports has been on the IOC's agenda for t...
ARTICLE Jan 08, 2024
Get Your BID On: Move United Seeks Host City for 2025 Education Conference
Move United, the national leader in community-based sports and recreation for individuals with disabilities, seeks a strong host city for its spring 2025 conference for 350+ sports professionals and p...
ARTICLE Jan 05, 2024
North by Northeast
Indoors or out, the Northeast offers a land of opportunity for sports event organizers. Here are seven specifically curated destinations found in the upper-right corner of the U.S. map that are worthy...
ARTICLE Jan 05, 2024
PWHL Stands to Score Change, Drawing More Girls into Ice Hockey
More than 25 years after women’s ice hockey made its Olympic debut, the puck dropped for the first time at the Professional Women's Hockey League. After several attempts, women have a paying hockey le...
ARTICLE Jan 03, 2024
Browsing New Sites, From the Comfort of Your Own Office
While it is really more aimed at leisure travelers, the promo that starts out with, “Wanna Get Away?” applies to anyone who travels on sports business as well. Nothing breathes new life into a tournam...
ARTICLE Dec 09, 2023
More People Signing Up (and Lining Up) for Marathons
More people are signing up for (and lining up for) marathons, not just in the USA but worldwide. That’s downright astonishing news, considering news outlets just a year ago were saying road racing had...
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