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Cricket

The USA is Co-Host of a Cricket World Cup - Will It Launch the Sport Here?

The international cricket community hopes a recent successful bid, in conjunction with Cricket West Indies, to host the 2024 T20 World Cup in the USA ...

Soccer

Destinations Winding Up the Spin Cycle to Host 2026 World Cup Games

We still don’t have the final announcement (FIFA! How long will this take?) but that hasn’t stopped candidate cities nationwide from winding up the sp...

Gymnastics

Up for Bid: USA Gymnastics National Events

Destinations with indoor facilities have the opportunity to vault into national prominence by hosting one or more of USA Gymnastics’ signature events....

Youth Sports

Nationwide, Efforts to Expand Access to Youth Sports

Sports are BACK and cities want kids to get back in the game. As a result, there has been a plethora of initiatives to expand access to youth sports, ...

Softball

Inside Events: Sunflower Summer Collegiate Softball League

The Sunflower Summer Collegiate Softball League (SSL), a new opportunity for college athletes to hone and showcase their skills, takes the field in Ju...

Prison Games

Beyond “The Longest Yard:” Prison Sports Programs Enrich Inmates

Maybe all you know about sports in prison was learned from watching the classic 1970s Burt Reynolds movie, The Longest Yard (and what critics called i...

College Football

By the Numbers: College Football National Championship Game

College football season has closed the books on another season – and what a season it was, filled with upsets and surprises and even a few emerging st...

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Inside Events: The National Collegiate Acrobatics & Tumbling Association

The fast-growing sport of collegiate acrobatics and tumbling (it’s on the NCAA’s list of Emerging Sports for Women) is governed by the National Colleg...

Event Owners

New Study Documents Challenges Facing Event Operators

What can a snapshot view of the running event industry, told from the point of race directors, teach us about sports management as a whole? Quite a bi...

NIL in Conway

Conway Becomes First CVB to Sign College Students to NIL Agreements

When the Conway, Arkansas Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) announced plans to sign student athletes from the University of Central Arkansas to “Name...