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Coming Soon: SDM’s 2025 Champions of Economic Impact in Sports Tourism Awards

We already know that sports tourism is a $114 billion-plus industry and everyone reading this has helped build that number. Don’t you want some recogn...

The benefits of youth sports facilities are well-known. However, as communities become increasingly landlocked, finding space for them has become difficult. One solution has been the repurposing of brownfield sites (defined as property that has had previous use, often as an industrial area). The process can be challenging but the rewards are great.

Everything Brown is Green Again: Changing Industrial Sites into Sports Venues

The benefits of youth sports facilities are well-known. However, as communities become increasingly landlocked, finding space for them continues to be...

Los Angeles Approves “Olympic Wage” Raise for Hospitality Workers

Los Angeles Approves “Olympic Wage” Raise for Hospitality Workers

When the Los Angeles City Council approved updates to the Living Wage and Hotel Workers Minimum Wage ordinances, effectively increasing the minimum wa...

New MLB-Funded Softball League Steps Up to the Plate

New MLB-Funded Softball League Steps Up to the Plate

The National Basketball Association has the WNBA and now, Major League Baseball has the AUSL — the Athletes Unlimited Softball League. It’s a new bran...

: Both teams in the 2017 Congressional Baseball Game for Charity posed for a photo. Image courtesy of repmobrooks, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Now Taking the Field (for a Good Cause): Democrats vs. Republicans

It happens every year in Washington, D.C. It pits Democrats against Republicans. It’s conducted in broad daylight in a big venue. It’s open to the pub...

Here’s an initiative that should grow legs (or perhaps wings). A new program at Ontario International Airport allows passengers going through security, who have packed items that can’t travel (like full-size bottles of sunscreen or shampoo), to place them in a special receptacle for collection by USO volunteers for donation to service members.

An Airport Initiative, “Oops for Troops,” Could Grow Wings

Here’s an initiative that should grow legs (or perhaps wings). A new program at Ontario International Airport allows passengers going through security...

Flag Football Gets Recommendation to Join NCAA Emerging Sports for Women

Flag Football Gains Yardage at NCAA, High School Levels

NCAA women’s sports are making 2025 the year they don’t take no for an answer. Recently, the NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics made a recommendation...

Boost in Sports Equipment Sales Heralds Positive Forecast for Industry

Boost in Sports Equipment Sales Heralds Positive Forecast for Industry

The overused term is “perfect storm,” a confluence of factors that creates a rare outcome. And right now, that’s what’s going on with sales of sports ...

NFL Players Get their Wish: To (Maybe) be Walk-Ons for LA 2028

NFL Players Get their Wish: To (Maybe) Play in LA 2028

The NFL is getting its wish: Its players are allowed to play men’s flag football in the Summer Games in 2028. Sort of. Players can try out for the tea...

Travel Sports Wins Big with Right to Play Act

Travel Sports Score Big Win with Precedent-Setting Right to Play Act

The travel sports industry just scored a major victory. In Illinois, high school student athletes, who previously were unable to participate in non-sc...