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Sports Organizers Promoting the Daylights Out of Solar Eclipse

Sports Organizers Promoting the Daylights Out of Solar Eclipse

The solar eclipse is less than 10 days away, and sports event organizers are in overdrive, offering promotional tie-ins. Here’s an update on the lates...

Hiring Gen Z: What Event Owners Need to Know Now

Hiring Gen Z: What Event Owners Need to Know Now

Waiting tables. Lifeguarding. Babysitting. Teen jobs used to come in predictable shapes and sizes. These days, they’re likely to take a very different...

U.S., Canada and Mexico Kick Off Campaign to Secure 2026 World Cup

U.S., Canada and Mexico Kick Off Campaign to Secure 2026 World Cup

Maybe in all the back-and-forth over the 2024 (and 2028) Olympics, you forgot about this one: the 2026 World Cup. But the U.S., Canada and Mexico's Un...

Camping Continues to Gain Favor as a Lodging Alternative for Sports Travel

Camping Continues to Gain Favor as a Lodging Alternative for Sports Travel

As youth sports participation continues to grow, so do lodging costs. Camping is fast becoming a solution, though parents and kids aren’t ready to giv...

Youth Sports End of Season Celebrations: Entertainment Mainstay Presents Increasing...

Youth Sports End of Season Celebrations: Entertainment Mainstay Presents Increasing Liability

We’re in the season of late-summer parties to close out youth swim teams, sports camps, rec programs, softball, baseball and more, just before the bac...

NCAA Tells Officials to Shorten All In-Game Delays

NCAA Tells Officials to Shorten All In-Game Delays

Keep it short. That’s the message NCAA is giving its officials when it comes to games. That means we can expect to see 20-minute football halftimes th...

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Inside Events: The International Mind Sports Association

This is not your high school chess club. With six international federations representing mind sports including Bridge, Go, Mahjong, Draughts, Xiangqi ...

WalletHub Ranks the 100 Best Cities for Recreation

WalletHub Ranks the 100 Best Cities for Recreation

If participants in your events like to turn tournaments into stay-cations and take advantage of the host city’s recreational opportunities, a new surv...

Travel Ban to North Korea the Latest Blow to United Image PyeongChang 2018 Wants to...

Travel Ban to North Korea the Latest Blow to United Image PyeongChang 2018 Wants to Project

PyeongChang, South Korea, is open for business, but a U.S. travel ban to North Korea illustrates the unresolved tensions in that part of the world. It...

Can a New International Executive Put Lacrosse Back in the Olympics?

Can a New International Executive Put Lacrosse Back in the Olympics?

It wouldn’t be the first time a sport made it into the Olympics after more than a century’s absence. Lacrosse, the fastest-growing team sport in Ameri...