Tax Day and Easter Mean Big Returns for Sports Events
Here come Peter Cottontail AND the tax man… with planners of sports events not far behind, ready to make money on novelty tie-ins. With April 15 fall...
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IOC Warns Pyeongchang 2018 to Move Forward or Risk Harming Image of Games
It wouldn’t be a countdown to the Olympics without political drama, and without the host city declaring all was well regardless. Case in point: Pyeong...
North Carolina Repeals HB2 - NCAA Grudgingly Allows State to Bid
The decision by North Carolina lawmakers to repeal House Bill 2, the state’s infamous so-called “bathroom bill,”comes just weeks before the NCAA is se...
Vikings Team with Audubon Society to Help Save Birds’ Lives
Pro football may have taken a beating over its handling of concussions, but the Minnesota Viking might just have a softer side. The organization teame...
Coming Up Short: When a Course Error Means Athletes Can’t Qualify for a Bigger Race
If “every sports event planner’s nightmare” had an illustration, it might be this: runners standing open-mouthed after finishing a marathon with a Bos...
Bring on the Spring: Ski Resorts Make the Most of the Muddy Transitional Season
The snow is melting. The crocuses are up. The robins and bluebirds are around. And ski resorts are rising to the challenge of this muddy, messy period...
Inside Events: United States Gaelic Athletic Association
Many sports, including soccer, came to America in the process of immigration. Others have evolved over time. But when an American organization works t...
March Madness: Broken Brackets and Broken Bank Accounts
Your bracket is busted and you’re out a few dollars in the betting pool. Just be glad you’re not the families of some of those athletes, who shelled o...
Major League Soccer Gives Cities Their Kicks: 12 Vie for Four Expansion Franchises
Between the World Cup and the burgeoning youth scene, soccer is basking in the boom. Here’s even more proof: Major League Soccer has approved four exp...
The New Contact Sport: Legalized Fan Fights
Group fighting hasn’t been a team sport since, oh, the days of Christians and lions, but leave it to an entrepreneur to bring it back. A (no kidding) ...