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Stay-to-Play: A Virtual Roundtable

Stay-to-Play: A Virtual Roundtable

The often divisive topic of stay-to-play has had coverage from multiple angles, including that of event owners, academics, housing bureaus, destinatio...

Special Feature: Interview with Alan Kidd

Special Feature: Interview with Alan Kidd

Following a lengthy search, the National Associations of Sports Commissions named Alan Kidd its next executive director. Kidd officially takes over hi...

Home Field Advantages

Home Field Advantages

Whether it’s World Cup athletes charging onto the field of play or kids hopping out of the minivan and ambling toward the municipal fields, soccer is ...

Softball

Inside Events: USA Softball

It’s played in backyards, in schools and once again, it’ll be played in the Olympics. Softball, long one of the most popular team sports in this count...

United States to Co-Host 2026 World Cup with Mexico and Canada?

United States to Co-Host 2026 World Cup with Mexico and Canada?

Could the FIFA World Cup become a co-hosted tournament? With a 48-team field that would increase demands on the host, there may well be cases where on...

Utah Celebrates 15-Year Anniversary of 2002 Winter Olympic

Utah Celebrates 15-Year Anniversary of 2002 Winter Olympic

Hard to believe that 2017 marked 15 years since Salt Lake City hosted the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. The International Olympic Committee made its anno...

Legislation in Illinois and Wisconsin Targets Pokémon Go

Legislation in Illinois and Wisconsin Targets Pokémon Go

Hey, Pikachu. If you want to play in the park, you’re going to need a permit. Following last summer’s Pokémon Go craze, in which people chased charact...

Eclipse

Tie-Ins with Science, Technology and More Expected to Bring Tourists, Kids to Events

Minor League ball game promotions have traditionally included bobbleheads, fireworks, souvenir posters and even garden gnomes. But this summer, severa...

The Running of the Green: St Patrick’s Day and Sports Tie-Ins

The Running of the Green: St Patrick’s Day and Sports Tie-Ins

Who knows anything about St. Patrick other than (a) his feast day being March 17 and (b) some story about snakes? It’s more than evident that St. Patr...

Cuba Sports Events, Tourism in Limbo Pending Trump’s Actions

Cuba Sports Events, Tourism in Limbo Pending Trump’s Actions

With Donald Trump in office, will tourism to Cuba be cut off? It was a campaign promise, after all. The hospitality sector comes out as a big loser in...