NBA, Verizon Join Forces on $400 Million Mobile Content Deal
It’s the smoking gun that lets everyone see how much the NBA is pursuing a younger demographic. Verizon and the National Basketball Association have a...
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Trending Now: American Employees Being Offered More Paid Vacation Time
Americans love to travel. That’s not exactly news to sports event planners, who spend plenty of time investigating sites and comparing cities in order...
End of the W-League: What Does it Mean to Sports Planners?
The recent announcement of the closure of the W-League, the women’s pro-am soccer organization, had an air of inevitability. The organization, which h...
Appleton, WI, Other Cities, Raise Hotel Room Taxes for Sports Tourism
While many cities have an agenda to lure more dollars into their economy, they are often unwilling to do so at the expense of already-burned taxpayers...
Inside Events: USA Archery
With the release of the third Hunger Games movie, the sport of archery has never had more exposure. Learn about the non-traditional sport that has exp...
Airlines Will Collect Record Numbers of Passenger Fees in 2015
Airline passengers grumble a lot about a variety of things: late or cancelled flights, high (and inconsistent) airfares, uncomfortable seats, bland fo...
Holiday Scheduling: Which Events Will Perform Better - Those Held the Weekend Before or After Christmas?
It’s the most awkward time of the year for sports spending. Christmas lands on a Friday in 2015, and that means sports planners everywhere have a cho...
Debate Continues Over Permanent Sites for Olympics, World Cup, etc.
The most to host. The bribes for sites. The pay-to-bring-play. The nicknames for the distasteful industry that has become the site selection process f...
Want to Run a Successful Sports Event for Teens? Avoid FOMO
It’s not exactly news that social media use is a language in which teens are fluent. But a new phenomenon, identified recently as Fear of Missing Out ...
Texas Tech to Add New Indoor Sport Center
In early November, Texas Tech officials held a press conference to announce to the public final concept plans for the school’s planned 159,000 square ...