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Athletes: Keeping Your Eye on Sports-Even-Planning Priorities

Athletes: Keeping Your Eye on Sports-Even-Planning Priorities

You have an enormous responsibility when charged with planning a sports event and determining its destination. There are many dedicated athletes and t...

Working with Sports Commissions & CVBs

Working with Sports Commissions & CVBs

If you're a sporting event planner trying to settle on a location, there are two organizations that you should seek out and add to your planning team:...

Where There's Water, There's a Way

Where There's Water, There's a Way

Water sports are an ever-growing area of athleticism and entertainment in America, and they are as varied as the locations that host them. Traditional...

Comparing Apples to Apples

Comparing Apples to Apples

Along with the trend toward sports specialization and the subsequent proliferation of sport-specific clubs and travel teams, many amateur sporting eve...

The Southeastern Sports Destination Experience

The Southeastern Sports Destination Experience

Very few would argue that the Southeastern U.S. is not ripe with sports activities. From the almost year-round amenable climate to its vast array of f...

Venues, Community Support, Planning and Sponsorship Help Soccer and Lacrosse Events...

Venues, Community Support, Planning and Sponsorship Help Soccer and Lacrosse Events Achieve Their Goals

Seeking to put together the perfect lacrosse or soccer event? Use this formula to ensure success....

The Gymnastics World

The Gymnastics World

Most Americans' knowledge of gymnastics is limited to the Olympics, but there’s a whole world of gymnastics out there. And that means a whole universe...

Public Relations Campaigns: The Fundamentals of Event PR

Public Relations Campaigns

At my first golf tournament as an event publicist, upon introducing myself to a leading local scribe in the press tent, this grizzled veteran offered ...

Understanding the Stakeholders' Objectives

Understanding the Stakeholders' Objectives

We are measured by excellence, not the average, in whatever we do. If you are constantly refining and nurturing your passion and stretching towards ex...

Indoor Arena Management: Opportunities and Challenges

Indoor Arena Management: Opportunities and Challenges

If you want to rent the Pittsburgh Indoor Soccer Arena in the winter, when its three fields are covered sun-up to sundown with soccer, lacrosse and fl...