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USOC Takes the First Step on the Long Winding Road to a 2024 Olympics

It’s long past time and America deserves, and has earned, a ninth Olympic Games.

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A Slap In The Face To America’s Athletes And Their Dreams: IOC Drops Wrestling

America has competed in wrestling in every Games other than the star-crossed 1980 Games in Moscow, when the desperate White House and President Jimmy ...

The Rise of the Multi-Purpose Field: All the Sports, All the Time

The Rise of the Multi-Purpose Field: All the Sports, All the Time

Three-season athletes. Multi-tasking employees. Some things are just better when they can address more than one need.

Skateboarding & BMX: Creating An Action Sports Asset

Skateboarding & BMX: Creating An Action Sports Asset

Whether you ride a skateboard or a bike, whether you ride a plaza, a bowl or a race course, you’re one of a growing family of athletes. You’re an extr...

Emerging Markets: Get Out of Your Venue Rut

Emerging Markets: Get Out of Your Venue Rut

Repetition has long been known to be beneficial to athletes in practice sessions. When it comes to the location of sports events, though, for athletes...

Energizing Spectator Interest: Getting Spectators Into the Act

Energizing Spectator Interest: Getting Spectators Into the Act

If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a city to host a marathon. In addition to the actual 26.2 miles of streets, it takes a year-long coor...

Basketball:  Nothing But Net

Basketball: Nothing But Net

Everyone associates the month of March with college basketball, but the sport itself is a year-round winner for younger players as well.

The NCAA’s New Recruiting Controls: An In-Depth Analysis

The NCAA’s New Recruiting Controls: An In-Depth Analysis

In January 2012, the NCAA’s Board of Directors voted to ban 7-on-7 football games, leagues, camps or other “non-scholastic” sport enterprises on its m...

USA Rugby: An interview with Nigel Melville

USA Rugby: An interview with Nigel Melville

What is USA Rugby’s goal? We’re the national governing body in the U.S. and a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee and International Rugby Board. USA...

Permitting and Working with Authorities: Finishing What Has to be Done Before the Race Starts

Permitting and Working with Authorities

There are plenty of people who attend sports events like road races, and because they enjoy themselves so much, they become participants in those same...