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USBC Lists RFPs for Two Bowling Championships

USBC Lists RFPs for Two Bowling Championships

It’s not every day an opportunity like this comes along. The United States Bowling Congress (USBC) has released two RFPs. One is the USBC Women’s Cham...

SlamBall, the Love Child of Basketball and Trampoline, Bounces Back

SlamBall, the Love Child of Basketball and Trampoline, Bounces Back

A sport that appeared dead (well, maybe you didn’t even realize it was alive in the first place back in the early 2000s) has been resurrected, thanks ...

Coronation: A Royal Pain for Sports (Also a Tourism Opportunity Fit for a King)

Coronation: A Royal Pain for Sports (Also a Tourism Opportunity Fit for a King)

Here’s a royal pain for international soccer: the coronation of King Charles III. That event, scheduled to take place on May 6 (a Saturday), has wreak...

RFP Teed Up for LPGA Tour/American Junior Golf Association Girls Championship

RFP Teed Up for LPGA Tour/AJGA Girls Championship

What’s up for bid? The 2024 Legends of the LPGA Tour/American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) Girls Championship, that’s what. This is your chance to h...

E-Bikes Proliferating in Events, with Proposed Legislation Potentially Speeding Growth

E-Bikes Proliferating, with Proposed Legislation Potentially Speeding Growth

We’ve already seen e-bikes making inroads into the racing community. Once disparaged as athletes using “mechanical doping,” e-bike athletes are being ...

Bumps in Hotel, Airfares Mean Event Owners Should Advise Early Booking

Bumps in Hotel, Airfares Mean Event Owners Should Advise Early Booking

Travel news has been, well, busy these last few weeks. Between the concerns over defunding Visit Florida to Disney’s takedown of Gov. Ron DeSantis to ...

Perfect Game Seeking Hosting Pitches from Communities

Perfect Game Seeking Hosting Pitches from Communities

Here’s an opportunity that doesn’t come along every day. The Perfect Game World Wood Bat Association (WWBA) Summer National Championships and Fall Wor...

One RFP, Five Championships, Three Sports: The Gulf Coast Athletic Conference

One RFP, Five Championships, Three Sports: The Gulf Coast Athletic Conference

One conference with five championships in three sports is looking for homes. Meet the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference, made up of HBCUs that are affili...

Why Did FIFA Knowingly Pick a City Whose Field Was Too Small to Host?

Why Did FIFA Knowingly Pick a City Whose Field Was Too Small to Host?

SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles wants to host the 2026 World Cup final but it has a big problem: Its field, built for football, is too narrow for internat...

Prospect of Defunding Visit Florida Sending a Chill Through Tourism Industry

Prospect of Defunding Visit Florida Sends Chill Through Tourism Industry

When Florida Republican House leaders announced that they wanted to cut off state funding for the Visit Florida tourism-marketing agency, CVBs statewi...