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Lodging

10 Tips for Securing Host City Accommodations

You’ve selected a host city and venues for your next sporting event and now there’s just one question. Where will your attendees stay? What are key st...

Soccer Locations

Uncommon Goals: Standout Venues for Soccer

Soccer remains wildly popular at all levels of play; in fact, it grew during 2020, according to industry data. Contributing to this growth, of course,...

Medical Support

Finding the Right Medical Support for Your Sports Event

When hosting a sports event, finding the correct professional to provide medical services is one of the most important decisions you as an event owner...

Proposals

Crafting the Proposal That Gets Business

Trying to figure out what to put into your proposal? We have all been there in our careers. There is the inevitable discussion about what to include o...

3x3 basketball

3x3 in the USA

One of the new Olympic disciplines, 3x3 basketball (where the U.S. Women's Team won gold), emerged as the breakout star among TV viewers. It’s fast-pa...

St. Patrick's Day

Wearin’ o’ the Green Expected to Put Events Back in the Black This Year

It’s time for green beer, green beads - and consuming enough of the former to warrant doing all kinds of things to obtain the latter. In other words, ...

London Super Bowl

Could London Host the Super Bowl?

London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, already hosting two NFL games a season, has an even bigger goal in mind: being the site of a Super Bowl. Hosting r...

Referee

New Strategy for Getting Youth Officials: Recruit Those Outspoken Parents

The growing problem of verbally and even physically abusive parents at youth sports is nothing new but the National Federation of State High School As...

Community Development

Advantages of Having Venues in Communities Go Beyond Sports Tourism

We already know sports facilities can bring in tourism dollars, and can even spur investment in communities, through the construction of hotels and re...

Lifeguard Shortage

Diving Into Recruitment Early to Avoid Another Lifeguard Shortage

High school and college students are thinking more about spring break than summer vacation but that has not stopped municipalities and aquatics facili...