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Marriott Hack: Steps Planners Can Take (and Pass on to Athletes and Families) to Address...

Marriott Hack: Steps Planners Can Take (and Pass on to Athletes and Families) to Address Problems

Unless you’ve been living in a missile silo, you’ve heard the news of a long-running (though just discovered) Marriott data breach that compromised th...

Instructing Outdoor Sports Enthusiasts in the School of Rocks

Instructing Outdoor Sports Enthusiasts in the School of Rocks

Stacking stones? Creating totems? Try: spreading graffiti. National parks are reporting an uptick of vandalism – and the odd part is, most visitors do...

Flag Football Participation is Booming

Flag Football Participation is Booming

Participation numbers may be down in high school football, but that doesn’t mean the sport is on its deathbed. The number of 6- to 12-year-olds playin...

Lacrosse Takes a Big Step toward the Olympics

Lacrosse Takes a Big Step toward the Olympics

Good news out of the IOC: three sports have provisional Olympic recognition. Even better news, at least for the U.S. where the sport is wildly popular...

When Cheaters Enter Marathons, Internet Sleuths Are Right on their Heels

When Cheaters Enter Marathons, Internet Sleuths Are Right on their Heels

Officials with China’s Shenzhen Half Marathon punished 258 runners who were caught cheating during the Nov. 25 race. Violators included 18 participant...

Should a Polio-Like Virus Concern Youth Sports Event Owners?

Should a Polio-Like Virus Concern Youth Sports Event Owners?

The words and phrases being tossed around are dire: Serious childhood illness. Paralysis. Unknown origin. And this combination: spiking in occurrence,...

Amazon’s Expansions: What Can Two New HQ Cities Mean to Sports Tourism?

Amazon’s Expansions: What Can Two New HQ Cities Mean to Sports Tourism?

The announcement that Amazon has selected two cities – Long Island City, New York, and Arlington, Virginia – to split its HQ2 dropped like a bomb on t...

WWCTOC

Pinning Down a Growing Trend: Women’s Wrestling Leading to Uptick in Events

Women’s wrestling is one of the fastest-growing sports in the country and the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point has become the latest school to ju...

Why Are Cities Backing Away from Hosting the Olympics?

Why Are Cities Backing Away from Hosting the Olympics?

More cities are dropping out of bidding for the Olympics than are staying in the race. Calgary is the latest casualty and is only a symptom of the wor...

USL

Inside Events: Urban Sports League

Participating in sports teaches lifelong lessons, and the Urban Sports League seeks to foster these in its participants. The organization which offers...