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Mixed-Use Developments Are Increasingly Anchored by Stadiums

Mixed-Use Developments Are Increasingly Anchored by Stadiums

Here’s a new development trend, for those keeping track: increasingly, when there are mixed-use developments (an area where there is retail, office sp...

Risk Management: Don't Let it be an Afterthought

Risk Management: Don't Let it be an Afterthought

Risk management can easily scare event owners and facility managers alike when it comes to sports events. As a result, it’s often left until the last ...

Insights from the National Governing Body for Cheer

Insights from the National Governing Body for Cheer

From offering cheer combines to promoting the emerging sport of STUNT to training national teams in cheer, pom, jazz, hip-hop and dance, USA Cheer has...

STIHL

Inside Events: STIHL TIMBERSPORTS®

It’s been called the original extreme sport and it’s now bringing in sponsorships, prize money, TV coverage and international competition. The STIHL T...

Baseball Netting in the Spotlight – Again

Baseball Netting in the Spotlight – Again

The injury to a little girl at Minute Maid Park has reawakened the debate about protective netting. Unfortunately, unless (and until) a world leader i...

WorldBeachGames

San Diego Washes Out as Host of World Beach Games

Was it something in the water? More like something in the bottom line. The World Beach Games, scheduled for October 2019, have been abruptly yanked ou...

Study Demonstrates Positive Impact of Youth Sports on Mental Health

Study Demonstrates Positive Impact of Youth Sports on Mental Health

As if there weren’t already plenty of reasons to support youth participation in sports programming, medical science is bringing us one more. A new stu...

Sports, Concussion, Repeat: Researchers See Troubling Pattern

Sports, Concussion, Repeat: Researchers See Troubling Pattern

Concussions as a repeated injury? Apparently so. A new study indicates that one in six children who has suffered one concussion will go on to repeat t...

Fishing Derbies: When Kids Cast Out, Everyone Reels It In

Fishing Derbies: When Kids Cast Out, Everyone Reels It In

It all starts with a kid learning to hold a pole. The recreational fishing industry – and competitive event owners – know that anglers are born at the...

Will Esports' Migration to Movie Theaters Leave Convention Centers Behind?

Will Esports' Migration to Movie Theaters Leave Convention Centers Behind?

Note to indoor venues in cities everywhere: if you haven’t updated your network infrastructure to attract esports events, consider this your wake-up c...