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Data Breaches Are Big News and Bigger Trouble. Here's How to Prepare

Data Breaches Are Big News and Bigger Trouble. Here's How to Prepare

Last week brought the unsettling news of the latest data breach, this one involving some 100 million Capital One credit cards. This week, an online sp...

With New Injury Study, the Issue of Women’s Lacrosse Helmets Rears its Head

With New Injury Study, the Issue of Women’s Lacrosse Helmets Rears its Head

While everyone agrees helmets prevent injury, the chance of them becoming a requirement in girls’ and women’s lacrosse remains remote. Can a new study...

ClearBag

Clear-Bag Fan Policies Find Their Way to High School Sports

Last fall, high schools in Florida took the unprecedented security step of banning students from bringing backpacks into gymnasiums, into stadiums and...

The Rise of AI in Youth Sports Industry

The Rise of AI in Youth Sports Industry

Who’s one of the most valuable players in youth sports? Artificial intelligence. AI is infiltrating the industry quickly with connected coverage of sp...

Japan

Inside Events: Babe Ruth League, Inc.

Holding firm to the ideal that youth sports should emphasize participation and enjoyment over everything else, the Babe Ruth League has offered qualit...

In Fortnite World Cup, Esports Puts Money Where its Mouse Is

In Fortnite World Cup, Esports Puts Money Where its Mouse Is

Esports is a force to be reckoned with. At the end of July, the fledgling sport put its money where its mouth (mouse?) was and proved doubters wrong. ...

SyntheticField

Synthetic Sports Fields Not a Significant Danger, Says EPA Report

Those who want to blame synthetic fields for the evils of the world are going to be disappointed, according to the EPA. Late last week, the agency rel...

USOC Pressures Park District to Rename ‘Olympic’ Pool

USOC Pressures Park District to Rename ‘Olympic’ Pool

Bad news: If your sports venue or event uses the name, ‘Olympic’ and you don't have express permission, you could be hearing from the U.S. Olympic and...

LittleLeague

Travel Ball at Fault for Little League's Decline?

Worldwide participation in Little League has been dropping steadily for at least 25 years, and many are casting travel ball as the villain of the piec...

MLB

Does Major League Baseball Have a Future in Europe?

It might be the Great American Pastime but does baseball have a future overseas, specifically in Europe? There were plenty of fans when the sport debu...