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Utilizing Your Local CVB or Sports Commission to Help Plan Your Events

Utilizing Your Local CVB or Sports Commission to Help Plan Your Events

Everyone’s goal is to have a successful event. Making sure both the event planner and the local Destination Marketing Organizations (DMO) have the sam...

Engaging Volunteers: Lessons from Real Life

Engaging Volunteers: Lessons from Real Life

No matter whether they’re presented in a major stadium or in a school gymnasium, sports are engaging and fun. They get crowds excited, build pride and...

Success in Stay-to-Play: It All Starts with Communication

Success in Stay-to-Play: It All Starts with Communication

Stay-to-Play: It’s one of those terms that can set an event owner’s mind at ease or get them worried. In many cases, what makes it great is the same t...

Scoring Big With Lacrosse

Scoring Big With Lacrosse

Lacrosse has been played on the North American continent for centuries. Today, it’s one of the fastest-growing team sports in the U.S., spreading out ...

University of Utah Becomes First Power 5 School with a Varsity eSports Team

University of Utah Becomes First Power 5 School with a Varsity eSports Team

Throughout the history of collegiate sports, there has been debate over which should be eligible for scholarship funds. The latest is eSports, with th...

Wanna Bet That Sports Gambling Becomes Legal in More States?

Wanna Bet That Sports Gambling Becomes Legal in More States?

From March Madness brackets to Super Bowl pools, betting on sports events is a tradition. It’s just not legal – at least not in 46 states. However, th...

California’s Travel Ban Could Wreak Havoc on College Sports

California’s Travel Ban Could Wreak Havoc on College Sports

While the business of tourism is picking its way carefully through the newest version of the travel ban, something more immediate and close to home is...

London's Home Run Derby: Could It Be the Beginning of Baseball in Britain?

London's Home Run Derby: Could It Be the Beginning of Baseball in Britain?

The Fourth of July is just a day in London, but this year, baseball came there on America’s Independence Day. Hyde Park welcomed several thousand fans...

A History Lesson: Why Denver Snubbed the 1976 Olympics

A History Lesson: Why Denver Snubbed the 1976 Olympics

Cities used to rush the Olympic bargaining table. Today, they don’t. But the roots of refusal actually stretch back nearly 50 years, to the time Ameri...

60-Minute International Soccer Games? It Could Happen

60-Minute International Soccer Games? It Could Happen

Trimming 30 minutes off the length of international soccer games and stopping the clock during timeouts would be a “radical change” to a sport steeped...