While Some Sports Edge Toward Olympic Limelight, Others Struggle in Obscurity
Even with cheerleading gaining provisional IOC recognition and pole dancing lobbying for it too, some sports still struggle to step onto the internati...
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Tax Day and Easter Mean Big Returns for Sports Events
Here come Peter Cottontail AND the tax man… with planners of sports events not far behind, ready to make money on novelty tie-ins. With April 15 fall...
IOC Warns Pyeongchang 2018 to Move Forward or Risk Harming Image of Games
It wouldn’t be a countdown to the Olympics without political drama, and without the host city declaring all was well regardless. Case in point: Pyeong...
North Carolina Repeals HB2 - NCAA Grudgingly Allows State to Bid
The decision by North Carolina lawmakers to repeal House Bill 2, the state’s infamous so-called “bathroom bill,”comes just weeks before the NCAA is se...
Major League Soccer Gives Cities Their Kicks: 12 Vie for Four Expansion Franchises
Between the World Cup and the burgeoning youth scene, soccer is basking in the boom. Here’s even more proof: Major League Soccer has approved four exp...
Lower Fares Mean More Student Athletes Springing for Break Travel
If you can get past the image of spring break as a time when students check out of school (and into party mode), you can see the season-changing vacat...
Out or Safe? MLB Athletes May Not Be in the Olympics
Who’s on first in Tokyo? It may not be anyone from Major League Baseball. The 2020 summer Olympics are edging closer, but MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred...
ACC Will Need to Look for Alternate Conference Tournament Destinations Soon
While it appears North Carolina’s House Bill 2 is going nowhere (at least for now), Atlantic Coast Conference officials are now at the point where the...
Once Credibility is Gone, NGBs Need to Struggle to get Back into Good Graces
FIFA reforms might be underway, but selling the public on the idea is a whole different ball game. A recent survey of soccer fans in 50 countries show...
The New Contact Sport: Legalized Fan Fights
Group fighting hasn’t been a team sport since, oh, the days of Christians and lions, but leave it to an entrepreneur to bring it back. A (no kidding) ...