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By the Numbers: Travel Bookings for Baseball Hall of Fame’s Induction Weekend

By the Numbers: Travel Bookings for Baseball Hall of Fame’s Induction Weekend

With the 2017 class set at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown (Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines, Ivan Rodriguez, John Schuerholz and Bud Selig)...

When Domed Structures Are No Match for Mother Nature

When Domed Structures Are No Match for Mother Nature

We’re into the season of ice and snow (no kidding), and it’s driving sports events indoors in many areas of the U.S. But what happens when domes and o...

Getting the Lead Out: Will It Affect Sport Fishing Events?

Getting the Lead Out: Will It Affect Sport Fishing Events?

A late-in-the-day order by outgoing President Barack Obama, banning lead fishing tackle and ammunition, has the fishing and hunting communities up in ...

USA Football to Test Major Safety Changes

USA Football to Test Major Safety Changes

Days before Super Bowl LI kicked off, and amid declining player participation and increasing safety concerns, USA Football announced radical changes t...

Market Saturation? Attracting Sponsorships in a Changing Climate

Market Saturation? Attracting Sponsorships in a Changing Climate

When an event isn’t held because of problems with the venue, weather or other factors, it’s disappointing, but not the fault of the event owner. Howev...

Recording and Streaming – and Beyond

Recording and Streaming – and Beyond

Recording and live streaming of your sports events is an excellent way to increase those events’ appeal as well as the size of their audience. It’s al...

Basketball’s Fast Break

Basketball’s Fast Break

March Madness (and its brackets, and its spectatorship and, of course, its resounding economic impact, not to mention its visibility) is ready to stom...

Wheels in Motion

Wheels in Motion

Start with two sports that began as countercultural movements (BMX and skateboarding) and add Olympic status. What you get is an evolution of athletes...

USA Rugby

USA Rugby

USA Rugby works to develop the game on all levels and oversees four national teams, multiple collegiate and high school All-American sides, as well as...

Total Access

Total Access

When we talk about putting on events for athletes with disabilities (or even working with an existing event to add special divisions for those athlete...