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Atlanta First to Market Subscription App for Sports Tickets

Atlanta First to Market Subscription App for Sports Tickets

Sports tickets? Yeah, there’s an app for that. Atlanta, Georgia, became the first market in the country to offer a subscription-based sports ticket ap...

Backed by Big Numbers, the NFL Draft Moves to City of Brotherly Love

Backed by Big Numbers, the NFL Draft Moves to City of Brotherly Love

Like football itself, the NFL draft moves in stops and starts. Coming off a two-year run in Chicago, the event brings its hoopla and big numbers to Ph...

A Fed-up NCAA Pulls its Championships from North Carolina

A Fed-up NCAA Pulls its Championships from North Carolina

NCAA announced last week that it will remove all its championship events, including the opening rounds of March Madness, from North Carolina during th...

Adventure Travelers Seeking More Destinations

Adventure Travelers Seeking More Destinations

The next wave of sports travel might be destination hiking, cycling, kayaking and more, according to studies. In other words, the journey is as import...

Sports Industry Responding to Reports of Underserved Latino Kids

Sports Industry Responding to Reports of Underserved Latino Kids

A recent news report that children in Latino communities have fewer opportunities for activity and higher obesity rates than children in white neighbo...

Pop Warner Association in New Jersey Plans a Comeback

Pop Warner Association in New Jersey Plans a Comeback

In New Jersey, the Pop Warner football association that canceled its season after losing many players to flag football (thanks, or more likely, no tha...

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Inside Events: USA Fencing

USA Fencing walked away from Rio a winner with four medals, and immediately embarked on a nationwide tour to help build excitement about the sport. Ge...

New Association Formed to Help Plan LGBT Events

New Association Formed to Help Plan LGBT Events

In an attempt to better integrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community into event planning strategies in cities around the country, Al...

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Rockford Revived a Wacky Tradition and 20,000 People Showed Up

Whatever floats your boat, particularly in Rockford, Illinois, where a homegrown raft race raised $9,000 and brought in nearly 20,000 spectators to wa...

Scrambling to Reroute Marine Corps Marathon Following Transit Problems

Scrambling to Reroute Marine Corps Marathon Following Transit Problems

Thousands of runners and 100,000-plus spectators are tinkering with their schedules, thanks (or no thanks) to train mass transit problems that have re...