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USTA Tennis On Campus

USTA Tennis On Campus, one of the most vibrant and dynamic student-led sports programs, is a club team tennis program involving more than 45,000 stude...

Action on Ski Slopes Staying Hot, Thanks to Sports Business

Action on Ski Slopes Staying Hot, Thanks to Sports Business

The snow cannons aren’t rumbling, the Ski Patrol has the season off and the market for Polartec is way down. And business at ski resorts has never bee...

Streamlining Sports Travel: A Rundown of Apps, Sites and Platforms

Streamlining Sports Travel: A Rundown of Apps, Sites and Platforms

Let’s be honest: multi-tasking is a myth. Event owners and rights holders for sports events are squeezed more tightly these days than ever before, and...

Bad News for Sports Planners: Miami is Latest Hotbed of Zika

Bad News for Sports Planners: Miami is Latest Hotbed of Zika

Not even a wall around the U.S. would stop this threat. Miami is the latest area of concern for the Zika virus, following the diagnosis of several cas...

Skateboarding World in Disarray Despite New Olympic-Sport Status

Skateboarding World in Disarray Despite New Olympic-Sport Status

Skateboarding, it seems, just can’t play nice. Despite being named a new Olympic medal sport for 2020, the sport is plagued by infighting and backbiti...

Zika, Dead Fish and Medals, Oh my! Rio by the Numbers

Zika, Dead Fish and Medals, Oh my! Rio by the Numbers

Gold, silver and bronze are the colors everyone talks about, but for sports planners, the Olympics hold a different significance: the numbers they gen...

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By the Numbers: The First US OPEN of Pickleball Exceeds Expectations

Back when summer was just a gleam in sports promoters’ eyes, the U.S. Open Pickleball Championships moved into Naples, Florida. And the sports event w...

Millions Watch and Interact as The Basketball Tournament is Streamed on Facebook Live

Millions Watch and Interact as The Basketball Tournament is Streamed on Facebook Live

If there were a marriage between sports and reality TV, and if the matchmaker were social media, the children would look like this. The Basketball Tou...

Is that a Pikachu in Left Field? Sports Venues & Facility Owners Ride the Pokémon Go...

Is that a Pikachu in Left Field? Sports Venues & Facility Owners Ride the Pokémon Go Wave

Even if you don’t understand the Pokémon Go craze, at least one thing has become very clear: It's not just invading malls, neighborhoods and more; it'...

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Inside Events: National Junior College Athletic Association

Putting on a total of 48 championship events a year: Check. Live-streaming many of them free for out-of-town viewers: Check. Being the only organizati...