U.S. Becomes Home Turf for Mexican Soccer’s Preseason Play
Major League Baseball has its Cactus League and Grapefruit League spring training locations. So what does that make the U.S. when it serves as the pre...
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Inside Events: National Collegiate Table Tennis Association
Not all collegiate sports are played at the NCAA level. Many are club sports that attract a diverse body of competitive athletes, stage national champ...
NASCAR Gains Traction in Social Media, Thanks to Connected Stadiums
For a sport whose following began with tailgating and TV, NASCAR has made a quantum leap. Not that for many sports, social media is new, but NASCAR’s ...
Manchester City FC to Host Hackathon for all the Right Reasons
According to a 2015 Gallup poll, one of the crimes U.S. residents fear most is having their computer or smartphone hacked and their identity stolen. B...
A Timeline of Rio’s Problems: Snapshot View of an Olympics in Disarray
The Olympics begin August 5. Rio says it’s ready, but it’s hard for a waiting world to believe that statement, given the morass of problems popping up...
The ‘Brain-Eating Amoeba’ and Open-Water Sports Events: What Planners Need to Know
The recent death of a teenager after contracting a rare illness at a waterpark has put the sports community on notice. Such infections, it is noted, a...
Dinty Moore Pits Lumbersexuals against Lumberjacks in the 'Olympics of Timber Sports'
Not having run a marathon never stopped anyone from wearing running shoes, and a lack of knowledge of timber sports hasn’t prevented guys from wearing...
Opposition Brewing In Rome to 2024 Olympics Bid
There’s a battle brewing in Rome and it has nothing to do with the Christians and the lions. The Italian capital's bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics, p...
Casa Grande, Arizona, to Welcome World-Class Motorsports Facility
Casa Grande, Arizona, is getting residents’ engines revving for a 2,360-acre motorsports park. Developers say the park will be a magnet for entertainm...
Rio Games are Bucking Travel Insurance Trends
The Olympics is a bucket-list item, but this year, some might be putting their plans on hold, with Zika, political and economic unrest and reports of ...