Big-Picture Thinking: New Arenas Boast Huge Video Boards
The Minnesota Timerwolves obviously see the big picture, or more likely, their fans will. The 4,300-square-foot video board has set a new benchmark fo...
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Sports Tourism Puts North Carolina’s Controversial Legislation in the Hot Seat
In a dance that seems all too familiar, yet another governor is trying to backstep after passing yet another piece of controversial legislation that t...
Akron Creates Dedicated Sports Alliance Economic Development Group
Following the example of many cities that are setting up dedicated sports tourism organizations separate from their primary economic development group...
Crested Butte Emerges as MTB Boom Town
Mountain biking, once the scrappy black sheep in the cycling family, is taking its place front and center in the sports tourism world. Crested Butte, ...
Pittsburgh Officials Propose Hotel Tax Hike to Fund Sports Commission
Pittsburgh would like to bring a Super Bowl to town. And for that, it says, it needs a sports commission. Currently, the CVB, VisitPittsburgh wears a ...
Inside Events: USA National Karate-do Federation
The hardest wait in the world is being experienced by the sports considered for the 2020 Olympics. A decision will be announced by the IOC just ahead ...
Shuffling Snow from Site to Site Means Winter Events Can Survive
Following a year in which the International Ski Federation has cancelled or amended many World Cup events due to unseasonably warm weather around the...
Infrastructure Limitations Threaten Cuba’s Tourist Potential
While Cuba may be the hottest, hippest destination around, it’s not making things easy for tourists. A lack of infrastructure has left the country unp...
A Canada/USA Winter Olympics? It Could Happen
Could there be a bid to host the Olympics that takes two countries to pull it together? As the Magic 8-Ball likes to say, Signs Point to Yes. Calgary,...
New York MMA Opponents Tap Out, Clear the Way for Professional Bouts
It was quite a week in New York. The state said yes, at long last, to professional MMA bouts. That’s right: the city with the tough-guy reputation pre...