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ARTICLE May 22, 2025
Pickleball Report Shows Off-the-Charts Growth, Other Insights Too
Off the charts. That’s one way to describe the Sports & Fitness Industry Association’s report on pickleball. The sport has continued its meteoric rise, with a growth rate of more than 61 percent betwe...

ARTICLE May 22, 2025
Sports Venues, Hotels Could be Affected by Visa Worker Shortage
Memorial Day, the great dividing line between spring and summer, is behind us. Now, as sports venues and others in the industry seek to fill gaps in their labor force, they are looking to visa program...

ARTICLE May 22, 2025
Cities Embrace Trails as Selling Points, Economic Drivers
Earlier this year, Nancy Hobbs, the founder and executive director of the American Trail Running Association, stated that trail running was on an upward trajectory. That included numbers of races offe...

ARTICLE May 08, 2025
Theft of Copper Wiring Leaves Youth Fields in the Dark
File this one under “How low can someone go?” Thieves are targeting youth athletic fields for copper wiring, leaving teams without lighting to play night games. It’s a phenomenon that has been seen in...

ARTICLE May 08, 2025
Sovereignty Sitting Out the Preakness, Tripping Up a Triple Crown
Sovereignty, who took the Kentucky Derby in a thrilling finish, won’t be running in the Preakness, but will be seen at the Belmont Stakes. That trips up the Triple Crown for this year. How will it imp...

ARTICLE May 01, 2025
Big Bites
The fishing landscape is ever evolving. Technology plays an essential role, not only in the implementation of forward facing sonar (FFS) used by competitive anglers, but in the use of livestreaming to...

ARTICLE May 01, 2025
Back to School
The term, “back to school,” might bring up thoughts of shopping for new three-ring binders and notebooks with superhero character themes designed to make kids feel cool. But as an adult, and as a memb...

ARTICLE May 01, 2025
Riding the Wave of Popularity
Surfing really burst into American popular culture in the 1960s when the Beach Boys sang about it, and when surf-themed movies like “Endless Summer” started being produced; however, the sport had been...

ARTICLE May 01, 2025
Raising the Bar
While track and field gets the spotlight in the Summer Olympics, the sport has long been a consistent favorite among high school athletes. To meet the demands of athletes, a growing number of destinat...

ARTICLE May 01, 2025
Baseball Continues Its Home Run Tradition
Baseball is, in fact, the Great American Pastime, even judging by statistics. The most recent research from the Physical Activity Council puts U.S. participation for baseball in 2024 at 17.3 million p...