Here's a way to strike the ground running. Bid on the NAIA Men's and Women's Bowling National Championships, with between 200-250 athletes and 500-1,000 fans. You'll need an alley with at least 32 lanes, as well as a ball paddock, area for athletic trainers, dressing rooms and media room, plus hotel space. Get all the information to bid right here.

The pandemic is behind us and sports have retaken the field in a new landscape that includes more community-based sports, parental concerns about inflation and more pressure being put on coaches (who may have lost staff after 2020). Two sports, tennis and pickleball, are booming. These findings (and more) come from the Aspen Institute's report.

The supply chain issues plaguing commerce in the U.S. are hitting hard in a sector all readers know: sports venues. The construction and improvement of facilities has been hampered by a lack of materials, equipment and supplies, making it hard to host events. What are some of the projects struggling against the problems and how are they coping?

Coaches of youth sports are being called upon to do more than help players hone their skills and while it's an incredibly important task, it's one for which many of them feel ill-prepared: supporting athletes' mental health and identifying problems early. Most at risk, researchers say, are athletes in individual sports. Is it a fair request?

Winter sports event owners and rights holders, take note. Across the USA, ski resorts have invested hundreds of millions of dollars into building and upgrading chairlifts and gondolas. The consumer-driven changes have resulted in lifts that are safer, faster, have greater capacity, and sometimes include luxuries such as heated seats and wind visors.

Following the "Great Lifeguard Shortage of 2022," municipalities already are already deploying some key strategies to avoid a repeat scenario, with the American Lifeguard Association predicting that at least one-third of all public swimming pools in the country are at risk of reducing hours or closing entirely because of a lack of lifeguards.