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ARTICLE Jun 11, 2025
Coming Soon: SDM’s 2025 Champions of Economic Impact in Sports Tourism Awards
We already know that sports tourism is a $114 billion-plus industry and everyone reading this has helped build that number. Don’t you want some recognition for your part in it? SDM is gearing up for i...

ARTICLE Jun 05, 2025
Los Angeles Approves “Olympic Wage” Raise for Hospitality Workers
When the Los Angeles City Council approved updates to the Living Wage and Hotel Workers Minimum Wage ordinances, effectively increasing the minimum wage for its hotel and airport workers to $30 an hou...

ARTICLE Jun 05, 2025
Flag Football Gains Yardage at NCAA, High School Levels
NCAA women’s sports are making 2025 the year they don’t take no for an answer. Recently, the NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics made a recommendation that Divisions I, II and III sponsor legislation ...

ARTICLE Jun 05, 2025
Boost in Sports Equipment Sales Heralds Positive Forecast for Industry
The overused term is “perfect storm,” a confluence of factors that creates a rare outcome. And right now, that’s what’s going on with sales of sports equipment. Racquet and golf equipment manufacturer...

ARTICLE Jun 05, 2025
NFL Players Get their Wish: To (Maybe) Play in LA 2028
The NFL is getting its wish: Its players are allowed to play men’s flag football in the Summer Games in 2028. Sort of. Players can try out for the team, although since tackle and flag differ vastly, i...

ARTICLE May 23, 2025
Travel Sports Score Big Win with Precedent-Setting Right to Play Act
The travel sports industry just scored a major victory. In Illinois, high school student athletes, who previously were unable to participate in non-school sports programs during the playing season, wi...

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 22, 2025
What Happens in Vegas? The Games With No Drug Testing Allowed
The inaugural Enhanced Games, an Olympics-style competition promoting the use of performance-enhancing drugs, will take place over Memorial Day Weekend 2026 at Resorts World in Las Vegas. The announce...

ARTICLE May 22, 2025
Will Baseball and Softball Take the Field After LA 2028?
Will softball and baseball take the field in the 2032 Games in Australia? It’s early days yet but organizers are already promoting their sports for the Olympics after Los Angeles in 2028. Of course, B...

ARTICLE May 08, 2025
Technical Glitches Aside, Robolympics Give Peek into Future
What happens when robots go up against one another, as well as against human athletes, on the field of play? Well, for one thing, we learn that technology has a long way to go. In a recent race in the...
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