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ARTICLE Apr 11, 2024
Flag Football Expanding Nationwide as Next Emerging High School Sport for Girls
The year 2022 brought the 50th anniversary of Title IX, which played a significant role in opening doors for girls’ participation opportunities in sports. And while sports like basketball and volleyba...
ARTICLE Apr 11, 2024
Are You Going Gaga Over Gaga Ball, the New Youth Sport?
Dubbed a kinder gentler version of dodgeball, the fast-growing game of GaGa Ball is played with a soft foam ball and combines the skills of dodging, striking, running and jumping, while trying to hit ...
ARTICLE Apr 11, 2024
Get your BID On: WBSC's International Baseball and Softball Events
The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has unveiled a new events bidding calendar, outlining the top WBSC tournaments, providing opportunities for cities and organizers around the world to w...
ARTICLE Mar 01, 2024
Par Excellence
In 2023, 123 million people (more than one-third of the U.S. population over the age of 5) played golf on-course or off-course, followed golf on TV or online, read about the game, or listened to a gol...
ARTICLE Mar 01, 2024
The Water’s Just Right
Ball sports dominate the sports tourism landscape, while convention centers and other large multi-purpose indoor sports facilities pull double duty to host a variety of mat sports. But it takes a spec...
ARTICLE Mar 01, 2024
As Race Cheaters Proliferate, So Do Safeguards (and Watchdogs)
No matter what the competition, people want to win. And unfortunately, they’ll sometimes take almost any route to ensure they do, even if it’s illegal. Most recently, headlines were made when a school...
ARTICLE Mar 01, 2024
Soccer Poised to Kick It Up Nationwide
Soccer is the most popular sport in the world, with an estimated 250 million players in 200 different countries. In the U.S., soccer has been doing well for decades, but the sport should get a massive...
ARTICLE Mar 01, 2024
Wondering Who’s Who? Here’s a Go-To Guide
Sports tourism is a quickly evolving market, with new developments happening constantly. That, in turn, means event owners need knowledgeable partners in all markets. Here, you will find a compendium ...
ARTICLE Feb 29, 2024
Sports Tourism, Bigfoot and the Rise of Cryptid Travel
For those in the right areas, it’s a big hairy deal. Nationwide, cryptid tourism (defined as the pursuit of something not yet proven to exist, like Bigfoot, Mothman, the Skunk Ape or the Boggy Creek S...
ARTICLE Jan 19, 2024
Olympic Esports Games Coming into Focus as Potential Bidders Materialize
Who will be bidding to host the first-ever Olympic Esports Games in 2026? Hard to know as it’s still early days yet but one country has spoken up. Organizing esports has been on the IOC's agenda for t...
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