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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 14, 2024
With $1 Billion in Economic Impact on the Line, Cities Welcome ‘Ring of Fire’
If the emails aren’t hitting your inbox like asteroids, you need to check your Internet connection. The big celestial event, the total solar eclipse, is finally here and destinations have come up with...
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
As Measles Cases Trend Up in Florida, Should Event Owners Be Concerned?
Spring break is on. Tournament time is in full swing. And Florida, one of the top destinations for youth sports, has a measles outbreak, something unlikely to get better since the state's surgeon gene...
ARTICLE Mar 01, 2024
Ripken Baseball
Ripken Baseball has the stated goal of providing youth ball players with an experience similar to those of Major League Baseball athletes. With six purpose-built Ripken Experience facilities for baseb...
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 Feb 15, 2024
Researcher: Was Cause of Gehrig’s ALS Rooted in Ballpark Soil?
85 years ago, Lou Gehrig stood at Yankee Stadium’s home plate and spoke the words that would outlive him: “Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” Can science today link s...
ARTICLE Feb 03, 2024
Sports Venues Raising Their Sustainability Games
Over the years, the sports industry has become known as a catalyst for change. Sometimes, it has been used to raise awareness of problems facing society or to raise money for charitable causes. Recent...