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ARTICLE Jun 11, 2026
#GOALS: Adult Sports Club Offering Its Own Version of the World Cup
Recently, SDM profiled the Sport & Social Industry Association, a nonprofit trade organization for businesses that operate adult sports leagues, tournaments and social events. Now, one of those opera...
ARTICLE Jun 11, 2026
Nominate Now: SDM’s Champions of Economic Impact Awards Program
We already know that sports tourism is a nearly $275 billion industry. We also know that everyone reading this has helped build that number. Don’t you want some recognition for your part in it? SDM is...
ARTICLE Jun 01, 2026
The Sport & Social Industry Association
There’s a fast-growing sector in the sports events market and it isn’t youth, although it’s made up of athletes who used to fall into that category: Adult leagues with regular programming in everythin...
ARTICLE May 28, 2026
Coming Soon: SDM’s 2026 Champions of Economic Impact in Sports Tourism Awards
We already know that sports tourism is a nearly $275 billion industry. We also know that everyone reading this has helped build that number. Don’t you want some recognition for your part in it? SDM is...
ARTICLE May 28, 2026
Flag Football Outpaces Even Beach Volleyball in the Rush Toward Collegiate Championship Status
When NCAA announced that women’s flag football had received a formal recommendation to become a championship sport, the reaction was an open-mouthed stare because, well, flag was just added to the Eme...
ARTICLE Apr 29, 2026
An Endurance Race with Taco Bell Stops? Now THAT’S Fast Food
Endurance racing isn’t for weenies but it is for tacos. At least it is during the Taco Bell 50K, during which runners had to journey (on foot, very quickly) between nine Taco Bells, ordering and eatin...
ARTICLE Jan 22, 2026
Women’s Sports Make Biggest Headlines at NCAA Convention
National Girls and Women in Sports Day is in February but NCAA is ahead of the game. Two women’s sports, STUNT and Acrobatics & Tumbling have become full championship sports. Women’s Wrestling became ...
ARTICLE Jan 08, 2026
Want to Honor America’s 250th Birthday with Sports Tie-Ins? Start Now
Baby boomers (and older members of Gen X), recall America’s bicentennial in 1976, as well as all the hype around it. These days, many of those people (who as kids, marched in parades while wearing red...
ARTICLE Jan 01, 2026
Another Path to Success
Across the country, cities have added to their inventories of venues, improved upon existing facilities and partnered with colleges and universities to gain new leverage in an increasingly competitive...
ARTICLE Sep 01, 2025
IRONMAN
The IRONMAN Triathlon is a branded event that includes a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bicycle ride and a marathon 26.2-mile run completed in that order, for a total of 140.6 miles. Since its first event ...
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