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The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup championship will be played on July 13 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, site of the 2026 World Cup final. Twelve stadiums will be used for the expanded 32-team tournament, FIFA said Saturday night, including five of the 11 U.S. venues for the 2026 World Cup: Mercedes-Benz […]
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Northstar Meetings Group has announced two future sites for the TEAMS Conference & Expo, the world’s largest gathering of sports-event organizers, taking the annual event to a pair of markets that reflect the vitality of the sports-related travel market. Along with previously announced host cities, the conference has now announced its host locations through 2031. […]
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John Speraw, who has been the head coach of the U.S. men’s national volleyball team since 2013, will be the president and chief executive officer of the national governing body starting October 1. Besides coaching the U.S. men’s team, Speraw has been the head men’s volleyball coach at UCLA since 2012. Prior to UCLA, Speraw […]
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Next year’s CONCACAF Gold Cup will not have any sites on the U.S. East Coast, a sign FIFA will place games along the Eastern Seaboard in its expanded 32-team Club World Cup. CONCACAF said Wednesday that BC Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, PayPal Park in San Jose, California, and U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis are […]
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Visit Virginia’s Blue Ridge will be partnering with the Landmark Conference and Old Dominion Athletic Conference for a four-year bowl series between the two Division III leagues called the Chesapeake Challenge following the success of the first Cape Charles Bowl and Cape Henry Bowl matchups. Salem, Virginia, and Salem Stadium will serve as the hosts […]
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The Northstar Meetings Group announced the winners of the 2024 SportsTravel Awards during the TEAMS ’24 Conference & Expo in Anaheim, California, honoring the best events, venue and host city in the sports-event industry. TEAMS: Travel, Events And Management in Sports, is the world’s largest gathering of event organizers and travel planners from the sports […]
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Sports travel business Destination Sport Experiences has named Sean Igoe as their new head of commercial partnerships to expand their presence in the world of cycling and endurance sports. “I am delighted to be working with such great brands as Destination Sport Experiences and Sportive Breaks,” said Igoe. “There is a significant opportunity here for […]
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The United States Golf Association will organize five amateur championships over the next 15 years at Erin Hills in Wisconsin, a daily-fee golf course that will be at the venue in addition to next year’s U.S. Women’s Open presented by Ally. “Erin Hills has proven itself as an exceptional venue for USGA championships, and we […]
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The TEAMS Conference & Expo, presented by SportsTravel and hosted by Visit Anaheim, will celebrate its biggest edition ever of the conference designed for business development, education and networking when the sports-event industry gathers for TEAMS ’24 at the Anaheim Convention Center. The conference comes as the sports event industry prepares to welcome the largest […]
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Jamie Corr has been named the managing director at Burson Sports, a specialist sports practice based in Lausanne, succeeding Lars-Haue Pederson, who is stepping down after more than 20 years of leading the agency. “I am thrilled to join Burson Sports and to have the opportunity to build on its incredible legacy” said Corr. “I […]
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Kentucky Sports Alliance has announced it has completed a major rebrand. The consortium of 15 Kentucky tourism-based organizations has joined under one umbrella to bring sporting events to the Bluegrass State.
Jamie Corr has been named the managing director at Burson Sports, a specialist sports practice based in Lausanne, succeeding Lars Haue-Pedersen, who is stepping down after more than 20 years of leading the agency.
The Sports Facilities Companies has acquired Firland Management as part of launching a new ice division, which includes a partnership with Central Park Conservancy which assumes the management of the Harlem Meer Center in New York City.
As the @NCAA enters the final month of its deliberation on which cities will be future hosts for hundreds of events across all three divisions, destinations around the country anxiously await news of the status of their bids.
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