LA 2024 Adds New Cities to Venue Plan
Long Beach and Anaheim, California, will play a larger role in hosting events if Los Angeles is selected to host the…
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Long Beach and Anaheim, California, will play a larger role in hosting events if Los Angeles is selected to host the…
Continue ReadingVirginia Raggi, the newly elected mayor of Rome, has spiked the city’s bid for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, saying the bid would be too costly…
Continue ReadingThe Atlantic Coast Conference has pulled eight neutral-site championships from North Carolina during the 2016–2017 academic year, including the…
Continue ReadingTom Kiely has been appointed CEO of Visit West Hollywood (California), effective October 17. He will transition from his current role as executive…
Continue ReadingThe NCAA has announced it will relocate seven previously awarded championship events from…
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In March of 2015, I was in Washington, D.C., for an event organized by the U.S. Travel Association and Destination Marketing…
Frank Supovitz: Ask The Event Doctor
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Bob Latham: Winners And Losers
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Dallas Sports Festival
Between bouts, boxers wandered around and watched volleyball players hammering down spikes. Fencers observed a very different form of combat in the boxing ring. Young volleyball players caught glimpses of their Olympic heroes. Until the very last day, when all but a few fencers had left, the second Dallas Sports Festival had met or exceeded every expectation…
Boxing Rolls With the Punches By Greg Mellen Every few years, someone comes along claiming that boxing is down for the count. That someone will cite the rise of mixed martial arts, a lack of network television exposure, an inherent brutality, or the decline of homegrown stars in the sport. There are always those ready […]
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