Providing Fuel for Events By Lisa Iannucci While expansive beaches, favorable weather and experienced host sites may be the first things that come to mind when planning a sports event in the South-Atlantic, the region’s destinations have evolved to offer many exciting attractions that tie in well with a trip to the competition itself. From […]
Continue ReadingDuet in the Desert By Jason Gewirtz The days leading up to last year’s Super Bowl in New York and New Jersey greeted visitors with frigid temperatures at every ancillary event surrounding the first cold-weather outdoor championship in modern NFL history. In contrast, this year’s game in Arizona will be anything but cold. In fact, […]
Continue ReadingRacket Sports Serve Up A New Approach By Greg Mellen For about as long as humans have been able to string rackets or shape paddles, they have used them to create games. In Western civilization, the first racket sports were derived from handball, which was played by monks in about the 12th century. Today […]
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Congress has approved the reauthorization of Brand USA through 2020. The reauthorization bill, which was included in the omnibus spending package…
Continue ReadingUSA Ultimate Announces Relocation
USA Ultimate, the national governing body for the sport of ultimate in the United States and a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee…
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Bob Latham: Winners And Losers
It’s December, which means that I have reached the saturation point with the word “football.” Actually, I’d…
Pat O’Brien
Pat O’Brien
Pat O’Brien was in the middle of some of the biggest sports stories of the 1980s and ‘90s. He served as a regular NFL voice on CBS and covered events that regularly included the NCAA Final Four and the U.S. Open, and later several winter and summer Olympics. His run on CBS Sports lasted from 1981 to 1997. But he became even more well known after making the leap into entertainment reporting, helping to launch “Access Hollywood” until eventually becoming a story himself after an explicit voice mail he had left was leaked to the press. Now recovering from his own addiction to alcohol, he has written “I’ll Be Right Back After This,” a memoir chronicling his problems and…
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The biggest race in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon series continues to get bigger. The Competitor Group’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Las Vegas Marathon & Half Marathon was a three-day weekend affair on the Las Vegas Strip. The event lived up to and even exceeded expectations, with record participation and all distances selling out three weeks in advance said Dan Cruz, Competitor Group’s public relations director.…
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Frank Supovitz: Ask The Event Doctor
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Tim Schneider: Publisher’s Post
As the sports industry continues to grow, so does the pressure for sports-event organizers to stay on top of…
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One of the key initiatives for Sophie Goldschmidt when she took over @usskiteam nearly three years ago was to bring more major events to the U.S. and this season is the culmination of that goal with 12 FIS events in the 2024–2025 season on American soil.
The FIVB elected Fabio Azevedo as its new president at the 39th FIVB World Congress in Porto with American Hugh McCutcheon named as secretary general. The pair detailed some of their future goals for the international federation on Tuesday.
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