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Athletes Unlimited Pro Basketball Extends Stay in Nashville

Athletes Unlimited Pro Basketball and Nashville have announced a multi-year deal for AU Pro Basketball to return to Music City in 2026 and beyond. The competition, which includes Olympians, WNBA champions and emerging players, wraps its fourth season and first in Nashville this weekend at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium. Attendance for the four-week event has […]

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Charles Koch Arena in Wichita, Kansas, has hosted TBT Regionals repeatedly in the past. Mark Kuhlmann/TBT

TBT 2025 Tournament Announces Wichita, Lexington and Syracuse as Regional Hosts

The Basketball Tournament (TBT), the 64-team, $1 million winner-take-all event, has announced three regional locations for the summer event with eight-team brackets taking place in Wichita, Kansas; Lexington, Kentucky, and Syracuse, New York. Hosted by Wichita State University and supported by Visit Wichita and headlined by WSU’s alumni squad, the Aftershocks, The Basketball Tournament will […]

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Lauryn Turner Named Dallas Wings’ Chief Operating Officer

Lauryn Turner, who has been the chief operating officer at USA Gymnastics since 2020 and led the national governing body’s organization of the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials in Minneapolis in the summer of 2024, has joined the WNBA’s Dallas Wings as executive vice president and chief operating officer. Turner joined USA Gymnastics in March 2020 […]

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Pacers Sports & Entertainment to Build $78M Indiana Fever Sports Performance Center

Pacers Sports & Entertainment plans to break ground this summer on a $78 million sports performance center for the Indiana Fever in the heart of downtown to open before the 2027 WNBA season. The Indiana Fever Sports Performance Center will be part of the PS&E campus and connected by skybridge to Gainbridge Fieldhouse, home of […]

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FIBA 3×3 to Launch New Competition in Bangkok

The FIBA 3×3 Champions Cup, a new competition featuring teams from around the world, will debut in Bangkok on March 14-16, 2025, at CentralWorld Square. The event will include continental cup winners, the highest-ranked teams in the FIBA 3×3 rankings, Olympic gold medalists and the host nation. Thailand will host the first five editions of […]

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2024 FIBA 3×3 World Tour Records Historic Season

Utsunomiya, Japan will again host the world’s best 3×3 players next season as it stages the 2025 FIBA World Tour Opener on April 26–27. It will be the fourth consecutive time that Utsunomiya has hosted the World Tour Opener, in addition to hosting four World Tours between 2016-2019, including the Final in 2019. The announcement […]

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Martin Dempsey Reelected as USA Basketball Chairperson

Martin Dempsey has been reelected as USA Basketball chairperson for the 2025–2028 term, a role he has served since 2016. Dempsey, a retired Army general who was also the 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will lead the 15-member USA Basketball Board of Directors, who will be seated through 2028. The announcement was […]

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International Federations Reach Digital Records

Two international federations have announced digital records in the months following the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris. Volleyball World has surpassed the milestone of 1.5 million members worldwide on its proprietary media platform, VBTV and is unveiling a new and upgraded platform. The new platform offers content from the sport’s biggest international competitions […]

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WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert speaks to the media before the WNBA basketball draft on April 15, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger, File)

Portland Awarded WNBA Franchise to Begin Play in 2026

The WNBA is headed back to Portland, with Oregon’s biggest city getting an expansion team that will begin play starting in 2026 led by the brother-sister duo of Alex Bhathal and Lisa Bhathal Merage, who paid $125 million for the franchise, which will play its home games at the Moda Center in downtown Portland. Portland […]

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