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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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Athletes Unlimited Basketball’s 2025 season will take place in Nashville, bringing professional women’s basketball to the Nashville Municipal Auditorium for the league’s fourth championship season. The 24-game campaign will run from February 5 to March 2, 2025. The competition will feature some of the best women’s players in the world, as the 2024 season included […]
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The third season of eFIBA, the official NBA 2K tournament organized by the international federation for basketball, has released the list of 61 national teams that will battle for regional championship titles and a spot in the eFIBA World Finals. eFIBA Season 3 will feature NBA 2K25 on the PlayStation 5, with national federations from […]
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The WNBA and Delta Airlines have announced a multiyear partnership, making Delta the league’s official airline partner. Delta will utilize travel-related storytelling through WNBA media including broadcast, digital, print and social media. Earlier this season, Delta expanded its WNBA charter program relationship as the league introduced a full charter program as it now carries all […]
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Indianapolis will host the 2025 WNBA All-Star Game and assorted festivities around Gainbridge Fieldhouse, the first time the city will have hosted the midseason showcase. The WNBA season resumes tonight after its Olympic break with the Indiana Fever playing Friday against the Phoenix Mercury. The Fever, with young stars Caitlin Clark and Aliyah Boston, are […]
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Future Olympic hosts for both Summer and Winter Games are being taken along the inner workings of the Paris 2024 committee as part of the IOC’s Information, Knowledge and Games Learning program. More than 400 officials from the Organizing Committees for Milano Cortina 2026, Dakar 2026 Youth Games, LA28 and Brisbane 2032, plus representatives of […]
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The Atlanta Hawks and State Farm Arena have hired Amanda Mann as executive vice president and chief facilities officer. She will oversee the operations of all Hawks properties, including their business offices within Centennial Tower, the Emory Sports Medicine Complex and State Farm Arena, home of the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks. Mann will also be responsible […]
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The 2024 Olympic Summer Games in Paris are a big step forward for many sports and among those looking forward to the spotlight is men’s and women’s 3×3 basketball after its Olympic debut in 2021 in Tokyo was with no fans in attendance. The 3×3 competition in Paris will take place in a festival-type atmosphere […]
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One of the most high-profile sports in the Olympic Summer Games in Paris will be basketball. The USA Basketball teams have been some of the most dominant in Olympic history in any sport. The women’s team looks to extend its streak to eight consecutive gold medals and the men’s team looks for its fifth in […]
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For all of the attention on Paris’ use of temporary venues and existing landmarks throughout the city for the 2024 Olympic Summer Games, plenty of the focus has also been on a venue nearly 10,000 miles away where surfing will be organized in the Teahupo’o village in the overseas territory of French Polynesia. “The women […]
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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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