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It may not have the drama of Selection Sunday, but Selection Wednesday is coming on October 14 as the NCAA will release future hosts for 86 championship events, including hundreds of regional competitions, for the 2022–2023 through 2025–2026 seasons. The announcement will be posted on the NCAA’s home page at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time […]
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A new $15 million sports complex in Florence, South Carolina, will be anchored by a 1,600-seat stadium that will be the future home of the Florence RedWolves, which play in summer college baseball’s Coastal Plain League. The complex’s announcement was made by the city and team this week. The RedWolves have signed a lease with […]
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San Diego State football, which like the rest of the Mountain West Conference is not playing this fall, will spend both the spring and fall seasons in 2021 playing home games at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California, so that construction work on a new downtown San Diego stadium can progress toward a potential […]
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Last year’s college basketball season ended with a COVID-induced thud and no championship to speak of. Like every other sport on the collegiate landscape, basketball spent the summer full of uncertainty. And as its scheduled start date for practices loom, a sport that bridges both the fall and winter seasons — finishing in the spring […]
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As NJCAA Esports begins its second year of competition for its junior college members, it has announced an agreement with Generation Esports to serve as the organization’s official esports platform partner. Under the deal, GenE, the entity behind the High School Esports League, will provide professional insights into esports including the onboarding process of schools, […]
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The Big East Conference will move its women’s basketball tournament to one of the hotbeds of the sport, going to Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut, for a three-year contract starting in 2021. The move to Connecticut follows the readmission of the University of Connecticut and its powerhouse women’s program to the Big East. UConn […]
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Collegiate StarLeague’s 2020–2021 season will include a new Women’s League program with competitions in multiple esports games including League of Legends, Valorant, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, Rocket League, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Fortnite. The CSL, in its 12th year of operations, says that it will reach over 1,800 colleges and universities this season […]
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Derrick Gragg has been named to the new position of senior vice president for inclusion, education and community engagement at the NCAA. Gragg, who is the vice president and athletics director at the University of Tulsa, will report to NCAA President Mark Emmert and begin his new role on October 5 as part of the […]
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This one hurts. There’s no question 2020 has been a wild ride for the sports-event industry. Since mid-March when the COVID-19 pandemic began in earnest, each event cancellation and postponement has been a gut punch at worst and disorienting at best for sports organizations, the destinations that host their events and the fans who love […]
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Before you celebrate a touchdown with your friends and go crazy high-fiving strangers who feel like friends in that moment, you start with the tailgate party hours before kickoff with snacks, all sorts of food on the grill and a football flying through the air. Postgame usually means a drink downtown at a packed sports […]
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Michele Kang, owner of the @WashSpirit, has pledged to give @ussoccer women’s programs $30 million over the next five years — the largest philanthropic investment in U.S. Soccer’s women’s and girls’ programs ever received.
Chattanooga Sports, which has built its sports-tourism offerings through a mix of sports, on a variety of levels, showcased its downtown walkability and outdoor activities to the industry last week at the Sports Events & Tourism Association 4S Summit.
The @thepwhlofficial has launched the PWHL Takeover Tour, a schedule of nine neutral-site regular-season games that will be played outside the league’s current host cities in 2025.
Brendan Quirk, president and chief executive officer of @usacycling, was elected chair of the National Governing Body Council on November 14. Aron McGuire, chief executive officer of @USABS, was elected vice chair.
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