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Birmingham Moves Closer to Host USFL’s Relaunch

Birmingham, Alabama, is close to becoming the host for the relaunched USFL this spring after a city council vote on Tuesday night. A resolution to allow the city and Birmingham Park and Recreation Board to finalize an agreement with the USFL was approved as long as the agreement does not exceed $500,000. The deal would […]

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Cotton Bowl to Feature Allied Esports Activation

Esports is coming to the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic, as Allied Esports will bring its Allied Esports Truck to the College Football Playoff Semifinal in Arlington, Texas. The 18-wheel mobile gaming truck will include an eNASCAR Arcade activation with Goodyear providing attendees a unique racing experience on virtual NASCAR tracks using iRacing simulators on the […]

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Revived USFL Announces Eight Teams for 2022; Birmingham a Possible League Host

The revived USFL, the much-celebrated spring football league from the early 1980s that is being brought back in an attempt to capitalize on nostaglia, has announced its inaugural eight teams that will have plenty of familiar names to those who used to follow the league. The eight teams will be the Philadelphia Stars, New Jersey […]

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Allegiant Stadium to Host 2021 Nevada High School Football Championships

The presence of a professional football stadium along the Las Vegas Strip continues to attract events to the home of the Las Vegas Raiders. The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association has announced that the One Nevada Credit Union State Championship football games in three divisions will be played November 18 at Allegiant Stadium. The Class 5A […]

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XFL Announces New Leadership Team

The XFL and its ownership group have announced a new group of executives that have been hired to lead the new version of the upstart football league owned by Dany Garcia, Dwayne Johnson and RedBird Capital Partners. The league intends to return to play in 2023. Joining the leadership team are several former NFL executives, […]

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L.A. Chargers Unveil Training Facility Plans

The Los Angeles Chargers have released plans for a 14-acre training facility and corporate headquarters in El Segundo, California, with everything from practice fields to an esports facility encompassing the site that has a targeted spring 2024 completion date. “When searching for a location to establish our hub of football and business operations, we didn’t […]

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Greg Sankey: Expanding the SEC, the College Football Playoff and NCAA Gender Equity

Greg Sankey has been the commissioner of the Southeastern Conference since 2015 and is generally regarded as one of the more powerful people in collegiate athletics, given the SEC’s dominance over college football. But Sankey’s career spans multiple regions and divisions across the NCAA, from working in Central New York as the director of intramural […]

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Washington Football Team Partners With Grubhub for In-Seat Ordering at FedExField

The Washington Football Team has announced the launch of its partnership at FedEx Field with Grubhub, the first time a professional sports property has partnered with Grubhub. As part of this partnership, Grubhub has a custom ordering experience for FedEx Field that fans through the Grubhub app or by scanning QR codes on the back […]

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Allegiant named Official Airline of the Pac-12 Conference

The Pac-12 Conference has announced a multi-year partnership with Allegiant Airlines,making it the league’s official airline partner in the Pac-12’s debut year at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas for the Pac-12 Football Championship Game. The multi-year partnership establishes Allegiant as the official airline partner of the Pac-12 Football Championship Game on December 3 as well […]

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