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RCX Sports Creates Non-profit Organization for Youth Athletics

RCX Sports has announced the launch of the RCX Sports Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to developing, promoting and implementing diversity and inclusion initiatives in youth sports with a focus on expanding opportunities for all children to experience athletics in a safe, welcoming and inclusive environment. Key initiatives will include providing scholarships and grants to […]

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Box Lacrosse Oneida

World Lacrosse Partners with Turning Stone Resort Casino

Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York, has joined the upcoming 2024 World Lacrosse Box Championships as an official event partner and will host four games at the Mary C. Winder Community Center, the Oneida Indian Nation’s new 90,000-square-foot community center. The September 20–29 world championship event will including 133 games played with 38 […]

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2024 Billie Jean King Cup Moves to Malaga From Sevilla

The 2024 Billie Jean King Cup Finals will move to Malaga, Spain, from Sevilla and be paired with the Davis Cup Final 8 men’s competition in November. The BJK Cup Finals dates and match schedule will remain November 13–20. The Davis Cup Final 8 match schedule and dates will take place November 19–24 with both […]

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Britain FIFA Football Awards
Argentina's Lionel Messi celebrates with the trophy in front of the fans after winning the World Cup in Lusail, Qatar in 2022. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

On Location Appointed Official Hospitality Provider of FIFA World Cup 26

FIFA has appointed On Location as the Official Hospitality Provider of the FIFA World Cup 26, followed by On Location’s announcement that Major League Soccer will be a hospitality sales agent in Canada and the United States. On Location will have exclusive global rights to promote, sell and operate the Official Hospitality Program at the […]

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MLS x TOCA

TOCA Football Expanding to U.S. with Dallas Location

TOCA Football and Major League Soccer will bring the first TOCA Social venue to The Colony’s Grandscape in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area in the summer of 2025. TOCA Social combines soccer, entertainment and dining. TOCA Social Dallas will be the company’s first venue in America, setting the stage for a nationwide expansion across major U.S. […]

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Indian Wells

2024 BNP Paribas Open Creates $852 Million in Gross Economic Impact

The 2024 BNP Paribas Open, a combined ATP and WTA Tours event at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden held each March, claims that it generated an estimated total gross economic impact of more than $852 million on the Coachella Valley economy. The study’s total, conducted by George Washington University, is a 51 percent increase over […]

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Anderson, SC fishing

Anderson to Host Major Youth Fishing Event

The Bass Federation Inc.’s 2024 Junior World Championship will take place July 24­–26 on Lake Hartwell in Anderson, South Carolina, with youth anglers from around the United States and Canada competing for $25,000 in scholarships, products and prizes. For each day of TBF Junior World Championship competition, weigh-ins will be open to the public at […]

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Paris Olympics Mayor Swim
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and Tony Estanguet, president of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games Organizing Committee, swim in the Seine river Wednesday in Paris. After months of anticipation, Anne Hidalgo swam in the Seine Rive, fulfilling a promise she made in January nine days before the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Paris Mayor, Olympic Executive Swim in Seine Before Opening Ceremony

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and Paris 2024 Organizing Committee President Tony Estanguet swam Wednesday in the Seine River, fulfilling a promise to show that the long-polluted waterway was clean enough to host swimming competitions during the 2024 Olympic Summer Games as well as part of the opening ceremony, now only nine days away. Clad in […]

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Pocono CVB

Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau Creates Sports Commission to Drive Tourism

The Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau has announced the formation of the Pocono Mountains Sports, Entertainment & Film Commission to promote sports tourism for the benefit of the local communities. The Pocono Mountains Sports, Entertainment & Film Commission is an operating entity of the Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau and was founded by Chris Barrett, president/chief executive […]

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