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Destination Sport

Mark Kelly Named Managing Director of Sportsbreaks.com

Destination Sport Group has announced Mark Kelly as the new managing director of Sportsbreaks.com. Kelly brings over 15 years of digital and ecommerce experience, including three years at SportsDirect.com as the head of ecommerce and nearly half of his career in two roles at National Express (head of digital and digital director). “I am excited […]

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ITA Tennis

Intercollegiate Tennis Association Announces Split Sites for Indoor Championships

The Intercollegiate Tennis Association has announced SMU and Baylor as the co-hosts for the 2025 and 2026 ITA Division I Men’s National Team Indoor Championship along with Illinois and Northwestern as the co-hosts for the 2025 and 2026 ITA Division I Women’s National Team Indoor Championship. Splitting host responsibilities between two schools within 200 miles […]

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Happy Valley Sports

Happy Valley Sports & Entertainment Alliance to Host Major Fencing Event

The Happy Valley Sports & Entertainment Alliance will host the 2025 United States Association of Collegiate Fencing Clubs National Championships at the Nittany Valley Sports Centre in State College, Pennsylvania. The event is scheduled to take place on April 5–6, 2025. More than 45 collegiate club fencing teams will participate in the two-day tournament. This […]

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USA Basketball Showcase

USA Basketball Women’s National Team to Play Germany in London

The USA Basketball women’s national team will play against Germany at the O2 Arena in London in one of its final pre-Olympic exhibitions as part of the 2024 USA Basketball Showcase. The U.S. will play Germany on July 23, three days after it plays against the WNBA All-Stars in Phoenix. Prior to London, the U.S. […]

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Tokyo Olympics Boxing
The United States' Duke Ragan, left, exchanges punches with Ghana's Samuel Takyi during their men's featherweight 57-kg semifinal boxing match at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

World Boxing Works to Add New Members for IOC Recognition

World Boxing told The Associated Press on Thursday it is holding talks with up to 30 new members on top of its existing group as it seeks to be the International Olympic Committee’s preferred partner to run boxing tournaments at the 2028 Olympic Summer Games in Los Angeles. World Boxing announced in March that it […]

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IOC Salt Lake Visit
Members of the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games make an opening presentation to the International Olympic Committe's Future Host Commission on the first day of a FHC visit to the potential host of the 2034 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Photo by Matt Traub/SportsTravel

IOC Future Host Commission Starts Salt Lake Olympic Tour

While maintaining that nothing is official and there is still wiggle room, the latest step in Salt Lake City’s march to being formally awarded the 2034 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games started Wednesday with the start of a three-day tour by the International Olympic Committee’s Future Host Commission. The Future Host Commission invited Salt Lake […]

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NFR 2024

National Finals Rodeo to Stay in Las Vegas Through 2035

The Wrangler National Finals Rodeo will stay in Las Vegas through 2035, the Las Vegas Events Board of Trustees and the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Board of Directors have announced. The NFR has taken place at the Thomas & Mack Center on the campus of UNLV every year since 1985 (with the exception of the […]

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Tokyo Olympics Athletics
Hansle Parchment, of Jamaica, center, the gold medal winner in the men's 110-meter hurdles poses with Grant Holloway, of United States, left, silver, and Ronald Levy, of Jamaica, bronze, at the 2020 Summer Olympics (Matthias Hangst/Pool Photo via AP)

World Athletics to Pay Paris Olympic Winners

World Athletics will become the first international federation to award prize money to winning athletes at an Olympic Games starting at the Olympic Summer Games in Paris. The federation will make available a total prize pot of $2.4 million, which will come from the International Olympic Committee’s revenue share allocation that World Athletics receives every […]

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Brazil Soccer Copa America Brazil Peru
Teams from Brazil, right, and Peru line up prior to a Copa America match at the Corinthians Arena in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2019. The venue will host the Philadelphia Eagles in Week 1 of the NFL season in the fall of 2024. (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine)

Brazil to Host Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers in Week 1 of 2024 NFL Regular Season

The Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers will clash when the NFL goes to São Paulo, Brazil, in Week 1 of the 2024 regular season on September 6, 2024 — the first time the NFL has played a game on Friday night of the opening weekend since 1970. The game will take place at Corinthians […]

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Unrivaled Sports YTH Sports

Unrivaled Sports Acquires YTH Sports

Unrivaled Sports, the newly launched sports venture from Josh Harris, David Blitzer and the Cherin Group, has announced the acquisition of YTH Sports, adding a soccer organization to the company’s growing portfolio. The addition of YTH Sports is expected to bring Unrivaled Sports’ event assets to nearly 600,000 athletes and 1.2 million attendees in 2024 […]

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