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Content and booking professional Starr Butler-Jemison will join OVG360 as senior vice president of content development and private events. Butler-Jemison will start July 5 and oversee a new division focused on private functions, major corporate events and content development across the OVG360 universe of 300-plus arenas, stadiums and convention centers. She will be based in […]
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The International Surfing Association has announced the World Para Surfing Championships will be returning to Pismo Beach, California, again in 2022. Tthe ISA’s flagship Para surfing competition will return from December 4–11, 2022, to the Central Coast, which hosted in 2021. AmpSurf, a non-profit with the stated aim of promoting, inspiring, educating and rehabilitating people […]
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A long time ago, Megan McKenzie was sent some videos by her sister-in-law after a visit to the U.S. National Whitewater Center in Charlotte, planting an idea that she could never truly stop thinking about. “There was something so cool about the energy and that it was a man-made facility,” she said. “You don’t have […]
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After decades of people searching the vast wilderness of the United States, Bigfoot has finally been found. The local organizing committee for the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 has announced “Legend the Bigfoot” as the official mascot for this summer’s event. The 18th edition of the World Athletics Championships will be held on U.S. soil for the first time, taking place […]
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Loudoun County, Virginia, is looking to expand its footprint in the sports-related travel market with the opening of its Fiscal Year 2023 Sports Tournament Grant program. The Sports Tournaments Grant Program was established as one of the strategic growth initiatives of the Tourism Destination Strategy adopted by the Loudoun Board of Supervisors in March 2006. […]
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There will be a new payment system at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, making all transactions easier and faster for consumers. Wells Fargo Center has selected Shift4 to process payments for all online and in‐person ticketing, food and beverage concessions, and retail sales. Home to the Philadelphia Flyers and Philadelphia 76ers, Wells Fargo Center was […]
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A large project may soon be coming to Sarasota County, Florida, as the area looks to capitalize on its booming growth. During the May 10 Sarasota County BCC meeting, commissioners unanimously voted to designate up to $20 million of sixth penny Tourist Development Tax (TDT) revenues for a proposed Nathan Benderson Park Indoor Sports Complex […]
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The spirit of Tour de France is coming to America next May. L’Étape Las Vegas by Tour de France, an amateur mass participation cycling event by Tour de France, is coming to Las Vegas on May 13–14, 2023. The new event was announced at the Las Vegas Ballpark — the starting location of the race […]
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Gillette Stadium, home of the New England Patriots, is getting a rather pricey anniversary gift from its owners. On May 11, the Patriots broke ground on a $225 million renovation project of Gillette Stadium, which is completely funded by owner Robert Kraft and the Kraft family. The groundbreaking took place on the 20th anniversary of the […]
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When the 2024 Olympic Summer Games descend on France, there will be one familiar venue to welcome it back 100 years after it first hosted Olympic competition. Work has commenced on the redevelopment of Stade Yves-du-Manoir, the only venue for Paris 2024 which was also featured in the French capital’s staging of the 1924 Olympic […]
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Fraser Bullock was officially named executive chair and president for the Organizing Committee for the 2034 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City while former Utah Speaker of the House Brad Wilson was named as chief executive officer.
The @MountainWest Conference, in partnership with the Arizona Sports and Entertainment Commission, will host the 2025 Credit Union 1 Baseball Championship at Sloan Park in @VisitMesa, Arizona, May 21–24.
.@usavolleyball has announced that Denver will host the 2025 ParaVolley Pan America Sitting Volleyball Zonal Championships on May 24–28, an event which will run alongside the 2025 USA Volleyball Open National Championship.
The Sports Facilities Companies has been selected to operate Destination KP, a new youth sports venue located on Long Island, New York, withTim O’Connell appointed as general manager.
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