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The WNBA will expand to Canada, awarding Toronto an expansion team that will begin play in the 2026 season and become the first team in the league outside of the United States. Kilmer Sports Ventures, led by Larry Tanenbaum, is paying $115 million for the team. Tanenbaum is chairman of the NBA Board of Governors […]
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FIBA has announced that Hangzhou, China, will host the fifth edition of the FIBA 3×3 Women’s Series Final on September 7–8. This will be the first time China has hosted the women’s final. The country will also be the site for three other women’s events this summer in Chengdu from June 21–22, Wuhan from June […]
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The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority announced on Friday a $100,000 per year sponsorship to each active player on the Las Vegas Aces for the next two seasons, celebrating the two-time defending WNBA champions with a deal that within 24 hours was being looked into by the league as a potentially illegal extra benefit. […]
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Brazil will host the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup, bringing the event to South America for the first time after beating out a three-country European rival bid. Brazil won a vote of FIFA’s 211 member nations during its Congress in Bangkok on Friday. Brazil moved ahead of a joint Germany-Belgium-Netherlands bid recently after being given […]
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FIFA will launch a Women’s Club World Cup starting in January 2026 that will involve 16 club teams from around the world although the international federation on Wednesday did not specify how they would qualify or where they could play the inaugural event. FIFA has made launching a global club tournament a key part of […]
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The Women’s Cup will expand in 2024 to a second event in the United States this summer when the Kansas City Current host three other international club sides at the new CPKC Stadium from August 14–17. The four-team tournament will feature the hometown Kansas City Current, 2023 African Champion Mamelodi Sundowns, 2023 Copa de la […]
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In December 2022, the She Flies Gala was created as an annual fundraiser to help fund the She Flies initiatives and now, Sport Oregon has seen its growth mirror that of women’s sports across the country. The session “Creating Inclusive Communities Through Sports” at this week’s Sports ETA Annual Symposium in Portland focused on the […]
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The Missouri Valley Conference Women’s Basketball Championship will be held at the Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana, 2025 before rotating to Xtream Arena in Coralville, Iowa, 2026 and Vibrant Arena at The MARK in Moline, Illinois, in 2027. In 2024, the Missouri Valley Conference was one of only six conferences in which the women’s basketball […]
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The Dallas Wings will move to the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center’s Dallas Memorial Arena beginning in 2026 after a 15-year, $19 million agreement was reached pending WNBA approval for the team to move into the city’s downtown. The Wings will play the 2024 and 2025 seasons in College Park Center in Arlington, Texas, where […]
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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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Kentucky Sports Alliance has announced it has completed a major rebrand. The consortium of 15 Kentucky tourism-based organizations has joined under one umbrella to bring sporting events to the Bluegrass State.
Jamie Corr has been named the managing director at Burson Sports, a specialist sports practice based in Lausanne, succeeding Lars Haue-Pedersen, who is stepping down after more than 20 years of leading the agency.
The Sports Facilities Companies has acquired Firland Management as part of launching a new ice division, which includes a partnership with Central Park Conservancy which assumes the management of the Harlem Meer Center in New York City.
As the @NCAA enters the final month of its deliberation on which cities will be future hosts for hundreds of events across all three divisions, destinations around the country anxiously await news of the status of their bids.
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