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NEW ORLEANS — It is 10 p.m. Wednesday night on Bourbon Street, a place where excess is not just tolerated but encouraged, and the nightly party in the streets is starting to begin. People of all ages (over 21 of course) and backgrounds walk up and down the legendary street, drinking and carousing while DJs […]
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There’s a three-word phrase all over New Orleans. It adorns everything from notepads to drink koozies to signage around the city: Built to Host. It’s a catchy slogan for the popular tourist destination, but those three words have a different meaning in the coming months for the Crescent City less than three months away from […]
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New Orleans has been selected to host the 2025 U.S. Gymnastics Championships and the USA Gymnastics National Congress and Trade Show. The event, hosted by Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation, will be staged at the Smoothie King Center, August 7–10. It will be the first time in 30 years that New Orleans has hosted the […]
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The National Football League and Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation have announced the official events and activations for Super Bowl LIX in February including fan experiences, community-driven initiatives and more. “We couldn’t be more excited to return to the heart of New Orleans with Super Bowl LIX,” said Peter O’Reilly, NFL executive vice president, club […]
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The Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation has selected Wendy Brunet Burns and Patrick Kiernan to join its Board of Directors after each were nominated and approved by the board at the June meeting. Burns has spent more than three decades in retail management and merchandising. She is the current co-managing partner of Westwin Business and […]
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Hours after the confetti fell on Super Bowl 58 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, members of the NFL, the Las Vegas Super Bowl Host Committee, the New Orleans Super Bowl Host Committee and others gathered at a press conference early on February 12. The event was a handoff from one committee to the next, […]
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The Southeastern Conference will host the 2024 SEC Gymnastics Championships at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans on March 23, returning to the site of the 2019 championships where an event-record crowd of 10,505 attended the two-session competition. “The Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation is proud to once again partner with ASM Global to bid […]
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The National Football League will move the 2024 Super Bowl out of New Orleans and the Superdome because of a conflict with Mardi Gras and will give the city the hosting duties for Super Bowl LIX in 2025 instead, the league has announced. The conflict with Mardi Gras came after the league’s renegotiated CBA with […]
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After having a record crowd on hand to watch hometown LSU capture the title in 2019, the Southeastern Conference has already decided to return to New Orleans for the SEC Gymnastics Championships in 2021. The league announced that the meet will be held again at the Smoothie King Center in Louisiana. It will be the […]
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The National Football League has selected Arizona to host Super Bowl LVII in 2023 and New Orleans to host Super Bowl LVIII in 2024…
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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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