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After a 20-year break, the Southeastern Conference will relaunch the SEC Volleyball Championship beginning in 2025 and has signed a three-year agreement to host the event at Enmarket Arena in Savannah, Georgia. The 2025 tournament is slated to take place on November 21–25, 2025, at Enmarket Arena. In addition, upcoming tournaments at the venue are […]
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The Southeastern Conference baseball tournament will remain in Hoover, Alabama, through at least 2028 after the league signed an extended partnership agreement with the city of Hoover and the Public Park and Recreation Board of the City of Hoover. Hoover Metropolitan Stadium has served as host of the SEC Tournament every year since 1998, excluding […]
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Southwest Airlines will be the official airline of the Southeastern Conference after agreeing to a multi-year partnership to highlight SEC football, men’s and women’s basketball, baseball, softball, gymnastics and women’s soccer. Southwest is hosting the Flex Your Fandom Sweepstakes, offering entrants an opportunity to win an experience to the SEC Football Championship. Southwest created additional […]
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The Southeastern Conference Football Championship Game will be held in Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium through at least 2031, an extension of the current contract that was set to expire in 2026. It also allows the SEC the option of exercising an additional five-year extension that could keep the game in Atlanta through 2036. Atlanta has hosted […]
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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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As the temperatures (slowly) become cooler and the days become shorter, fall brings the promise of football and the pageantry of the college game — an experience unmatched almost anywhere in sports. Tailgating is a four-day weekend where the sport is a religion and for an elite few, the idea of a national championship sits […]
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College sports is amid revolutionary change that may not be surpassed in its long and sometimes controversial history. The ability of athletes — sorry, student-athletes — to earn money off name, image and likeness has turned the traditional college sponsorship model upside down. The NCAA recently adopted a new constitution that may see further changes […]
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The Southeastern Conference has entered into a multiyear agreement with Pensacola Sports to host the SEC Women’s Soccer Tournament at Ashton Brosnaham Soccer Complex in Pensacola, Florida. Under the terms of the deal, the tournament will be played in Pensacola through 2024, with an option to extend the agreement through 2026. “We are thankful to […]
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Byron Hatch has been named the College Football Playoff’s chief operating officer after spending six years as the assistant commissioner of championships for the Southeastern Conference. During Hatch’s time with the SEC he oversaw the SEC football championship game, men’s basketball tournament and softball tournament. In his role, Hatch will be responsible for managing the […]
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Greg Sankey has been the commissioner of the Southeastern Conference since 2015 and is generally regarded as one of the more powerful people in collegiate athletics, given the SEC’s dominance over college football. But Sankey’s career spans multiple regions and divisions across the NCAA, from working in Central New York as the director of intramural […]
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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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