Last year the editors of SportsTravel got together for a year end recap for the first time and we thought it would be a great idea to do that again. In this episode, Managing Editor Matt Traub, Associate Editor Justin Shaw and Executive Editor and Publisher Jason Gewirtz take a look at their biggest takeaways from the past year, stories that resonated with them, stories that flew under the radar, the biggest international news and their favorite events to cover. But they’ll also take a look at stories they will be following in the year to come and will each make a bold prediction for 2024. And pay attention to those predictions as last year, two of their three ended up coming true with Matt predicting chaos in conference realignment and Justin impressively calling that the Denver Nuggets would win the NBA championship with Nikola Jokic being named MVP. Jason’s prediction of the University of Colorado winning the College Football Playoff National Championship failed to come to fruition — although for three weeks this fall when Colorado football was the talk of the nation, it seemed like even that one would come to pass. So sit back and take a listen to our year in review and our look ahead to 2024.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- The biggest takeaways of 2023 (4;20)
- Stories that resonated with us this year (9:35)
- Stories that flew under the radar (7:15)
- The biggest international news of the past year (21:55)
- SportsTravel’s favorite events to cover in 2023 (27:52)
- A major storyline we’re watching in 2024 (34:10)
- Bold predictions for the coming year in sports-related travel (39:04)