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ARTICLE May 09, 2024
Get Your BID On: World Triathlon Events
World Triathlon is welcoming bids for a variety of events to be held in 2025. Here’s some incentive: The organization’s top-tier events are broadcast in 22 countries (or larger regions) including the ...
ARTICLE May 09, 2024
Fueled by a Shortage of Courts, Tennis/Pickleball Tensions Escalate
Some things never change. One of them is the tension between the playing populations for tennis and pickleball. Some blogs and writers are taking sides. One headline declared: “Pickleball is Killing T...
ARTICLE May 09, 2024
Forgeries, Fraud and Forfeitures: Over-Age Youth Athletes
Headlines exploded last year when a 32-year-old social worker was arrested for posing as a high school student and playing on the girls’ basketball team. But it’s not the first time over-age athletes ...
ARTICLE May 01, 2024
A Swell in Interest Ahead of the Olympics
Since surfing started appearing in the Olympics (spurred by the IOC’s wish to attract a more youthful viewership to the Games), there has been an uptick in the amount of attention the sport is getting...
ARTICLE Apr 26, 2024
Pond Skimming, Wacky Costumes Mark Ski Resort End-of-Season Celebrations
And down the chute they come for the last time this year. In ski resorts, season-ending festivities are standard, even when those edge toward the weird. Skiing in costumes (and even swimsuits) and try...
ARTICLE Apr 11, 2024
Flag Football Expanding Nationwide as Next Emerging High School Sport for Girls
The year 2022 brought the 50th anniversary of Title IX, which played a significant role in opening doors for girls’ participation opportunities in sports. And while sports like basketball and volleyba...
ARTICLE Apr 11, 2024
Get your BID On: WBSC's International Baseball and Softball Events
The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has unveiled a new events bidding calendar, outlining the top WBSC tournaments, providing opportunities for cities and organizers around the world to w...
ARTICLE Mar 14, 2024
Late Winter Bringing an Avalanche of Problems for Search and Rescue Personnel
Try to summit a mountain, encounter a snowstorm, realize you’re out of your depth and… then what? Those who value their skin generally call 911 (if they have service) and hope for a search and rescue ...
ARTICLE Mar 01, 2024
The Water’s Just Right
Ball sports dominate the sports tourism landscape, while convention centers and other large multi-purpose indoor sports facilities pull double duty to host a variety of mat sports. But it takes a spec...
ARTICLE Feb 29, 2024
Sports Tourism, Bigfoot and the Rise of Cryptid Travel
For those in the right areas, it’s a big hairy deal. Nationwide, cryptid tourism (defined as the pursuit of something not yet proven to exist, like Bigfoot, Mothman, the Skunk Ape or the Boggy Creek S...
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