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Travel Options: Hotels and Lodging

Travel Options: Hotels and Lodging

Starting the search for out of town accommodations always includes an element of the unknown. In fact, it can be a little like a blind date: you don't...

Medical Support Planning and Prep: Medical Planning for Public Events

Medical Support Planning and Prep: Medical Planning for Public Events

The potential for a medically related adverse situation, whether emergent, urgent, or mundane, exists within any group of people. When a large crowd ...

Obstacle Racing: Mud, Blood and Pay Dirt: Planning an Obstacle Race from the Ground Up

Mud, Blood and Pay Dirt: Planning an Obstacle Race from the Ground Up

One part boot camp, one part foot race and 100 percent adrenaline rush, obstacle racing has muscled into the public conscience. It's the latest fitnes...

Insurance: Operation Liability Coverage

Insurance: Operation Liability Coverage

Playing sports always comes with the risk of potential physical injury, but last year, we were reminded that the abuse of children can take place in e...

Olympic Rings

USOC Takes the First Step on the Long Winding Road to a 2024 Olympics

It’s long past time and America deserves, and has earned, a ninth Olympic Games.

Photo courtesy of Larry Slater

A Slap In The Face To America’s Athletes And Their Dreams: IOC Drops Wrestling

America has competed in wrestling in every Games other than the star-crossed 1980 Games in Moscow, when the desperate White House and President Jimmy ...

Basketball: Nothing But Net

Basketball: Nothing But Net

Everyone associates the month of March with college basketball, but the sport itself is a year-round winner for younger players as well.

The NCAA’s New Recruiting Controls: An In-Depth Analysis

The NCAA’s New Recruiting Controls: An In-Depth Analysis

In January 2012, the NCAA’s Board of Directors voted to ban 7-on-7 football games, leagues, camps or other “non-scholastic” sport enterprises on its m...

USA Rugby: An interview with Nigel Melville

USA Rugby: An interview with Nigel Melville

What is USA Rugby’s goal? We’re the national governing body in the U.S. and a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee and International Rugby Board. USA...

Permitting and Working with Authorities: Finishing What Has to be Done Before the Race Starts

Permitting and Working with Authorities

There are plenty of people who attend sports events like road races, and because they enjoy themselves so much, they become participants in those same...