Movie Theaters: The Next Frontier in Sports Venues
Fighter pilots and avatars may have brought movie theaters back to normal, but life will never be the same for theaters as we know them. Maybe that’s ...
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With Flag Football and Dodgeball, Can the Pro Bowl Revamp Bring New Interest?
Ah, the NFL Pro Bowl. Starpower? Check. Pageantry? Yeah, check. Interest? (***crickets***). The event, which comes between the AFC and NFC playoffs, a...
Adaptive Climbing Reaches New Heights with First-of-its-Kind Event
A new championship event coming to Austin, Texas, illustrates the growth of paraclimbing (for athletes with physical challenges) in the U.S. The Parac...
The NCAA Board Approved the Transformation Committee’s Report. What’s Next?
Recently, the SDM Blitz covered the salient points of the report of the NCAA’s Division I Transformation Committee. Among other recommendations, the c...
NFL’s Global Reach Keeps Expanding - Could a European Division Be on Tap?
In its ever-expanding effort to make American football a global sport, the NFL plans to host at least four games in Germany through 2025. What’s more,...
Get Your BID On: 2023-24 5v5 Soccer National Championship
If you have the fields, T2 Sporting has the athletes, families and spectators – and they’re actively looking for hosts of the 2023-24 5v5 Soccer Natio...
Will a New Measles Outbreak Threaten Youth Sports?
A measles outbreak in Ohio has sickened 85 children and hospitalized close to half of those. Doctors say none of those affected had been fully vaccina...
NCAA Names STUNT as its Newest DII Emerging Sport for Women
As STUNT, the team sport that uses cheer skills but removes the crowd-leading aspect, begins its 13th season, it can do so having reached a milestone ...
Inside Events: Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show
This year, the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, America's second-longest continuously held sporting event, will take place on May 8 and 9 at the USTA...
Team Sports Participation Increasing But Not Quite Back to Pre-2020 Levels
New data from the Sports & Fitness Industry Association’s “U.S. Trends in Team Sports Report” for 2022 indicates that while participation numbers are ...