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ARTICLE Apr 10, 2025
No Lifeguard Shortage? Reimagining May Be Key to Staffing Events
One industry expert would like to go on record: There is actually no lifeguard shortage. There is, however, a problem with lifeguard recruitment that requires a reset on the part of destinations and v...

ARTICLE Mar 27, 2025
Live Rays, Dead Birds and Other Offbeat MLB Factoids
Want a sure sign of spring to distract you from your busted bracket? Major League Baseball has stepped up to the plate. This comes on the heels of an extremely lucrative and well attended spring train...

ARTICLE Mar 27, 2025
State of Stock: The Delicate Balance of Repopulating Fisheries
Fishing tournaments rely on a strong population of aquatic species not only to make tournaments sustainable but to attract amateur anglers and keep them engaged. Stocking, the practice of introducing ...

ARTICLE Mar 27, 2025
New IOC President’s Views Likely to Filter Down to Youth Sports Industry
Former Olympic swimmer Kirsty Coventry broke down multiple barriers when she was elected the 10th president of the IOC. At 41, she is the youngest woman and first African to hold the position. Since I...

ARTICLE Mar 13, 2025
Survey Shows More Players Nationwide, Meaning More Business for Events
With more Americans active than ever before, and with participation numbers higher than even 2019, the outlook is very good for the sports tourism industry. That’s the takeaway from the recently publi...

ARTICLE Apr 24, 2025
Takeaways for Event Owners from the New Olympic Team Mixed Golf
The IOC’s addition of Mixed Team Golf to the Olympic program at Los Angeles in 2028 has created the first Olympic golf team competition since the 1904 games. Golf is now one of six sports (along with ...

ARTICLE Apr 24, 2025
From Shot Skis to Pond Skims, Shenanigans Mark End of Ski Season
Yeah, we know. Ski resorts are hawking special advance discounts if people buy passes for next year’s ski season. But what everyone REALLY wants to know is, of course, this: Who is planning what crazy...

ARTICLE Apr 24, 2025
Lawmakers Reintroduce Bills to Help Bolster Youth Sports Facilities
Enhancing youth sports facilities and increasing access to them are the dual focus of two new pieces of fairly new bipartisan federal legislation that would make youth sports facilities eligible for g...

ARTICLE Apr 14, 2025
Iditarod Survives Threats to Future Runnings… for Now
For a while, the question was whether the 2025 version of The Last Great Race on Earth would be the very last. The Iditarod, one of Alaska’s longest-running traditions, was in financial jeopardy. A lo...

ARTICLE Apr 10, 2025
FIFA Women’s World Cup to Make a Return Trip to the USA in 2031
The Women’s World Cup is on its way back to the United States. FIFA has confirmed that the USA will host the event in 2031, with the United Kingdom hosting in 2035. Is it a lock? Well, the USA’s was t...

ARTICLE Apr 10, 2025
No Lifeguard Shortage? Reimagining May Be Key to Staffing Events
One industry expert would like to go on record: There is actually no lifeguard shortage. There is, however, a problem with lifeguard recruitment that requires a reset on the part of destinations and v...

ARTICLE Mar 27, 2025
Live Rays, Dead Birds and Other Offbeat MLB Factoids
Want a sure sign of spring to distract you from your busted bracket? Major League Baseball has stepped up to the plate. This comes on the heels of an extremely lucrative and well attended spring train...

ARTICLE Mar 27, 2025
State of Stock: The Delicate Balance of Repopulating Fisheries
Fishing tournaments rely on a strong population of aquatic species not only to make tournaments sustainable but to attract amateur anglers and keep them engaged. Stocking, the practice of introducing ...

ARTICLE Mar 27, 2025
New IOC President’s Views Likely to Filter Down to Youth Sports Industry
Former Olympic swimmer Kirsty Coventry broke down multiple barriers when she was elected the 10th president of the IOC. At 41, she is the youngest woman and first African to hold the position. Since I...

ARTICLE Mar 13, 2025
Survey Shows More Players Nationwide, Meaning More Business for Events
With more Americans active than ever before, and with participation numbers higher than even 2019, the outlook is very good for the sports tourism industry. That’s the takeaway from the recently publi...

ARTICLE Apr 24, 2025
Takeaways for Event Owners from the New Olympic Team Mixed Golf
The IOC’s addition of Mixed Team Golf to the Olympic program at Los Angeles in 2028 has created the first Olympic golf team competition since the 1904 games. Golf is now one of six sports (along with ...

ARTICLE Apr 24, 2025
From Shot Skis to Pond Skims, Shenanigans Mark End of Ski Season
Yeah, we know. Ski resorts are hawking special advance discounts if people buy passes for next year’s ski season. But what everyone REALLY wants to know is, of course, this: Who is planning what crazy...

ARTICLE Apr 24, 2025
Lawmakers Reintroduce Bills to Help Bolster Youth Sports Facilities
Enhancing youth sports facilities and increasing access to them are the dual focus of two new pieces of fairly new bipartisan federal legislation that would make youth sports facilities eligible for g...

ARTICLE Apr 14, 2025
Iditarod Survives Threats to Future Runnings… for Now
For a while, the question was whether the 2025 version of The Last Great Race on Earth would be the very last. The Iditarod, one of Alaska’s longest-running traditions, was in financial jeopardy. A lo...

ARTICLE Apr 10, 2025
FIFA Women’s World Cup to Make a Return Trip to the USA in 2031
The Women’s World Cup is on its way back to the United States. FIFA has confirmed that the USA will host the event in 2031, with the United Kingdom hosting in 2035. Is it a lock? Well, the USA’s was t...