Well, here’s a new trend for you. Following a sold-out Barclays Center crowd in Brooklyn, New York, for the Overwatch League Grand Finals is news that some parents are hiring personal coaches for their kids in eSports. College scholarships and pro careers are the goal.

If parents haven’t put a measles vaccine on their back-to-school shopping list, organizers of fall sports need to know about it. A measles outbreak in (at last count) 21 states has officials concerned – particularly since there seem to be more patients than last time.

And the hits just keep on coming. Earlier this month, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (a research institute in the Bronx) released some bombshell news: women who head a soccer ball can sustain five times more damage than men. And event owners should be ready for the bounce-back.

Strike three, ball four – there are more numbers in baseball than meet the eye. Here are some great stats from the Little League World Series, which goes up to bat in less than a week. (Did you know 25 MLB players were once in the LLWS? Now you do.)

Lawsuits alleging negligence of sports venue operators are hardly news – although they’re certainly hotly contested when they arise. One such suit, however, has managers taking notice, particularly since the circumstances are gruesome. It involves a death caused by the ‘brain-eating amoeba,’ a park lake and a big ripple effect.

The tide is turning in parts of Florida and that's not a good thing for planners of water-based sports events. The state is dealing with a toxic algae problem variously called "red tide" and "green slime." It's leaving dead sea life in its wake – and it’s killing tourism.