SDM is proud to announce its 2018 Champions of Economic Impact in Sports Tourism award winners. This year's Champions represent the most notable success stories, thanks to strong and lasting partnerships between event owners and communities. Learn about those partnerships and the events they produced.

The baseball season might be over but in some cities, venues are still getting use - for eSports. As the demand grows, cities across the U.S. are building (or studying the possibility of) designated gaming facilities, with the goal of bringing in a piece of that very profitable pie.

Women's wrestling is one of the fastest-growing sports in the country and the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point has become the latest school to jump on the bandwagon. It's also the first public institution in the Midwest to offer it. Here's an inside look at the growth of the sport.

The desire to run in the 2019 New York City Marathon motivated 500 runners to participate in their own 26.2-mile "virtual" marathons (no treadmills allowed). It's all part of a larger trend event owners are seeing (and capitalizing on) as runners use technology to take part.

When Congress passed the the Safe Sport Act, the hope was that it would spur the prompt reporting of incidents to law-enforcement officials. Yet a recent opinion piece has claimed the act is fraught with problems: Few know it exists, it's not federally funded and may even be unenforceable.

Intense NFL rivalries - coupled with stadium fights and a lawsuit filed by an assaulted Dallas Cowboy fan - have placed increased attention on game-day security. And while it's high-profile sports that have been getting attention, there are take-aways for event owners at the amateur and youth levels.