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ARTICLE Mar 01, 2025
Soccer Steps Up Its Game
An estimated 265 million people in more than 200 countries play soccer, making it the most popular sport in the world. And because the number of events offered each year continues to grow, the need fo...

ARTICLE Mar 01, 2025
Water Supply
Swimming is contested at multiple levels, from youth to masters, from Olympic races to rec meets and from high school to college (and everywhere in between). The one commonality is the need for aquati...

ARTICLE Feb 27, 2025
USTA Grants Could Help Areas Needing New/Improved Tennis Facilities
The USTA has set an audacious goal: To have 35 million new tennis players in the U.S. by 2035. Central to that is ensuring there are enough courts for people to use, and as it turns out, the USTA has ...

ARTICLE Feb 27, 2025
Coastal Sports Destinations Playing Up the Lure of Shipwrecks, Pirates
Coastal sports destinations have long played up their history which includes shipwrecks and pirates. This, in turn, can create educational, as well as profitable, side trips for visiting athletes and ...

ARTICLE Feb 13, 2025
What Can Sports Tourism Learn from the Top Road Races?
Road racing as an industry just keeps setting its own personal bests. In 2024 alone, the world record for largest marathon ever was broken twice: first in Berlin, then in NYC where more than 56,000 ru...

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 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 13, 2025
Four Different Approaches to Funding Sports Facilities
The difference between the sports facility that welcomes sports events and the one that languishes on the drawing board is all too often a matter of funding. Recently, four destinations made news with...

ARTICLE Mar 01, 2025
Watch the Birdie
There were nearly 16,000 golf courses at 14,000 golf facilities in the U.S. at the end of 2023, according to the National Golf Foundation. The organization also reports about 75 percent of facilities ...

ARTICLE Mar 01, 2025
Need a Go-To? Here’s Who’s Who
Sometimes, what an event owner needs is a fresh start: A new destination and, of course, a new partner to help out with everything. On the next few pages, SDM has compiled the definitive go-to guide w...

ARTICLE Mar 01, 2025
Soccer Steps Up Its Game
An estimated 265 million people in more than 200 countries play soccer, making it the most popular sport in the world. And because the number of events offered each year continues to grow, the need fo...

ARTICLE Mar 01, 2025
Water Supply
Swimming is contested at multiple levels, from youth to masters, from Olympic races to rec meets and from high school to college (and everywhere in between). The one commonality is the need for aquati...

ARTICLE Feb 27, 2025
USTA Grants Could Help Areas Needing New/Improved Tennis Facilities
The USTA has set an audacious goal: To have 35 million new tennis players in the U.S. by 2035. Central to that is ensuring there are enough courts for people to use, and as it turns out, the USTA has ...

ARTICLE Feb 27, 2025
Coastal Sports Destinations Playing Up the Lure of Shipwrecks, Pirates
Coastal sports destinations have long played up their history which includes shipwrecks and pirates. This, in turn, can create educational, as well as profitable, side trips for visiting athletes and ...

ARTICLE Feb 13, 2025
What Can Sports Tourism Learn from the Top Road Races?
Road racing as an industry just keeps setting its own personal bests. In 2024 alone, the world record for largest marathon ever was broken twice: first in Berlin, then in NYC where more than 56,000 ru...

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 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 13, 2025
Four Different Approaches to Funding Sports Facilities
The difference between the sports facility that welcomes sports events and the one that languishes on the drawing board is all too often a matter of funding. Recently, four destinations made news with...

ARTICLE Mar 01, 2025
Watch the Birdie
There were nearly 16,000 golf courses at 14,000 golf facilities in the U.S. at the end of 2023, according to the National Golf Foundation. The organization also reports about 75 percent of facilities ...

ARTICLE Mar 01, 2025
Need a Go-To? Here’s Who’s Who
Sometimes, what an event owner needs is a fresh start: A new destination and, of course, a new partner to help out with everything. On the next few pages, SDM has compiled the definitive go-to guide w...
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