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Nirvana has been named the new travel management services partner for USA Triathlon for athlete and national office travel, supporting USA Triathlon’s National Championship events in collaboration with the national governing body’s hotel booking platform, HotelPlanner. As part of the company’s expansion into North America, the USAT partnership allows Nirvana to continue its support of […]
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The Premier Lacrosse League will switch to a city-based format, announcing eight teams that will be attached to host cities for the league. Since its inception, the league has featured a touring model where teams all play in one location per week. But after evaluating fan voting, broadcast viewership, historical ticketing performance, public census data […]
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Members of a key group of international federations of Olympic sport are expressing concern over the implications of expanding the sports program at the 2028 Olympic Summer Games in Los Angeles. At its final meeting of 2023, the Council of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) discussed the issues related to adding five […]
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XTERRA has announced it will bring its Trail Run World Championship back to Maine’s Sugarloaf Mountain in 2024. The 2024 event will mark 15 years of the championship and will be staged August 30 to September 1, offering a festival-like atmosphere in addition to the racing experience. “Our Board of Directors and local organizing committee […]
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The Sports Division of Northstar Meetings Group, organizer of the TEAMS Conference & Expo, TEAMS Europe, and the EsportsTravel Summit, has opened its bidding process to identify potential host-city partners for TEAMS and the EsportsTravel Summit. The leading conferences for sports-event and esports-event organizers, are open for the following years: TEAMS 2030–2035, and EsportsTravel Summit […]
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At the close of its national championships, USA Pickleball has announced it will reassess plans for the future location of the event. The national governing body hosted the 2023 Biofreeze USA Pickleball National Championships powered by Invited and the PPA Tour at the Brookhaven Country Club near Dallas and said it expects to decide on […]
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Air Force Lieutenant General Richard M. Clark will succeed Bill Hancock as the new executive director of the College Football Playoff as the organization prepares to expand the number of teams that will play in the year-end tournament. “I’m pleased to announce that Lieutenant General Clark has accepted our offer to run the CFP and […]
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Khalid Cannon didn’t have the most direct route to the world of Ivy League athletics, but he certainly made the most of his opportunity. Growing up on a chicken farm in Alabama, his father was incarcerated when he was just a toddler, a development that led him to sports as a youth as an outlet […]
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Read the Fall 2023 Digital Edition of SportsTravel! This issue takes a deep dive into how conference realignment in college sports will have an impact on athlete and fan travel to new destinations, a look into preparations for Formula 1’s debut in Las Vegas and an examination of youth sports safety, among other topics. Included […]
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There is no doubt that participating in youth sports has benefits for more than those playing. A case can be made that the larger society may benefit as well. “When we think about the health benefits, when we think about the leadership benefits, when we think about the social and emotional benefits that can arise […]
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Women’s wrestling will be an official NCAA championship sport after the governing body approved its addition on the Division I, II and III levels.
The Ann Arbor Sports Commission will host its second annual Washtenaw County Celebration of Girls and Women in Sports, a two-day event February 1-2 with a mix of activities, collegiate sports and panel discussions.
.@KemperSports will manage the Bad Boy Mowers @B4AOfficial, a men’s and women’s college basketball tournament held annually at the Atlantis Paradise Island in @VisitTheBahamas.
.@SailGP will have @All as its official hotel partner starting with this weekend’s New Zealand Sail Grand Prix as part of a multi-year agreement.
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