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Baseball coaches around the country now have extra motivation to bring their team to Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in 2024. During a recent visit to the city — where they operate The Ripken Experience Elizabethtown — Ripken Baseball cofounders Cal Ripken, Jr., and Bill Ripken visited the Maker’s Mark Distillery to experience the brand’s first custom barrel […]
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Wade Martin has been named chief executive officer of Josh Harris and David Blitzer’s youth baseball portfolio, which includes Ripken Baseball, Cooperstown All Star Village, Baseball Factory and Softball Factory. Martin is tasked with driving growth and expansion for the company’s youth sports facilities, youth tournament experiences and player development platforms. In January 2023, Harris […]
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The College Baseball Foundation and Visit Overland Park have announced that the College Baseball Hall of Fame will establish its inaugural physical location within the Museum at Prairiefire in Overland Park, Kansas. The planned venue would open in late 2025. The College Baseball Foundation earlier announced it will bring its annual recognition of college baseball’s […]
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As 2024 gets underway, ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd will be continuing their “Sharp Dressed Simple Man Tour,” an amalgamation of ZZ Top’s “Sharp Dressed Man” and Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Simple Man.” It causes me to wish that somewhere, someone would combine Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” with the Beach Boys’ “Caroline, No” to start a “Sweet […]
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The All-Ripken Games will expand in 2024 to seven tournaments throughout the country for youth baseball and softball players at six facilities starting in April. The All-Ripken Games, which debuted in 2023 at four facilities, will culminate with the All-Ripken Futures Games in December, featuring the top players of the season. Players must be nominated […]
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DS Sports Ventures has acquired three existing event companies in the amateur baseball industry in an expansion of the company’s footprint nationally. The newly added entities are Snowbird Baseball, Palm Beach Challenge and USA Premiere Baseball. Snowbird Baseball, established in 2007, has become a cornerstone in hosting 30-plus college teams during the spring season, with […]
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The 2024 ACC Baseball Championship will return to Truist Field in Charlotte from May 21–26, the third time in four years the tournament will be played at the home of the Triple-A Charlotte Knights. “We are incredibly excited that the 2024 ACC Baseball Championship will return to the city of Charlotte, the new home of […]
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John Gall, a 2008 Olympic Summer Games medalist and three-time USA Baseball alumnus, has been elected as president of the national governing body, USA Baseball announced on Thursday. Gall succeeds Mike Gaski, who spent 22 years as president after assuming the position in 2001 and was reelected seven times. “I am humbled and privileged to take […]
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The College Baseball Foundation will bring its annual recognition of college baseball’s top athletes — the Night of Champions — to Overland Park, Kansas, the first time the event will be held in the destination. The February 15, 2024, event will feature the induction of the 2023 College Baseball Hall of Fame class, which will […]
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Perfect Game will hold its 2024 13U and 14U National Showcases at Ballpark of the Palm Beaches in West Palm Beach, Florida. “Both of these National Showcase events are expected to draw a strong contingent of the best baseball players in their age groups to compete against each other,” said Jheremy Brown, director of 13u […]
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.@usatabletennis is bringing back a major event, as the US Open Team Table Tennis Championships will take place August 29–31, 2025, in @MyMyrtleBeach, South Carolina. The event will take place at John T. Rhodes Myrtle Beach Sports Center.
The official logos for the 2026 NCAA Men’s Final Four and 2026 NCAA Division II and Division III men’s basketball championships have been unveiled. Indianapolis and @IndSportsCorp will host all three championships during the same weekend in 2026.
The Golden Trail Series has announced its 2025 schedule of nine international events featuring some of the best trail runners in the world, including a stop in Olympic Valley, California, on June 22.
The @XGames have announced a three-year partnership with California Dreamin' Entertainment which will bring the action sports and music festival to Cal Expo in @VisitSacramento each summer from 2025–2027.
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