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LA28 Venues
Among the venues LA28 will utilize is swimming at SoFi Stadium, which garnered major social media buzz upon its announcement. Renderings via LA28

LA28 Swimming Set for SoFi Stadium; Softball Heading to Oklahoma City

The 2028 Olympic Summer Games will have multiple sports organized in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, while the long-whispered reports of swimming heading to SoFi Stadium were confirmed by LA28 organizers on Friday morning, meaning that athletics will be held immediately after the Opening Ceremony with swimming in the second half of the Games, bucking long-time tradition. […]

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Sports Engine SFC

SportsEngine Play, SFC Partner on Venue Streaming

SportsEngine Play, NBC Sports Next’s new youth and amateur sports streaming platform, and the Sports Facilities Companies have announced a multi-year video streaming partnership at SFC-managed sports venues each year. The partnership signals SportsEngine Play’s entry into the facilities market, providing game and event streaming opportunities for SFC’s 60-plus managed venues. A Sports Events & […]

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Liberty Sky Basketball
New York's Breanna Stewart drives to the basket as Chicago's Angel Reese defends during the second half of a WNBA game in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

WNBA Commissioner’s Cup Final Moved to UBS Arena

The WNBA Commissioner’s Cup championship game between the New York Liberty and Minnesota Lynx on June 25 will be at UBS Arena in Long Island because the NBA Draft makes the Barclays Center unavailable, the league announced. The draft is the next night and there wouldn’t be enough time to change over the arena. The […]

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Rickwood Field Front
Rickwood Field still has a lot of its original architecture and plenty of old school charm. Photo courtesy of the GBCVB

Major League Baseball, Rickwood Field to Spotlight Negro League Greats

Rickwood Field is a bucket list location for any baseball fan and June 20, the world will get the full experience of the oldest professional ballpark in the United States. The field in Birmingham, Alabama, which opened in 1910, has seen 180 future Baseball Hall of Famers compete on its hallowed grounds. Now, Rickwood Field […]

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Synovus Park

Columbus Breaks Ground on $50 Million Baseball Stadium Renovation

Baseball is returning to Columbus, Georgia, as the city celebrated a groundbreaking at the newly-named Synovus Park on June 11 that will allow Minor League Baseball to return to the Columbus area for the first time in 17 years when the Mississippi Braves — Double A affiliate of the Atlanta Braves — move to Georgia […]

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Saratoga Racetrack
The historic Saratoga Race Course is the oldest continuously running racecourse in the United States, opening in 1863. Photo courtesy of Discover Saratoga/Michael Gallitelli

Saratoga Springs Prepares for its Moment in the Winner’s Circle

The buzz around Saratoga Springs, New York, started about a year ago and now the excitement is reaching a fever pitch. The city with a population of around 30,000 will host the biggest sporting event in its history this weekend when the Belmont Stakes, the third jewel in horse racing’s Triple Crown, takes place at […]

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CFP Playoff schedule

College Football Bowl Schedule, Including 12-Team CFP Playoff, Released

The 2024–2025 college football bowl season of 44 games will start the second weekend of December with the opening weekend of the expanded College Football Playoff starting a week later on December 20. “We’re thrilled to announce the full slate for all 44 bowl games next season,” said Nick Carparelli, executive director of Bowl Season. […]

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Sun Valley Resort
Sun Valley Resort in Idaho will host the Stifel Sun Valley Finals in 2025. Photo by Steve Kornreich/U.S. Ski & Snowboard

FIS Confirms 11 World Cup Events in U.S. in 2024–2025 season

There will be 11 FIS World Cups in the United States for the 2024–2025 season, headlined by the first ever back-to-back men’s and women’s FIS Alpine World Cup speed races on the Birds of Prey track at Beaver Creek, Colorado, and the FIS Alpine World Cup Finals at Sun Valley Resort in Idaho. “We are […]

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Williamsburg Sports & Events Center

KemperSports to Manage Williamsburg Sports & Events Center

KemperSports will manage the Williamsburg Sports & Events Center, a Virginia facility scheduled to open in 2026. KemperSports Venues, a division of KemperSports, will manage the center after being selected by the Historic Triangle Recreational Facilities Authority, a partnership between the city of Williamsburg, James City County and York County. Once complete, the Williamsburg Sports […]

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Henderson Rendering

Henderson Plans for $70 Million Indoor Sports Complex

Henderson, Nevada, has announced plans for a $70 million indoor sports complex has been presented for final approval at a July 2 City Council meeting. The planned 180,000 square-foot, two-level complex is anticipated to have basketball courts that can convert to other uses such as volleyball and pickleball; hybrid turf fields for indoor soccer, box […]

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