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Golden Years By Greg Echlin Some experts contend that the NBA needs its glamour teams like the Los Angeles Lakers or New York Knicks to go deep into the playoffs in order to sustain high interest in the league and boost television ratings. The presence of either team, the theory holds, is a boon not […]

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The South Shows Off For Events By Rachel Carter The South arguably boasts some of the nation’s best music, tastiest food and richest culture—factors that are just as important to event organizers as the region’s wealth of sports fields and tournament venues and mild year-round temperatures. Lakes and rivers, bays and bayous serve as venues […]

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Outdoor Thrills By John Conroy Eight years after its first Winter Classic set the standard for open-air drama on ice, the National Hockey League will bring the New Year’s Day event back to the Boston area in 2016 and showcase its coveted Coors Light Stadium Series in two new cities—Denver and Minneapolis. Billed as a […]

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Packing Them In By Greg Echlin The 2014 college football season ended with a memorable festival in the Dallas–Fort Worth area revolving around the College Football Playoff national championship game in January. The events were so popular that—as any uninvited party guest would feel—others now feel inclined to be included. And so, as another season […]

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Celebrating Events in the Mid-Atlantic By Rachel Carter The Mid-Atlantic knows how to pack them in. From New York City to Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, no city is very far from another, and unlike the sprawling American West, here teams can drive across four states in less than four hours. Alternately, any number […]

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The Big Stage of the Pacific By Rachel Carter Sometimes the best locations are the hardest to reach. Rare is the exotic destination that doesn’t require a long flight and maybe some extra driving. But as athletes know, rewards don’t come without challenges. And taking teams to a subarctic city surrounded by Alaskan wilderness or […]

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By Vanessa Hughes From the Grand Slams to the Olympics and from the U.S. Open Series to World Tennis Day, there are more options to play and watch tennis than ever before and an impressive number of developments that will continue to keep the sport in the spotlight over the next several years. As a […]

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Diving In To Global Destinations By Rachel Carter Around the world, sports reveal as much about a country as its food, art or religion. Accordingly, the way a destination builds new sports venues, or puts to continued use its existing ones, speaks volumes about its eagerness to be a visible part of the global sports […]

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A Chance to Impress By John Conroy Called “Invade,” the kinetic 60-second commercial highlights the excitement that organizers of the Toronto Pan American and Parapan American Games expect throughout southern Ontario this summer. In the commercial, a pair of fencers thrust and parry at Oakville Harbour. Soccer players chase balls through the forest near Hamilton. Taekwondo […]

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A Region In Sync With Events By Rachel Carter From historic venues that tell a story of the past to newly built structures that welcome their first athletes, New England provides endless options for sports events. New England is the cradle of America. With nearly half of the nation’s original 13 colonies, it makes sense […]

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