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Atlantic City, New Jersey, will remain home of the U.S. Open Pool Championship at Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City from August 19–24 in partnership with Caesars Entertainment and the Atlantic City Sports Commission. Held for the fourth time at the New Jersey casino, the U.S. Open Pool Championship is the longest running major in the sport […]
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The 42nd Race Across America, a 3,000-mile race across the United States, will start June 18 in Oceanside, California, and end on June 24 at the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The Race Across America is open to solo riders as well as 2-, 4- and 8-person teams. Solo racers must qualify by completing […]
Continue ReadingDEEM Enterprises has announced its first esports competition to take place in January 2024 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, featuring NFL athletes JuJu Smith-Schuster, Marquise Brown and Kurt Benkert. DEEM will host the event with World Champion Fantasy, a technology company developing PlayerX, an online esports platform that enables users to compete, […]
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USA Pickleball, in conjunction with the Atlantic City Sports Commission and Visit Atlantic City, has announced the third annual USA Pickleball Indoor National Championships will be held September 19-23 at the Atlantic City Convention Center. The event will be hosted by the Atlantic City Pickleball Open and include five days of competition featuring singles, doubles […]
Continue ReadingMeet AC, Atlantic City’s destination meetings and events marketing organization, has launched its new branding as Visit Atlantic City with a coinciding website at visitatlanticcity.com. Over the past year, industry agency Simpleview worked with Meet AC to define a new brand for the organization, considering the research insights conducted by Destination Analysts. Visit Atlantic City’s […]
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The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference has signed a one-year contract extension with Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall to host the league’s basketball championships through 2023 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The 2021–2022 season for the conference ends with the men’s and women’s tournaments at the historic venue from March 8–12. Boardwalk Hall was selected to host […]
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The U.S. Supreme Court has had more than a passing influence in the world of sports. Whether it was the 1972 Curt Flood case that upheld Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption, a 1984 antitrust case involving the NCAA that allowed conferences to sell their own TV rights and paved the way for gigantic media rights […]
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Meet AC in Atlantic City, New Jersey, has named industry veteran Larry Sieg as its new president and CEO. Sieg will succeed Jim Wood, who announced that he would leave the bureau in late 2019. Sieg will begin the new position on July 13. “We are excited to welcome Larry to Meet AC,” said Meet […]
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The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference takeover of Atlantic City, New Jersey, for a week’s worth of college tournaments will include the league’s inaugural esports championship, sponsored by the New Jersey Army National Guard. The event will be March 13–14 at the Adrian Phillips Theater at Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. The MAAC esports […]
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Northstar Meetings Group has announced six future sites for the TEAMS Conference & Expo, the world’s largest gathering of sports-event organizers, taking its annual event to a half-dozen markets reflecting a variety of destinations that host sports events throughout the United States. Attendees at TEAMS, which include the gatekeepers to the 90.4 million room nights […]
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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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