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Seven cities have been named finalists to host the respective men’s and women’s Division I Final Fours from 2032-36, the NCAA announced last week. The winning cities will be announced after the NCAA’s summer meetings next July in Naples, Florida, during which the finalists will make presentations to the NCAA staff and committee members. The […]
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Brett Yormark will step down as Big 12 Conference commissioner, the league announced Friday. Yormark has been in the position for over four years, guiding the conference throughout an era of sweeping change in college sports and expanding its membership to 16, among other accomplishments. His tenure will officially end on January 31, 2027. Yormark […]
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The college football season is two weeks old and the sport has already revived its reputation for being delightfully unpredictable. Already this month has featured a controversial, Hail Mary finish between Michigan and Western Michigan at the Big House, a goal-post toppling upset by Oklahoma State over No. 6 Oregon in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and a […]
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Picture this: You’re a college football superfan with an unlimited travel budget, 14 free weekends and a dream to attend the most pivotal games of the season. Where would you go? Here at SportsTravel, we rounded up a weekly list of can’t-miss college football games for that one–of–a–kind, ideal college football season of travel. This […]
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Chris Grosse has been hired as the the new director of sales/chief marketing officer at the Connecticut Convention & Sports Bureau. For the past three years, Grosse had been the senior associate athletic director for external strategy at the University of Connecticut, his alma mater. Grosse will be tasked with generating sports events and “elevating […]
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The Fayetteville Area Convention & Visitors Bureau in North Carolina will launch the Segra Invitational, a new collegiate Division III baseball tournament. The event will be staged February 26–28, 2027, at Segra Stadium in downtown Fayetteville. The inaugural tournament will bring six collegiate baseball programs to Cumberland County, including the local Methodist University. Other teams […]
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Historically, June is a little slower in college towns. Students have mostly departed, and communities from Athens to Eugene can feel more like the smaller villages they once were. Yet for the benefit of every parking space that is suddenly available near campus there is a downside: fewer people using those spaces to go shopping […]
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The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference is out. The Metro Conference is in. Starting July 1 of this year, the 46-year-old league made up of 13 schools in the Northeast is being rebranded, the result of an initiative that began in 2023 with the goal of establishing a more modern identity. “The goal of this project […]
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Flag football has moved to the goal line in its effort the become an NCAA championship. The sport has received a formal recommendation to become the next major collegiate championship, with the first event expected as soon as spring 2028. The NCAA Committee on Access, Opportunity and Impact voted at its spring meeting to recommend […]
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Visit Quad Cities is ready to tee off a major week of hosting championship golf events next month. First, starting Monday, May 11, the National Junior College Athletic Association Division I championship will take place at Oakwood Country Club in Coal Valley, Illinois. That marks the first time the region will host an NJCAA Division […]
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