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Aquinas Women’s Softball will play their home opener of the season this weekend at a new field — Alro Steel Championship Softball Field at the Meijer Sports Complex in Rockford, Michigan. The completed softball field, alongside two flexible-use fields, are the latest milestones that advance the $13.5 million expansion project one step closer to its planned […]
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Fayetteville, North Carolina, has been awarded the 2028 NJCAA Division I Women’s Golf Championship, with the event to be staged at Gates Four Golf & Country Club. The event will be held May 8–11, 2028, and is expected to include 15 teams, attracting an estimated 90 to 120 players. The event is projected to generate […]
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Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to reflect new information. This will be a bumper year for global sports events, with both the Olympic Winter Games in Milano-Cortina and the FIFA World Cup in North America this summer. That will put a spotlight not just on athletes but on new and renovated venues, from […]
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It’s finally here. Six years after winning the right to host the 2026 FIFA men’s World Cup, the tournament will finally kick off this summer across North America. While that event’s return to the U.S. for the first time in 32 years will be the signature domestic sporting event of 2026, there’s plenty more on […]
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Overland Park, Kansas, will now be the “Home of the Heart.” In a three-year partnership announced by Visit Overland Park, the city’s official destination marketing organization, the city will host at least one postseason championship and one marquee conference event for the NAIA’s Heart of America Athletic Conference, commonly known as “the Heart,” through 2028. […]
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Four sports — acrobatics and tumbling; stunt; Division II bowling; and Division III women’s wrestling — were voted to become NCAA championships at this year’s NCAA convention near Washington, D.C., the first time that many championships have been added at a single convention. The first two sports will hold their inaugural championship in the spring […]
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USA Wrestling has announced that it will host its inaugural Women’s Collegiate Club Nationals on March 5 at The Palestra in North Liberty, Iowa, in a move to expand national competition opportunities at the college level for women. The competition will be open to all female student-athletes who participate in club wrestling at a collegiate […]
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The American Volleyball Coaches Association has confirmed that 2026 AVCA First Serve will take place at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee from August 21–23, 2026. AVCA First Serve will mark the beginning of the 2026 women’s volleyball season with six matches featuring eight of the nation’s top college volleyball teams over three days. “Sports Milwaukee is […]
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NFL clubs have voted at the virtual December League Meeting to support the development and launch of a professional flag football league. The landmark decision authorizes 32 Equity, the league’s collective investment vehicle, to enter into an agreement with a partner to operate a professional flag football league and invest up to $32 million in […]
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The first Xbox Bowl college football bowl game will be held in Frisco, Texas, at Ford Center at The Star. The ESPN Events-owned game will be staged December 18 at 9 p.m. ET and will feature Missouri State from CUSA, making its first bowl game appearance, against Arkansas State from the Sun Belt Conference. The […]
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