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Butler and Northwestern will join the field at the fourth annual Indy Classic presented by Indiana Sports Corp, in conjunction with Pacers Sports & Entertainment and Russ Potts Productions, Inc., joining the previously announced matchup of Purdue and Auburn. Auburn and Purdue face off for the fifth time, following last season’s meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, where […]
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Visit St. Pete–Clearwater has announced a partnership with the hometown Tampa Bay Buccaneers which creates a joint campaign and provides VisitSPC the ability to both reach fans across the greater region and market directly to single-game ticket buyers located outside of Tampa–St. Petersburg. The partnership is the first between the brands. The agreement includes in-game […]
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Fans of New Zealand will have a spot in Los Angeles to root on for their athletes during the 2028 Olympic Summer Games as the New Zealand Olympic Committee is nearly a deal with Culver City to have the city serve as its home base. The Culver City Council website says the event will include […]
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Kalamazoo County hotels in Michigan have passed a vote to create funding for a $40 million indoor sports facility that will feature space for eight basketball courts or 16 volleyball courts, as well as an indoor turf field. Kalamazoo hotels approved the creation of the Kalamazoo County Event Center Assessment District. Starting June 1, hotels […]
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FIFA announced eight host venues for the month-long 2027 Women’s World Cup in Brazil on Wednesday but hasn’t decided yet where the opening match and the final will take place. The event will be the first FIFA Women’s World Cup to be held in South America. The eight cities and venues include Belo Horizonte (Estádio […]
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The 2025 Pacific Nations Cup will have matches in Sacramento plus the Denver and Salt Lake City regions as six teams will battle for automatic qualification into the 2027 Men’s Rugby World Cup in Australia. This year’s tournament will include Canada, Fiji, Japan, Samoa, Tonga and the U.S. The top three finishers other than already-qualified […]
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Denver is one of the two finalists to host the 2030 Gay Games, the local bid committee announced this week after submitted an expanded, final bid book to try and bring the international event to the United States for the first time in over a decade. Denver is trying to become the first U.S. city […]
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The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee and Northstar Meetings Group, a division of Northstar Travel Group, have announced a multiyear extension of the agreement that makes the TEAMS Conference & Expo the exclusive home to the USOPC’s annual Olympic and Paralympic SportsLink program. The USOPC’s SportsLink, which has been held in conjunction with TEAMS […]
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Joel Koester has been named the executive director of the new Phoenix Sports and Events Commission and will lead efforts to secure, grow, and host major sporting and entertainment events for the region. Koester most recently served as director of sports sales for the Tulsa Sports Commission, where he played a key role in hosting […]
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According to a report commissioned by Destination Ann Arbor, the 2024 University of Michigan football season generated $226.7 million in direct visitor spending from attendees residing outside Washtenaw County. On average, each home game contributed approximately $28 million in direct visitor spending to the local economy. When modeled to include indirect and induced effects, the […]
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