Blackmun, USOC Headline '13 SBA Winners Sports Business Award Winners React Twitter Responds To SBAs McNair Key In Houston Super Bowl Bid Stadium Kept South Florida From Getting SB Super Bowls L, LI Go To Santa Clara, Houston Indy, Altanta, New England Eye Future Super Bowls Bruton Smith Backs Off CMS Threat NFL Set To Award Super Bowl Sites Charlotte Cup Race Could Move To Vegas
Upcoming Conferences and Events
Featured Story
Scott Blackmun, USOC The Big Winners From Last Night's Sports Business Awards05 / 23 / 13The sixth annual Sports Business Awards had a decided Olympic feel to them, as the USOC was named Sports League of the Year, beating the NFL, NBA, MLB and PGA Tour, while USOC CEO Scott Blackmun took home the award for Sports Exec of the Year. The recognition was the culmination of a... Tags: Events and Attractions |
More Stories
Race Directors Grapple With Security Concerns
The Boston Marathon bombings have “already raised a chilling and perhaps unanswerable question for organizers of other major road races: how to better police events that can include tens of thousands of runners and millions of spectators spread across miles of roads,” according to Ken Be ...
Tags: Events and Attractions
N.Y. Super Bowl Security Plan In Place
New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority President & CEO Wayne Hasenbalg said that the Boston Marathon bombing “hasn’t triggered immediate action” by Super Bowl XLVIII planners “because the security committee has been working on anti-terrorism measures for the past tw ...
Tags: Events and Attractions, NFL
SFF: Teams Need To Maintain Fan Engagement
The challenges of keeping fans engaged with pro sports was a big topic during the opening session of the '13 Sports Facilities & Franchises Symposium, which featured D'Backs President & CEO Derrick Hall and Sabres President Ted Black. Hall said that personally engaging D'Backs fans is a big ...
Tags: Events and Attractions
London Marathon Still On As Scheduled
The London Marathon “will go ahead as planned this Sunday despite fears over the safety of runners and spectators following the explosions” at the Boston Marathon yesterday, according to Nick Pearce of the London TELEGRAPH. U.K. Sports Minister Hugh Robertson said that there was “n ...
Tags: Events and Attractions
Race Directors Reassess Security Measures
Event directors around the world will “face heightened pressure to tighten security at outdoor competitions that draw tens of thousands of spectators” in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, but the task “won’t be easy,” according to Helliker & Barrett of the W ...
Tags: Events and Attractions
BAA Forced To Alter Marathon Course
As the Boston Athletic Association yesterday "shut down" the '13 Boston Marathon in the wake of bombings near the finish line around 2:50pm ET, runners were "diverted off the race course and onto Commonwealth Avenue, as police and ambulances rushed to the scene," according to Amalie Benjamin of the ...
Tags: Events and Attractions
RSE Ventures Plans Int'l Soccer Tourney
La Liga club Real Madrid, Serie A club Juventus and MLS Galaxy are “three of the eight teams that will take part in the U.S. this summer in the first edition of an annual knockout tournament,” according to Grant Wahl of SI.com. The new tournament, which “is being called the Interna ...
Tags: Events and Attractions, Soccer
America's Cup Organizers Face Local Backlash
With less than three months before the start of the America's Cup races in S.F., locals are “lining up lawyers, insisting on written contracts about concert hours and signing petitions to shame" Oracle Founder & CEO Larry Ellison "into covering the city's bills,” according to Julia P ...
Tags: Events and Attractions
French Open Announces Prize Money Increases
Prize money at the French Open “will rise significantly for both singles champions and players who lose in some of the early rounds,” according to Douglas Robson of USA TODAY. Roland Garros organizers today said that the “overall total for the tournament will go from" $24.6M l ...
Tags: Tennis, Events and Attractions
Eugene Lands '16 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials
Eugene, Ore., will host the ’16 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials at Hayward Field, marking the “sixth time that the prestigious event will be held” in the city, according to Curtis Anderson of the Eugene REGISTER-GUARD. The Trials are scheduled for July 1-10. The city most rec ...
Tags: Events and Attractions
