David Broughton

Detroit's busy spring of event-hosting continues this week as the NFL Draft comes to town. The Motor City last month hosted the NCAA Men's Sweet 16, making it one the  SBJ's hottest cities to watch when it comes to recent success in luring and attracting events. Around...

The NHL drew a record 22.9 million fans to its 1,312 games during the 2023-24 season, up 1.9% from the 2022-23 season. Twenty of the league’s 32 teams saw average attendance increase year over year for “true” home games (excluding outdoor and overseas games), while five teams saw...

Total direct spending associated with the sports travel sector was $52.2B and Americans took a record 204.9 million sports event-related trips in 2023, according to the State of the Industry Report that the Sports Events and Tourism Association (Sports ETA) is sharing with its more than 700 members today...

Born: 1958, Greensboro, N.C. Family: Wife, Mary Education: Campbell University, bachelor of business administration in economics (1980) and co-captain of the basketball team two years; Campbell’s Lundy-Fetterman School of Business MBA (1983); also served as a men’s basketball graduate assistant...

The 2024 NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championships are underway in Fort Worth, where the event has been staged since 2019. Dickies Arena is hosting the event for the fourth year of what will be at least a six-year stretch, and the city is anticipating a record number of out-of-town visitors,...

State Farm was the top ad spender during the WNBA Draft prime-time telecast on ESPN for the fourth year in a row, with an all-time high in the number of ads that ran during the broadcasts and brands buying those spots, according to an analysis of iSpot.tv data by...

The Oakland A’s temporary residence in Sacramento could generate approximately $4 million in lodging revenue and more than half a million dollars in related taxes, according to research by Sports Business Journal. The A’s and the Sacramento Kings, the majority owner...

The most anticipated game in minor league baseball this season might involve puffy shirts and chips you can’t double dip, at a ballpark that knows how to take and hold your reservation, where ushers who might have man hands (but...

USA Swimming and TYR the NGB’s exclusive since 2013, unveiled today the National Team Kit for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games at the final stop of the 2024 TYR Pro Swim Series in San Antonio. Most notably, TYR will be the first USA Swimming National...