Press Releases
Detroit’s northeast side is now home to a new soccer mini-pitch, courtesy of Allstate and U.S. Men’s National Team 2022 World Cup Captain Tyler Adams. The mini-pitch was unveiled June 15 at Fisher Magnet Upper Academy, home to a soccer clinic for 7- to 12-year-olds. “As big supporters of soccer and youth empowerment, providing these mini-pitches help create more opportunities for young people while strengthening communities,” said Dan Keats, director of sport
Read more...18 June 2024
Three-time Olympic gold medal winning snowboarder and entrepreneur Shaun White is announcing the launch of the first ever professional winter sports league for snowboarding and freeskiing halfpipe competition, debuting with its first event in the U.S. in early 2025. The Snow League is the future of winter sports competition, featuring a new elite level multi-event global competition format for snowboarding and freeskiing. Launching its first season with five halfpipe events, startin
Read more...18 June 2024
The Board of Directors of the 63-year-old Riverside Hawks Program has announced the appointment of their new Executive Director, Aswan Morris, a former professional basketball player, Harlem resident, and a highly recognized motivational speaker, who is guided by his faith and love of community. Aswan Morris' life and career experiences, combined with his passionate communication style and leadership skills -- makes him an almost perfect fit for this position with the Riverside
Read more...The National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) today honored the Los Angeles Football Club with the Community Impact Award at the 2024 Impact Awards Gala at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. LAFC was recognized for its commitment to multiculturalism and creating change for marginalized communities, which closely aligns with NHMC's mission to eliminate hate, discrimination, and racism toward communities of color. "It is a humbling experience for LAFC to be recognized by NH
Read more...Kuaishou Technology a leading content community and social platform, announced on June 14 that it has entered into a licensing agreement with China Media Group pursuant to which Kuaishou has been granted the on-demand video and short video rights to the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics. In partnership with CMG, Kuaishou will serve as a rights-holding broadcaster for the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics and welcome its community of over 700 million users to "embrace the Olympics on Kuaishou.&qu
Read more...15 June 2024
Manchester United plc will commence work to modernize the men’s first team building at Carrington Training Complex next week, with a focus on creating a high-performance collaborative environment for players and staff. The £50 million project will result in all areas of the building being refurbished to deliver a world-class football facility with a positive culture to support future success. The architectural practice Foster + Partners, led by Manchester-born
Read more...Today, the National Thoroughbred League announced the addition of several key investors to join their roster of team owners, including NBA legend and basketball Hall of Famer Julius Erving and Country Music Hall of Fame inductee Tanya Tucker as the league expands from six franchises to ten ahead of its second season, which will boast almost $3 million in prize purses, up from less than $1 million last year. Erving and Tucker join NTL’s stacked list of partners, including Nel
Read more...The Trust for the National Mall, Humana and the Humana Foundation announced today that the National Mall of Pickleball is returning to America’s Front Yard, the National Mall, for a second year with two additional courts and the professional D.C. Pickleball Team’s newest roster, including Dekel Bar, Rachel Rohrabacher, James Ignatowich and Allyce Jones. This year’s event, happening from September 27 to September 29, 2024, on eleven temporary courts at the JFK Hockey Fields,
Read more...14 June 2024
VersaCourt, an industry leader in designing and manufacturing athletic courts has partnered with Tide Ocean SA, a Swiss supplier of high-quality recycled plastic granules, to make a difference in the sports flooring industry and protect the oceans. Together, they have meticulously developed a sustainable athletic court system made with #tide's recycled ocean-bound plastic material. Specifically, the court is made with tide's recycled polypropylene granules. The very first steps of the
Read more...Chicago Atlantic Admin, LLC annonce avoir agi à titre d’agent administratif pour le financement d’une facilité de crédit garantie de premier rang pour GF Capital Sports Holdings, LLC GF Sports & Entertainment possède et exploite l’Open de Dallas, un tournoi de tennis récemment porté au statut ATP 500, qui accueillera des joueurs de tennis professionnels mondiaux au Ford Center, au complexe The Star, à Frisco, le siè
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