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Central Location and First-Class Facilities in Saint Charles

Saint Charles' unbeatable location in the historic Missouri River Valley, just a half hour drive from downtown St. Louis, makes it both the ideal vacation spot and sports destination. [...]

Columbia's College Town Makes the Grade with Sports Facilities

With its central location, fantastic facilities and supportive community, Columbia, Missouri is the perfect place to host your next sporting event. [...]

10 Best Soccer Club Complex in the US

Along with soccer-specific stadiums that host Major League Soccer matches such as those found in Portland, Kansas City and Columbus, soccer training complexes are spread throughout the country. These venues contain multiple playing surfaces that are ideal for multi-team tournaments. [...]

Five Top Gymnastics Venues

While watching the sport can sometimes be stressful for fans that don’t want to miss a single flip or landing, the facility where your gymnastics event takes place should be the least of your concerns. Here are five event-friendly gymnasiums from around the U.S. [...]

Small State, Big Winners: Sports Events in Vermont

Towns across the state welcome sports planners to host events of all kinds. [...]

US Sports Congress Rewind

With a knack for attracting new sports event rights holders and destinations, timely educational sessions about topics that are important in today’s marketplace, and an [...]

Best Practices for Activation and Outreach

Sports Planning Guide gives you a best practices guide on how to keep important sports contacts motivated and interested step-by-step. [...]

How to Develop a Sponsorship Prospect List: Phase 1

One thing, if done well and early, can help prevent the logjam that is most sponsorship campaigns and help you sell more of what you so desperately need. [...]

Topeka’s Tops for Sports Travel

Tucked into Kansas’ northwest corner, Topeka is conveniently located for groups that hail from Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska. The city’s draw isn’t just its location, [...]

Lubbock: The Hub of West Texas Sports

Lubbock, Texas offers some of the state’s top sports venues, thanks to Texas Tech University as well as its high school and park systems. The university alone, with 17 [...]

Vallejo Offers a Sunny Welcome for Sports Teams

Vallejo, California, located in the northeast part of the Bay Area, offers a warm, welcoming atmosphere for sports teams from all over the country. It has some of the best [...]

Live the Game in Virginia Beach

With 35 miles of beaches, miles of natural trails and numerous parks, Virginia Beach is primed for recreational activity and athletic events. Sports planners will find not [...]

Bring Your Next Event to Snohomish County

Snohomish County offers the perfect backdrop for any sporting event. It is home to semiprofessional and amateur teams, two community colleges and one NAIA school. [...]

Rockford: Sports Tournament Magnet in Northern Illinois

Rockford boasts several state-of-the-art sporting venues, suitable for whatever type of sporting event you have in mind. [...]

Plano Enjoy the Sports in This City Jewel

Just minutes north of downtown Dallas lies a suburban jewel with huge tournament sport field parks that were actually built into the master plan for the community. The City [...]

Tournament Planners Love Oklahoma City

With facilities such as the ASA Hall of Fame Stadium, the Boathouse District on the Oklahoma River and the Oklahoma City Community College Aquatics Center, a variety of sporting events can take place in Oklahoma City. With 16,000 hotel rooms city-wide, affordable rates and a friendly atmosphere, Oklahoma City is the ideal destination for your next event. [...]

For Sports, Make It Macomb, Illinois

Macomb may not spring to mind as a sports mecca. It doesn’t have the enviable weather of Florida or the cachet of California or the mountain scenery of Colorado. But what it does have will warm any sports travel planner’s heart: location. [...]

Endless Possibilities for McHenry County Sports Events

In McHenry County, Illinois, sports planners find miles of hiking and biking trails, pristine lakes and acres of parks perfect for an array of sports events. [...]

Sports Travel Opportunities in Shreveport-Bossier

The area is home to several large arenas and sports facilities, and it regularly hosts events ranging from NCAA Women’s Basketball to USA Weightlifting National Championships to bass fishing’s Bassmaster Classic tournament. [...]

Ocala/Marion: A True Equestrian Capital

When you think of horses—whether it be breeding and raising or racing and showing them—there are a few locations that come to mind. One that should definitely be on that list—and certainly close to the top—is Ocala/Marion. [...]

Choose St. Bernard Parish for Baseball and Basketball

Chalmette Just nine miles from the heart of New Orleans, you’ll find the town of Chalmette, the seat of St. Bernard Parish and home to one of the state’s most anticipated [...]

Make it Monroe, Louisiana for Your Next Tournament

With the facilities of the university sports complex on hand, sports planners should seriously consider Monroe as more than a place to shop for duck-hunting paraphernalia. [...]

Lincoln Sports Events: The Center of Attention

Lincoln may be the capital of Nebraska and its second largest city, but here sports planners and their teams will not get lost in the crowd. When tournaments or sporting events come to town, the attention is on them. [...]

Knoxville Welcomes Sports Planners

Home to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville has a friendly, young community ready and willing to welcome guests at all times of the year. [...]

Kissimmee Wows Tournament Planners

With a long list of sports facilities and almost-perfect weather, Kissimmee does indeed have much to offer sports travel and event planners. [...]

Conway: Sports Teams Thrive in This College Town

With three institutes of higher education, Conway, Arkansas, is appropriately known as a college town, with a youth-oriented focus that bleeds into many of its activities, including sports events. [...]

Columbia, Missouri: A Sports Planner's Dream

Columbia is conveniently located between Kansas City and St. Louis at Interstate 70 and Highway 63. Just 30 minutes away from state capital Jefferson City and an hour from the Lake of the Ozarks, Columbia’s central location makes for easy access from all areas of the region. [...]