QUICK HITS The Athletic ($) -- two stories this week caught our eye: Online Gambling: An excellent story about the addictiveness of online gambling. With apps so readily available, it’s worth a read. Hoop Dreams turns 30: If you’re of a certain age, you...
Banana Ball releases 2025 schedule; ticket lottery opens
Banana Ball released its 2025 schedule today, and if you didn’t know better, you might think it was a professional baseball schedule – especially with stops including Yankee Stadium and Fenway Park. Starting on February 1, 2025,...
Schedules galore! NBA, PGA, MLB Spring Training all released
For those of you who love schedule release days – and planning sports travel – this was just about the biggest schedule release week we’ve ever seen. Within 24 hours, the PGA Tour announced its 2025 schedule, the NBA released its...
Dodgers, Cubs to open 2025 season in Tokyo
The tentative 2025 MLB schedule was released today, and amongst the many highlights was one that had been predicted by many for months: the Dodgers will play the Cubs in Tokyo to start the season. The selection of these two clubs is hardly a surprise, as they have a...
Finalissima is (partially) set
With the Euro and Copa 2024 tournaments now with new reigning champions, where does the soccer world turn its attention next? Well, of course, there’s the Olympics in Paris this summer. And all eyes are on the 2026 World Cup being hosted in North America. But it might...
Southwest adds direct NFL flights for 2024 season
It may only be early June, but Southwest Airlines thinks that you’re ready for some football. The carrier announced 21 new flight routes today that will help connect NFL fans from their hometown to their team’s road destination. This comes on the heels of Delta...
College football playoff schedule announced
Well, it’s been only a billion years in the making, but college football will finally have a real playoff system this year. And now we have a schedule – and some locations – to go along with it. The NCAA announced that the first round will be on December 20-21, the...
Pittsburgh lands the 2026 NFL Draft
We say it all the time around here: Pittsburgh is a great city to visit for sports. PNC Park, Acrisure, PPG Paints, Pirates, Steelers, Pens … we absolutely love it. And now the scheduling gods have given us another reason to hop on a plane to the Steel City: the NFL...
Austin’s Q2 Stadium gets 2025 MLS All-Star Game
The MLS league office announced today that the 2025 MLS All-Star Game will be played at Q2 Stadium in Austin, home of Austin FC. The date and time was not announced. Austin FC has been a tremendous success since launching in 2021, and we are big fans of Q2 Stadium....
Banana Ball on tour and to be live streamed in 2024
Have you been thinking about (or trying to) check out the Savannah Bananas in recent years? If so, you know that tickets are hard to come by – they sell out every home game, and let’s face it, getting to Savannah, GA isn’t the easiest task in the world. But fear not,...