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Would Coliseum Renovation Be Money Well Spent?

In Memphis, a save-the-Coliseum group insists the old white-domed Mid-South Coliseum would not be too expensive to fix up and renovate for access by people with disabilities.

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Adaptable Aquatics: How to Overcome Seasonality While Protecting Your Budget

DynaDome Retractable Enclosures

Facing growing pressure to balance tight budgets with member expectations, forward-thinking institutions are adopting three key strategies to get the most from their aquatic spaces.

Adaptable Aquatics: How to Overcome Seasonality While Protecting Your Budget

Rec Center Technology: Can You Ever Have Too Much?

The infrastructure that allows recreation directors to meet their constituents’ almost insatiable need for connectivity and entertainment changes so quickly that planners often design technology into a new rec center project later in the process. Otherwis

Today's rec center users crave connectivity more than ever. [Photo by Shutterstock]

City May Convert Rail Line into Bike Path, Public Park

A conceptual rendering of what the Norfolk Southern rail line could look like if converted into a bike path and park. Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley says the project is "a big deal."

Charlotte-Area Lifeguard Drowns in YMCA Pool

A lifeguard at the Lincoln County YMCA in North Carolina was found dead in the facility’s pool early Thursday morning.

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Renovations Push UC Basketball Games to HS Gym

While the University of Cincinnati's Fifth Third Arena is under construction, the men’s team will be playing at Northern Kentucky University’s BB&T Arena, and the women’s team is scheduled to appear at St. Ursula Academy.

New Mexico AD Pursuing Naming Rights Deal for Facility

University of New Mexico's athletic director says he is negotiating a potential "seven-figure" naming rights deal for a school athletic facility, but he has not identified the donor — or the venue.

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Philly Residents Hope to Dodge NFL Draft

The NFL draft may be the Parkway event that breaks Alan Niederman's back. Niederman lives in the Philadelphian, a condominium building on Pennsylvania Avenue across from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and he said he's grown weary of city-planned events o

City Pushed to Create More Soccer-Specific Space

Driven in part by the growing number of Worcester immigrants raised on soccer, the city is being pushed to create more soccer facilities and to increase residents’ access to existing ones.

YMCA to Close Outdoor Pool

The YMCA will sacrifice the popular Bill Bartley Family Branch outdoor pool as it gets ready to take the plunge on a $14 million expansion project.

Virginia Beach Tabs Opening Date for $32M Rec Center

Construction on the 87,000-square-foot Kempsville Recreation Center is in the final stages, and a grand opening is set for June 8, just in time for the kiddos to enjoy the splash zone and zero-entry pool.

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Organized Sports Snapshots from 1977

How have organized sports evolved since Athletic Business first started in 1977? AB senior editor Paul Steinbach counts the ways...

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Residents Debate Sports Complex in Hearing

Supporters of a proposed multi-sport complex at Shawnee Park in Dunbar, W.V., say the project would add much-needed turf fields for the area's sports teams and would be a boost to the area's economy.

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