By R.V. Baugus Venue managers will tell you that they find their most sleepless nights happen when they worry about keeping their guests safe. When word came down from the National Basketball Association the night of Wednesday, March 11, that the season was being suspended due to the

By Brian Wright As I look back on my first 10 years in the venue management industry, I realize that the one common aspect of each of my roles has been internships. Heck, I did four of them during college with Finley Stadium, Chattanooga Lookouts, The Ripken Experience, and the Chatta

By R.V. Baugus “Hey, R.V., it’s Rachel at the Alamodome. Where are you?” Two long-time friends and I had started our drive from Dallas to San Antonio the morning of March 12 to enjoy what had become a new tradition — watching the Texas boys’ state high school basketball tourname

By R.V. Baugus ASM Global announced the hiring of Taki Pappas as director of Event Booking and Business Development for the KFC Yum! Center, Lynn Family Stadium and Norton Health Sports Athletics & Learning Center in Louisville, Kentucky. “As we continue to solidify the Louisvill

By R.V. Baugus The images that came across from the path of tornadoes that ravaged Middle Tennessee hit home as eerily similar to the destruction that tornadoes caused in the Dallas area last October. There was one major difference: the ones in Tennessee resulted in the deaths of 25 p