Don’t even think twice about chewing tobacco at a sports venue in San Francisco. Starting Jan. 1, 2016, that pursuit will be against the law. “Mayor Ed Lee on Friday signed into law an ordinance to prohibit the use of smokeless tobacco at athletic venues, specifically sing

Last week, saw a first for Major League Baseball and to my knowledge, major league sports in the U.S. The Baltimore Orioles played host to the Chicago White Sox at Camden Yards in front of a record crowd of zero fans due to the protests and rioting over Freddie Gray’s tragic death. As

To paraphrase Ferris Bueller: Life moves pretty fast—if you don’t keep up, you could miss out. The venue management industry isn’t immune to the fast-pace of the world around it, which makes a new textbook that much more important. Public Assembly Venue Management: Sports,

We brought up the issue of live-streaming apps a couple of weeks ago here on the blog, and now we have a real-work example of them being used to broadcast a sporting event—the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight on May 2, 2015. “Rather than pay the $100 pay-per-view fee to wat

The Asahi Shimbun is reporting some interesting news about the National Stadium in Tokyo, which is the main facility for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. The paper wrote that the Japan Sport Council invited several companies to participate in seminars about new technology for the stadiu