Events and Attractions

The LIV Golf event in New Orleans set for the last week of June “may not be played,” according to sources cited by Mackel & Mackel of New Orleans-based WDSU-NBC. This comes after “weeks of turmoil involving the league and its financial backing.” An official announcement is expected Tuesday. Sour...

Next year’s NFL Draft, set to be held in D.C., has a “goal of having a combined three-day attendance figure of 1 million fans on the National Mall.” The draft will be in the nation’s capital for the first time since 1940. Pittsburgh drew a record attendance of more than 805,000 attendees over three ...

N.Y. Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Monday that each of the city’s five boroughs will host an official FIFA fan fest for the World Cup, featuring “live viewings, local food offerings and more, with no cost to enter.” The fan fests will be held at the Billie Jean King N...

Division Street Events, in partnership with the Japan Gridiron Association, will stage the Tokyo Oregon Football Showcase presented by Flight Club on June 25-27 in Tokyo, which will bring the Univ. of Oregon football team to Japan. The inaugural showcase at The American School in Japan will focus on...

The Open Championship will return to Royal Lytham & St Annes in 2028, with President Trump’s Turnberry “among the courses to miss out,” according to Peter Scrivener of BBC.com. Turnberry last hosted the Open in 2009, which was five years before Trump bought the course. Last year R&A official...

Transportation options for fans traveling from Rhode Island to Foxborough for the 2026 FIFA World Cup are “proving pricey and limited,” raising concerns that visitors and locals alike could “face unnecessarily long travel times and steep costs to attend matches,” according to Alexa Gagosz of the BOS...

Baltimore is about to “lose tens of millions of dollars in visitor spending” as the Preakness leaves Pimlico for at least a year, even as Maryland taxpayers spend more than $500M to “rebuild the city’s ancient racecourse and preserve the event’s long-term future,” according to Barker & Cohn of t...

The K.C. Sports Commission was named Sports Commission of the Year last week in Las Vegas at the Sports Events & Tourism Association (Sports ETA) annual symposium in front of an organization-record 1,200 attendees.

SoFi Center, home to TGL, is available for other functions, from a “private party for 10 or major gala of more than 1,000,” to guests wanting to “try out the building’s biggest attraction,” according to Tom D’Angelo of the PALM BEACH POST. The price point ranges “from $10,000 to more than $100,000.”...

K.C. will “play host to a WNBA preseason game for the first time in over two decades” on Monday when the Lynx play the Nigerian women’s national team at T-Mobile Center, according to Alexa Stone of the K.C. STAR. The last time the WNBA played in K.C. was a preseason matchup between the Lynx and the ...