Events and Attractions

The USA Track & Field L.A. Grand Prix this weekend “serves as an important checkpoint for the sport’s hope to break out of the four-year popularity cycle.” The two-day event, which began Saturday with the women’s hammer throw, features 18 Olympic or world champions competing primarily at USC’s A...

To watch Freedom 250 card, viewers will “need a Paramount+ subscription, where the event will be exclusively streamed.” This is “by design because, though CBS has aired a little UFC, it is really a Paramount+ property.” The event will “be a spectacle, but with it on a streamer, it has no chance to r...

The weather could prove problematic for Sunday’s UFC Freedom 250 card at the White House, but the fighting property got a perfect scene and thousands of attendees for the first day of its fan fest in D.C. on Saturday. The forecast for D.C. shows a 65% chance of rain this evening with a 39% chance of...

With ticket pricing and availability among the biggest stories at the World Cup, SBJ has partnered with TicketData.com to track get-in price and trends for upcoming games. Here is where things stand as of this morning for the four games to be played Sunday. For information on additional games, visit...

Among the matches on Saturday was Scotland-Haiti at Gillette Stadium, which “appeared to proceed with but a few hiccups.” Traffic getting to the stadium was “reasonable, similar to a Patriots Sunday” (BOSTON GLOBE, 6/14). Meanwhile, thousands of “soccer faithful poured into” Boston’s City Hall Plaza...

Ticket prices for the USMNT’s next two World Cup games have “soared on resale sites after the team’s emphatic win over Paraguay in its opener.” The U.S. will have to wait a week for its second group-stage match, next Friday in Seattle against Australia. For that game, the get-in price on third-party...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- UFC on Friday night held the first of its events at landmarks in the nation’s capital for Sunday’s Freedom 250 card, with a press conference on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Originally scheduled for 8:15pm ET, the press conference was delayed until closer to 9:30pm due to ra...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — If there were a lot of empty seats at SoFi Stadium on Friday night, it was only because so many fans spent much of the game on their feet.

Fans aiming to attend the Canada vs. Bosnia-Herzegovina World Cup match began to “filter in” to Toronto Stadium with “just over two hours to go.” Both fan bases marched to the stadium early on Friday, with The Voyageurs fan group (Canada) marching “from Trinity Bellwoods Park to Toronto Stadium,” wi...

A federal judge on Friday “refused” to stop the White House from staging a UFC event this weekend on the South Lawn following a lawsuit aimed at halting it from going forward. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta‘s ruling allows organizers to “use the White House lawn as the venue” for the card. Mehta con...