Events and Attractions

The NHL’s annual Club Business Meetings presented by Ticketmaster opened Monday in Denver with a record attendance of more than 1,300 representatives from all 32 clubs and the league office, marking the largest gathering in the event’s more than 30-year history. Hosted by the Avalanche, the July 13-...

Fanatics potentate Michael Rubin has acknowledged that the original 2024 Fanatics Fest was a marketing “investment” that lost $15 million in its initial year. Version 3.0, which opens Thursday at Manhattan’s Javits Center, should get into the black, according to Lance Fensterman, the former Comic-Co...

President Trump on Monday welcomed IndyCar stakeholders to D.C. to tout the upcoming Freedom 250 Grand Prix on Aug. 22-23, saying the Penske team “held more than 80 meetings in 90 days on Capitol Hill to get this event to happen.” At a presser that featured IndyCar series owner Roger Penske; Freedom...

HOF broadcaster JP Dellacamera said that he “has called his last World Cup game, and that it is his choice,” after calling 11 men’s World Cups and seven women’s World Cups, according to Jonathan Tannenwald of the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. Dellacamera -- whose last game was Switzerland-Algeria in the Ro...

The “outsized” U.S. viewership for this year’s World Cup has made one thing clear: “there will be no more discounts” for the tournament’s media rights going forward, according to Noble, Wilhelm & Agini of the FINANCIAL TIMES. Fox paid $485M for English-language U.S. rights for this year’s World ...

FIFA will sell the grass that will be used for Sunday’s World Cup final at N.Y. N.J. Stadium at $450 per piece, according to the AP. FIFA’s store said that “each segment of turf is 17.5 by 17.5 by 17.5,” although it “doesn’t specify whether that figure is inches, centimeters or millimeters.” The org...

FIFA President Gianni Infantino is “facing a future as a ‘lame-duck Fifa president’” after the controversy over USMNT F Folarin Balogun’s ban being lifted following President Trump’s intervention, according to Martyn Ziegler of the London TIMES. Several countries that had backed Infantino’s re-elect...

The World Cup has actually played out as a “summer version of March Madness,” delivering “an epic Final Four of blue bloods who have all proven they can go the distance: France, Spain, England, and Argentina,” according to Robinson & Clegg of the WALL STREET JOURNAL. Never before in the modern h...

The world’s soccer fans “have taken to” K.C., the smallest American host of these World Cup games, “succumbing to the charms of its Midwesterners, its artisan barbecue and its long, but largely overlooked, history with the ‘beautiful game,’” according to Joe Drape of the N.Y. TIMES. Local boosters s...

As of Sunday afternoon, a single ticket from third-party vendors for Argentina-England at Atlanta Stadium “started at around $3,000 each, including taxes and fees,” according to Rod Beard of the ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION. That is for “a seat in the 300 section,” the highest level in the stadium (...