Events and Attractions
Miami-Dade to run free shuttles to World Cup matches
Miami-Dade County will run “free game‑day shuttles from four transit hubs to Hard Rock Stadium during the 2026 FIFA World Cup to ease traffic and parking pressure for the seven matches scheduled in South Florida.” The county announced that verified ticket holders will have access to free transportat...
PGA Championship purse raised to $20.5M
The purse for this weekend’s PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club is $20.5M, with $3.69M going to the winner. Last year, the PGA Championship ranked third among the four majors with a purse of $19M. The U.S. Open awarded $21.5M, while the Masters paid out $21M. The Open Championship’s purse was $...
Preakness Stakes betting down 8% from last year
Total commingled betting on the Preakness Stakes at Laurel Park on Saturday was “down 8 percent compared to strong betting on the race last year.” The $61.9M bet this year, including all multi-race wagers ending in the Preakness, was well short of last year’s $67.3M, the second-highest amount bet on...
Rousey makes $2.2M for Netflix fight
Ronda Rousey had said her Saturday fight with Gina Carano would set a purse record for female fighters and called the bout “a landscape-shifting moment for the sport.” Pay for all fighters on the card had been a significant issue during the leadup to the event. According to the California State Athl...
Rousey sees quick victory in Netflix’s MMA debut
The return to MMA of Ronda Rousey after a decade away and the announcement of the return of Conor McGregor after five years away happened in the same night, perhaps not coincidentally. Rousey “followed the method that defined her entire career ... finding an arm and taking it home in a heartbeat,” t...
PGA Championship: Takeaways from Aronimink
It was a mostly quiet start to the week at the PGA Championship near Philadelphia, but three themes emerged from the ground at Aronimink Golf Club, reports SBJ’s Josh Carpenter:
FBI plans to deploy trained officers to mitigate hostile drones during World Cup
The FBI “plans to deploy roughly 60 specially trained state and local police officers across venues” for the FIFA World Cup to “detect and electronically disable hostile drones.” Training is “already underway” with less than four weeks until the tournament starts. A source said that officers from ag...
Rousey: Carano fight to set women’s purse record, challenge UFC’s MMA dominance
MMA fighter Ronda Rousey said that her fight with Gina Carano “will set a new purse record for female fighters” when they meet Saturday at Intuit Dome, with the bout set to be streamed on Netflix. Rousey “championed her bout with Carano as a landscape-shifting moment for the sport” and also “took ai...
Laurel Park set for big one-time moment in hosting Preakness Stakes
The Preakness Stakes will be held at Laurel Park for the “first and only time” Saturday, while the race’s traditional Baltimore home Pimlico Race Course undergoes renovations and it is a big moment for Laurel Park. It is also a “bit of a last hurrah,” as Laurel Park will cease operations as a racetr...
North America’s soccer boom accelerates ahead of World Cup
North America, “long considered soccer’s last great unconquered market,” has embraced the game to a “stunning degree” over the past few decades -- and the upcoming FIFA World Cup “could accelerate that boom,” according to Andrew Marszal of SOCCER AMERICA. The surge in popularity is “matched by an ex...
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