Sports Marketing and Entertainment Management

PRLog Right To Play, a global organization that uses sport and play programs to educate and empower children facing adversity, announced that their Big Red Ball netted $1.6 Million including on-site donations on Tuesday April 29 at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan. Over 25 Olympic athletes came to show their support of the 20th anniversary of…

The Des Moines Register The gymnastics event that helped mold and propel Olympic gold medal-winners Shawn Johnson, Jordyn Wieber and Kyla Ross is coming to Des Moines. Iowa has landed the 2015 U.S. Women’s National Junior Olympic Championships, which is expected to attract 500 of the country’s top gymnasts May 15-16 at Hy-Vee Hall in…

USA Diving David Boudia (Noblesville, Ind./West Lafayette, Ind.) finished fourth in Sunday’s men’s 10-meter final at the FINA Diving World Series at the London Aquatics Centre where he won Olympic gold in 2012. Boudia scored 532.55 points in the final, which was won by China’s Yang Jian with 616.50 points. China also claimed silver as…

Examiner Erin Hamlin made American history at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia by capturing the nation’s first ever Winter Games medal in singles luge. The native New Yorker’s bronze-worthy finish came during her third stint as an Olympian and a whopping five years after she ended a 99-race win streak by German athletes to take the 2009…