{"id":195472,"date":"2026-05-18T10:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/195472\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:34:07","slug":"best-sports-business-cities-no-32-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/195472\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Sports Business Cities: No. 32 Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">The Iron City, whose three major league teams have a combined tenure of 298 seasons, welcomed an NFL Draft weekend record 805,000 fans in April, and christened Pitt\u2019s $240 million multisport Victory Heights project. In 2027, the city will host its fifth National Collegiate Women\u2019s Bowling Championships, and the TEAMS Conference &amp; Expo in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Previous Rankings<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">2023: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Journal\/Issues\/2023\/03\/20\/In-Depth\/best-sports-business-cities-26-50\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Journal\/Issues\/2023\/03\/20\/In-Depth\/best-sports-business-cities-26-50\/\">#30<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">2024 Event Hosting: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/03\/18\/bsbc-pittsburgh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/03\/18\/bsbc-pittsburgh\/\">Ones to Watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">2025 Soccer: Not ranked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Iron City, whose three major league teams have a combined tenure of 298 seasons, welcomed an NFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[86837,86838,1418,73,75,74,33052],"class_list":["post-195472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-best-sports-business-cities","tag-data-and-insights","tag-nfl","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-print"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}