{"id":298011,"date":"2026-05-18T10:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/298011\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:41:08","slug":"best-sports-business-cities-no-44-san-antonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/298011\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Sports Business Cities: No. 44 San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/K5REOYIRKRHEZJV6KUTQNBWSB4.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>The Alamodome has been home to the Valero Alamo Bowl since 1993. Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">The 33-year-old Alamodome\u2019s r\u00e9sum\u00e9 includes hosting the Valero Alamo Bowl since 1993, eight NCAA basketball Final Fours and this fall\u2019s Women\u2019s Volleyball NCAA Division I Finals. The city has hosted NCAA, NAIA and National Sports Safety and Security conferences. Locally based Frost Bank, H-E-B, USAA, Valero and Whataburger are all major sports partners.<\/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\/\">#27<\/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-san-antonio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/03\/18\/bsbc-san-antonio\/\">#15<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">2025 Soccer: Not ranked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Alamodome has been home to the Valero Alamo Bowl since 1993. Getty Images The 33-year-old Alamodome\u2019s r\u00e9sum\u00e9&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[108467,108468,5788,10510,1771,39157,82,84,83,1017,7482],"class_list":["post-298011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-best-sports-business-cities","tag-data-and-insights","tag-frost-bank","tag-h-e-b","tag-ncaa","tag-print","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-usaa","tag-whataburger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}