Doug Bland, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Date of Birth: 14-Jul-1970
Place of Birth: Marseilles, Illinois, United States
Profession: businessperson
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Doug Bland
- Doug Bland is an American Entrepreneur and former athlete.
- After college Bland moved to Southern California where he lived in Newport Beach.
- Bland began his career in event Marketing with Ritz Entertainment, producers of Music Festivals and sporting events.In In 1996 Bland was named the Marketing Manager of the Roger Penske owned California Speedway in Fontana California, where he stayed in that position until he was promoted to Marketing Director for the Penske / ISC owned Homestead-Miami Speedway in 1998.
- Penske Motorsports was sold to International Speedway Corporation in 2000 and that is when Bland went on his own and formed Short Track Entertaniment, Inc. Bland Purchased the UDTRA United Dirt Track Racing Association in 2002 and re-branded the property into the Xtreme Dirt Series.
- In 2003 Bland signed TV rights deal with Speed Channel and signed a 10-year sponsorship agreement with NVE Pharmaceuticals (Stacker 2) for $13,000,000.00.
- At the time the largest sponsorship deal in the history of dirt track racing. In 2005 sold Xtreme DirtCar Series to NASCAR Driver Ken Schrader owned company UMP.
- Shortly after the sale Xtreme / UMP merged with the World of Outlaws Late Model Series.
- Later that year Bland purchased Springfield Raceway with partner Jerry Hoffman.
- Bland ventured into the Mixed Martial industry with his XCF (Xtreme Cage Fighting) brand and went on to promote 14 Professional MMA events over the next 3 years. In 2010 started Bland Sports Inc.
- a sports marketing agency that represented athletes and sports properties to include Kyle Busch Motorsports, Liquid Nitro Energy Drink, Maxim Racewear, Digital Qpons and UFC Fighter Michael Johnson. Bland was named the managing partner of the Mesquite Arena in Mesquite TX in 2014 and 6 months later became owner of the Dallas Marshals of the Champions Indoor Football League (CIF) team which played their home games at the Mesquite Arena.
- Bland sold the Dallas Marshals in Aug of 2017 to Dallas businessman Bruce Badgett, the Dallas Marshals played the first 6 games of the 2017 season under Badgett ownership then folded. Bland returned to his home state of Illinois to revitalize the Quad Cities Steamwheelers Indoor Football franchise that had been dormant since 2009.
- The Team made the playoffs in 2018 with an 8-4 record and then went 7-7 in the 2019 season.
- The Steamwheelers are a member of the IFL (Indoor Football League).
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