opendorse, the leading athlete marketing platform, today announced the launch of a new solution allowing college athletics programs to help student-athletes build their brands by sharing content on social. With opendorse, collegiate athletes can share content from their school to their personal social channels with the tap of a button. ...
Read More »Maven to Launch Sports Network in Partnership with The Sports Xchange
Maven is adding team-sports “franchises” to its wide-ranging coalition of elite independent publishers (“mavens”) by re-launching a business model their founders invented over 20 years ago at Rivals.com. Maven is partnering with The Sports Xchange (TSX) to deploy a nationwide, professional network of sports journalists who will provide authentic, on-the-ground ...
Read More »Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Partners with Blue Frame Technology to Create the New CACC Network
The Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) on Tuesday announced the league office and all 14 member schools have partnered with Blue Frame Technology to create the all-new CACC Network, as announced by Commissioner Dan Mara. The partnership will enable all 14 schools to webstream their game broadcasts to one platform provided ...
Read More »Biofile: Al Bernstein Interview
By Scoop Malinowski Status: SHOWTIME Boxing Analyst since 2003. ESPN Boxing Analyst from 1980-2003. NBC Olympic Boxing Analyst in 1992 and 1996. Author of 1978 book Boxing For Beginners. DOB: September 15, 1950 In: Chicago, IL First Boxing Memory: “Was watching Sugar Ray Robinson and Wayne ‘Thunder’ Thornton and all ...
Read More »Analyzing Joshua vs Wilder
By Scoop Malinowski They may not be the two best heavyweights in the world today but they are the two most decorated, and famous. Anthony Joshua holds most of the title belts and is world renowned for his sensational, spectacular KO win over longstanding kingpin Wladimir Klitschko in front ...
Read More »1988 Scoop: Duran Threw The Rematch To Leonard
By Scoop Malinowski One of the first big boxing shows I ever attended was the February 5, 1988 Atlantic City tripleheader of Marlon Starling defending his WBA Welterweight title vs Fujio Ozaki, Mark Breland vs Juan Alonso Villa and a ten rounder featuring Roberto Duran vs Ricky Stackhouse. As ...
Read More »‘The Sandlot’ Returns to U.S. Cinemas for 25th Anniversary July 22 and 24
Play ball! The legendary baseball comedy “The Sandlot” is back in movie theaters across the country for two days only this July – its first national theatrical run since its original release 25 years ago. The film will play with an exclusive sneak preview of an all-new Fox Sports documentary ...
Read More »‘If Ifs and Buts…’ New Book Looks At Great Sports What-Ifs
“Deep to Left… Yastrzemski will not get it… it’s foul by a few feet. Bucky Dent just missed giving the Yankees the lead.” Had Bill White‘s memorable call of Bucky Dent‘s iconic 1978 A.L. East playoff at-bat gone something like the above, followed by Dent making the out that his ...
Read More »Team Wilder Did Not Foresee Joshua’s Rise To Power
By Scoop Malinowski The biggest fight in boxing is on the verge of being signed, if Deontay Wilder agrees to the contract he has in his hands from Heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and his promoter Eddie Hearn but there are signs that one side is pretending to want to participate. ...
Read More »Olympians Felix, Moses, Carlos To Speak At Inaugural Laureus Summit July 18
Laureus USA today announced the first annual Laureus Summit presented by ESPN to be held on July 18 at LA Live in Los Angeles and feature speakers including Olympic legend and Laureus USA Board Chairman , South African Rugby Player and Laureus Ambassador Bryan Habana, among others. The summit falls on the 100th birthday of Laureus founding patron Nelson ...
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