Premium TV network EPIX® announced today that the EPIX Original Documentary Serena, an intimate portrait of 4-time Olympic Gold Medalist and International sports icon Serena Williams, will make its World Television Premiere on EPIX on June 22, 2016 at 8pm ET/PT, 7C. The feature-length documentary provides viewers with unprecedented access ...
Read More »Yahoo Sports Partners With NHL to Bring Fans Free, Live Out-of-Market Games & On-Demand Premium Content
Yahoo! Inc. and the National Hockey League this week announced a strategic alliance to deliver premium sports content to Yahoo Sports’ millions of users. Now fans can access live, out-of-market NHL games for free on Yahoo, throughout the week, no cable subscription or authentication required. Yahoo will offer unique advertising ...
Read More »MLB, Topps To Debut Wacky Packages
Growing up (it was, alas, the ’70s), I remember having just a few Wacky Packages mixed in among the piles of somewhat organized baseball cards. I remember a few of them stuck to the closet door as well – that didn’t go over quite as smoothly as I’d have hoped. ...
Read More »Your Brackets Just Got More Valuable
What price will college basketball fans pay to attend the Final Four? For some, not that much if a new platform that recently launched does what it is supposed to. The program is called Select Four, and it was created by the folks at Dallas based TickAssure!. The plan allows ...
Read More »Yogi Berra Museum To Host Fastball Screening March 22
The Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center in Little Falls, N.J., will host a special screening of the acclaimed documentary feature “Fastball,” on March 22 by award-winning director Jonathan Hock. The 90-minute film is a remarkable journey into the science of baseball’s signature pitch, featuring amazing footage and observations from ...
Read More »Tony Thompson Biofile Interview
http://gty. im/178139708 By Scoop Malinowski First memory of boxing: Watching Sugar Ray Leonard fight as a kid. Boxing inspirations: My family. Hobbies/interests: Golf, bowling, basketball, football, reading, Animal Planet. First job: Delivering newspapers, paperboy. Current car: 2008 Cadillac SRX. First famous boxer you met or encountered: Sugar Ray Leonard at ...
Read More »HITN Scores Programming Partnership to Add Weekly Sports to Its Lineup
Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network (HITN), the Pay TV network that offers educational content for U.S. Hispanic audiences, announced today its exclusive sports lineup will include two new shows, Gillette World Sports (GWS), and Football Review. Both shows will feature the latest in sports and world football (soccer) news. “With ...
Read More »TuneIn Partners with National Basketball Association to Broadcast Live Audio of NBA Games to Fans Worldwide
TuneIn, the world’s largest audio network, today announced a multiyear partnership with the National Basketball Association (NBA), which will include live play-by-play of NBA preseason, regular season and postseason games in the United States beginning with the 2016-17 season on TuneIn Premium. The partnership will provide TuneIn Premium users with ...
Read More »2016 Fast Forward Week 1 Notre Dame vs. Texas "Inside The Numbers"
Notre Dame vs. Texas Notes: Rematch of last year’s game in South Bend that Notre Dame won 38-3. The Fighting Irish lost three games by a total of 20 points (6.6 points per game) to opponents with a combined record of 38-4 or .904%. Texas lost six games in 2015 ...
Read More »2016 Fast Forward Week 1 FSU vs. Ole Miss "Inside The Numbers"
FSU vs. Ole Miss Notes: Florida State’s three losses came to opponents with a combined record of 30-11 or .731 (Georgia Tech, Clemson and Houston). Ole Miss had wins in 2015 by an average margin of victory of 27.9 points per game. However, two of the teams three losses came ...
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