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Charles Barkley-Animation The National Basketball Retired Players Association (NBRPA), in celebration of its 30th anniversary, is teaming up with sports marketing collective HEARTLENT Group to re-fresh the organization’s visual identity. As part of the partnership, the creative team at HEARTLENT Group, led by managing partner and head of creative Elliot Gerard, is creating new enhancements for ...

Mike Krzyzewski, who is entering his final season in a Hall of Fame career as head coach of the Duke University Blue Devils, will host the premiere episode of the 17th season of his weekly SiriusXM show, Basketball and Beyond with Coach K, tomorrow, October 21 (6:00 pm ET). Basketball ...

Iconic, award-winning pop culture artist John Costacos, who established a genre of sports art with his famed sports personality poster creations, along with co-founder and CEO Justin Moorad and Digital Art Director Mike Campau, today unveiled a new blockchain-based digital collectibles company, the Costacos Collection. The Costacos Collection is partnering ...

The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and RealResponse announced today that USADA’s Play Clean Tip Center will now provide athletes and support personnel with a real-time texting option to report potential abuse of performance-enhancing drugs and suspected doping behavior. USADA serves Olympic, Paralympic, and UFC athletes and is the first ...

FlexIt, known for its personalized fitness offerings such as its premium training platform, FlexItPRO™, announces a focus on improving its athletic performance offering. This initiative is being headed by Drew Hanlen, one of the most sought after personal trainers in the NBA, who has worked with Joel Embiid, Bradley Beal, ...

TeamWorks Media, the parent company of La Vida Baseball, today announced the launch of La Vida Sports, a newly created business to connect brands, media companies and content creators with the LatinX community, the largest growing and most underserved demographic in the U.S. La Vida Sports is a natural progression ...

A new world auction record for a signed sports photograph was established for an exceedingly scarce and important 1911 “Shoeless” Joe Jackson Autographed Photograph by Frank W. Smith (PSA/DNA 9 MT)(Unique Surviving Example) which sold for $1,470,000, far exceeding the estimate of $200,000-400,000. The signed photo was offered by Christie’s ...

Sports Gambling Podcast Network (SGPN) has leveraged its combination of college/pro football prognostication success and entertaining user experience to deliver its strongest consumer activation month – 495,000 unique downloads — since the inception of the platform 10 years ago. According to the podcast analytics website Megaphone, SGPN also had 69, 483 active listeners in the month of ...

The Electronic Gaming Federation, the national governing body for formalized collegiate D-I esports and high school level leagues, today announced their most comprehensive lineup for both games and participating schools in the organizations three year history. The season three of EGF will have participation from over 100 teams representing 60 ...

MSG-Knicks (Jean-Baptiste Bellet) MSG Networks, the television home of the New York Knicks, today announced the team’s telecast schedule for the upcoming season, which will include a total of 70 regular season games and all four preseason games. The team opens their preseason at home versus the Indiana Pacers on ...