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What do a tennis Grand Slam champion, an Olympic gold medalist, a boxing champion and a national champion football coach have in common? They are all going to be in 2016 Topps® Allen & Ginter® Baseball. Allen & Ginter trading cards feature an eclectic mix of subjects ranging from hand-painted ...

Young people in five cities will be able to shoot hoops on newly renovated basketball courts through a new national collaboration focused on improving the quality, safety and accessibility of courts in low-to-moderate-income neighborhoods. The Home Court Program, a pilot launched by ESPN and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), ...

NESN.com, one of the top 15 sports websites in the U.S.*, recently launched NESN Fuel, a new digital property focusing on automotive content. NESN Fuel will serve as the car enthusiast’s home for everything automotive, featuring both written and video content on an array of topics including: Consumer Car Information ...

MP & Silva, the international media company leading the creation of the Americas Champions League (ACL), is proud to announce that Sen. George Mitchell was appointed as member of the league’s Advisory Board, alongside Paul Tagliabue, former NFL commissioner. Americas Champions League (ACL) is a new annual football/soccer club competition ...

Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) and PGA TOUR this week announced a strategic relationship to deliver free, live, and on-demand video content from the PGA TOUR to fans around the world, no cable subscription or authentication required. Teeing off today with the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, now on Yahoo, viewers around ...

Beginning Tuesday, McDonald’s will bring exclusive preview screenings of Focus Features’ RACE, the long-awaited movie about gold medal champion Jesse Owens, to five theaters across the country. In conjunction with local McDonald’s franchisees and community partners, the movie will receive exclusive screenings in Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York and ...

The Penn Mutual Collegiate Rugby Championship,  the largest annual collegiate Rugby Sevens event in the world, today announced that the field for the 2016 Women’s Collegiate Championship will expand to 16 teams for the first time ever, and that the women’s championship final will be televised live nationally on NBC ...

Is Penn Mutual becoming to rugby what Allstate is to college football? It appears so, as the Horsham, Pa.-based company today announced an extension of their landmark deal with the Collegiate Rugby Championships and The Varsity Cup for an unspecified number of years, along with an added investment to promote ...

Were the ratings for Super Bowl 50 up or down? Depends on who you ask… CBS says: CBS Sports’ Coverage Of Super Bowl 50 Is Most-Watched Program In Television History As 167.0 Million Viewers Watch All Or Part Of Game The CBS Television Network’s coverage of Super Bowl 50 featuring ...

The Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP), the premiere domestic professional beach volleyball tour in the U.S., today officially announced its 2016 schedule, which includes eight events in seven states, including the final FIVB Olympic Qualifying event in the U.S. before Rio, in Cincinnati. Tournaments will be held from April through ...