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Responding to the growing need for the nation’s high schools to have access to a comprehensive marketing and communications solution, VNN Sports today announced it has named former SportsEngine executive, Rick Ehrman, as CEO. With roughly 20,000 public high schools across the U.S., and eight (8) million students participating in ...

The Professional Fighters League (PFL), the first to present MMA in the sport-season format where individual fighters compete in a Regular Season, Playoffs, and Championship, has announced a strategic partnership with Mike Tyson. The first initiative under the strategic partnership is a new MMA series — “Mike Tyson’s New Fight ...

Winning Streak Sports, the industry leader in the sales and marketing of the vintage, retro-trend, dynasty style banners, pennants and related fandom, today announced a first-ever partnership with Texas A&M University to create, sell and distribute the 125th anniversary Texas A&M heritage banner exclusively on the Aggies platform. “We are ...

The University of New Haven announced today that it is establishing a comprehensive academic curriculum in esports management that will be the first of its kind to be part of a business curriculum accredited by AACSB International, an accreditation that places the University’s College of Business among the top five ...

Social sports publisher WAVE today announced the addition of senior staff members to its team. WAVE, which claims 163M monthly engagements and 2.3b monthly views on its content, added former Bleacher Report exec Josh Abrams, Senior Vice President, and former HelloSociety SVP Rebecca Hawkins, Vice President. Abrams has nearly 20 ...

The sports network Overtime this week announced a new slate of football-focused premium video series premiering this fall, including “Primetime 2.0”, a reality series starring NFL Hall of Famer Deion “PrimeTime” Sanders and his star quarterback son, Shedeur Sanders. This slate of five new series –showcasing many of the sport’s ...

Dawn Dawson, broadcast journalist and sports announcer, heads to Qingdao, China to commentate for the international UIM-ABP Aquabike World Championship. The UIM-ABP Grand Prix of Qingdao, China will be supported by the Haier Group, one of the most well-known brands in China, which is headquartered in Qingdao. The race marks one of ...

This Thanksgiving, the NFL is giving one lucky fan and eleven of their family members and friends the opportunity to play the Turkey Bowl game of their dreams in one of the most iconic stadiums – Lambeau Field. The venue was home to some of the NFL’s greatest moments of ...

NTT, a global technology and business solutions leader, and Major League Baseball last week successfully conducted a Proof of Concept (PoC) with NTT’s Ultra Reality Viewing technology (URV) as part of their recently announced multi-year technology agreement making the Japan-based company an official MLB partner in the United States. This implementation ...

The collegiate wrestling world will set its eyes on San Diego on Friday, Nov. 1 when two of college wrestling’s premier kickoff events take place in America’s Finest City featuring the University of Wisconsin, Army West Point, Navy and Fresno State. In the morning, the four schools will compete inside ...