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Fast-rising menswear brand Swet Tailor, the creators of EveryDay. EveryWear,™ announced today the closing of a first round of seed funding of $1.5M designed to further expand the company’s marketing and brand awareness. The round included several influential fashion, sports and media investors, including Burch Creative Capital, veteran NFL Quarterback ...
Read More »Tiger Woods, Discovery’s GOLFTV Announce Content Partnership
In a major development as part of the strategic partnership between Discovery, Inc. and the PGA TOUR, GOLFTV today announced an exclusive multi-year global content partnership with 80-time PGA TOUR winner and 14-time Major champion Tiger Woods. Starting in January 2019, GOLFTV powered by PGA TOUR, the new global live and ...
Read More »NBA Announces First Betting Data Partnerships In The U.S. With Sportradar And Genius Sports
The National Basketball Association (NBA) today announced its first betting data partnerships in the U.S. Beginning this NBA season, Sportradar and Genius Sports will have the non-exclusive rights to distribute official NBA betting data to licensed sports betting operators in the U.S. As more states legalize sports betting, Genius Sports ...
Read More »Deep Reporting Marks Belichick Biography
With five Super Bowl titles, 17 straight winning seasons — and counting — and more than 40 years on NFL sidelines, Bill Belichick is considered by many to be the greatest coach in pro football history. From the historic highs of the five championships to the lows of his time ...
Read More »ESPN’s 30th Season of MLB Coverage Starts With 14 Season-Opening Games in 2019
ESPN will open its 30th season of Major League Baseball coverage with 14 season-opening games, beginning with an Opening Day tripleheader on Thursday, March 28, 2019. At 1 p.m. ET, the New York Yankees and Aaron Judge will host the Baltimore Orioles and Trey Mancini. At 4 p.m., the National League Champion ...
Read More »CBSN To Broadcast College Wrestling’s ‘Battle On The Midway” Sunday
CBS Sports Network, in conjunction with DragonFli Media Technologies and Left Coast Wrestling, will televise the collegiate wrestling showcase, “Battle on the Midway,” to a national-television audience in prime-time this Sunday, Nov. 25 at 8 p.m. PT (11 p.m. ET) and on re-air Friday, Nov. 30 at 8 p.m. PT ...
Read More »EA SPORTS™ NHL® 19 Honors the Great One with Limited ‘99 Edition’
Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) pays homage to Wayne Gretzky with the announce and launch of the EA SPORTS™ NHL® 19 ‘99 Edition’, available worldwide today for a limited time as a digital download on the PlayStation®4 and Xbox One. The 99 Edition features new cover art of The Great One himself and added benefits in ...
Read More »The Historical Basketball League Hires NBA Champion David West
The Historical Basketball League (HBL) is the first college basketball league to compensate and educate its players based on their market value. Today, the HBL (@hb_league) took a major step towards its 2020 launch by announcing the hiring of two-time NBA champion David West as the league’s first COO. West will oversee the ...
Read More »The first, definitive biography of La Salle basketball icon, Tom Gola
Tom Gola is a Philadelphia Big Five basketball icon who led La Salle College to the National Invitation Tournament championship in 1952 and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championship in 1954 and holds the NCAA record for most rebounds in a career. He helped the Philadelphia Warriors win the ...
Read More »MIT Sloan Debuts Hoops Analytics Podcast ‘Counterpoints’
Counterpoints, a new sports analytics podcast, launched this week, with sports analytics consultant, author, and speaker Ben Alamar proposing that basketball IQ, separate from measures of athleticism or past performance, is a predictor of a player’s success in professional basketball. Co-hosted by Ben Shields, who teaches sports analytics at the MIT Sloan School of ...
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