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Rakuten, Inc., a global leader in internet services, today announced the launch of Rakuten Sports. This new live streaming and video on demand (VOD) sports entertainment platform provided by Rakuten will deliver sports content to a global audience. Rakuten Sports provides viewers with Meiji Yasuda J1 League matches from the ...

First-year results from collegiate athletics partners who adopted From Now On’s FANX™ Rewards mobile loyalty program show an average 64% increase in monthly active users year-over-year. In addition, schools that activated FANX™ Rewards saw their total app session activity increase by 82% on average. These statistics come from user engagement ...

SiriusXM will be the exclusive national radio broadcaster for the 119th U.S. Open Championship, offering listeners nationwide extensive coverage from Pebble Beach Golf Links in California. SiriusXM’s programming will feature 44 hours of live hole-by-hole coverage – more than ever before – across all four rounds of play – June 13th through the 16th – ...

Super Bowl Champion and two-time Emmy-Award winner Michael Strahan (Good Morning America, Strahan and Sara, The $100,000 Pyramid, Fox NFL Sunday) is set to host Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Sports 2019, an event bursting with epic slimings and sheer sports ‘fan’-demonium. Voting begins today for the only show celebrating kids’ love ...

Golden Boy, DAZN and MSG Networks today announced that Thursday Night Fights, the new monthly boxing series from Golden Boy and DAZN, will now be televised on MSG Networks, bringing live boxing to viewers throughout the New York-metro area. The Thursday Night Fights series consists of a three-hour program, featuring a two-hour block of ...

Combate Americas this week announced six new bouts for its first-ever featherweight (145 pounds) world championship event that will headline the Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) sports franchise’s debut in the state of New Mexico, live on television in Spanish in the U.S. on both Univision (12 a.m. ET/PT) and UDN ...

The 119th U.S. Open Championship – to be held at iconic Pebble Beach this year – will mark the debut of a special-edition branding and merchandising logo developed by the Hooray Agency (formerly known as HyperDisk Marketing). “Having been awarded the U.S. Open Championship logo design contract in January 2015, ...

Thuuz Sports, the most powerful automated video highlights production platform for worldwide sports, today announced their May Top 10 most exciting games, with the NBA taking most of the attention of fans around the country. Topping the list was the Portland Trailblazers four OT NBA Playoff win over the Denver ...

Today, Nesquik® officially announced the brand’s partnership with Seattle wide receiver DK Metcalf, who will star as the face of the Nesquik® #KeepOnChuggin campaign. As a player and a person, Metcalf perfectly embodies the message of the new campaign, which aims to serve up motivation in a bottle. As part ...

This weekend, the 2019 Penn Mutual Collegiate Rugby Championship returns to Talen Energy Stadium in suburban Philadelphia, and the competition will be carried live on ESPN2, ESPNEWS and ESPN+. The live television coverage schedule will be as follows: Saturday, June 1: 8 a.m. – 1 p.m. ET on ESPN+ 1 ...