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Fantasy sports may be all the rage on earth, but what if the result of a single baseball game, whose teams are comprised of players selected by God and the Devil themselves, from among anyone ever to play in the Majors or Negro Leagues, would determine the fate of the ...

The Paley Center for Media has selected The Paley Center Celebrates 100 Years of the NHL as its next PaleyLive event. The program will feature the New York premiere screening of The NHL: 100 Years, a conversation with the NHL Commissioner, former players, and audience Q&A, and will take place on ...

MVPindex, the de facto social media index and valuation platform for sports and entertainment, today announced a new esports social media index. MVPindex will track, measure and value the social media impact of nearly 2,500 esports leagues, tournaments, teams, players, and games across leading social platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram ...

One of the questions that always arises when sports betting comes up in the U.S. is can the games be compromised? Even though the Black Sox scandal was almost 100 years ago and game fixing stories are few and far between, the protection of data in a hack induced world ...

Whenever Harvey Schiller puts his name to something the sports and media world takes notice. Now Schiller, former chair of the USOC, commissioner of the SEC, president of International Baseball, creator of networks like YES and Turner, has literally found a cutting edge company that will have his name, in ...

NBC Olympics will again utilize fully-distributed NBCUniversal cable channels NBCSN, CNBC, and USA Network to televise more than 450 hours of coverage of the XXIII Olympic Winter Games this February from PyeongChang, South Korea. NBCSN will serve as the cable home of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, televising 368.5 hours of coverage, including 10 days of ...

We keep hearing more and more about how niche sports are engaging better than traditional team sports in the digital space. lacrosse has grown its audience and now it looks like rugby is as well. United World Sports, the owner and operator of the largest annual rugby events in the ...

DraftKings, Inc. announced today it is testing the waters in the streaming of live sports through an expanded partnership with EuroLeague Basketball. Customers will be able to stream select Turkish Airlines EuroLeague basketball games directly through their DraftKings mobile app and seamlessly toggle between fantasy contests and live content. This ...

Nearly two decades of experience in sports broadcasting means Jen has been talking about balls (and other sports equipment) with well-known athletes the rest of us only dream of having a few moments with. The new book is already flooded with praise from the likes of NFL sideline reporters Erin Andrews, Pam ...

This season’s Topps® MLB All-Star Rookie Team features one of the strongest classes in its 58-year history with record breakers, rising stars and potential award winners. Eleven MLB players were named to the Topps All-Star Rookie Team led by New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge and Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder ...