SiriusXM will offer subscribers extensive coverage of The 146th Open from Royal Birkdale in Southport, England, featuring 48 total hours of live on-course play-by-play plus daily talk programming hosted by the 1989 Champion Golfer of the Year Mark Calcavecchia and other major champions. Live championship play-by-play, featuring IMG’s @TheOpen Radio broadcasts, will ...
Read More »Mylan World TeamTennis Partners With ESPN To Introduce First In-Match Player Microphones During Professional Tennis Competition
Mylan World TeamTennis is teaming up with ESPN to bring another innovation to the sport with the introduction of Quantum5X (Q5X) QT-5100 PlayerMics, on-player wireless microphones that capture on-court action. For the first time in professional tennis competition, players will wear wireless microphone transmitters in Mylan WTT matches this summer, ...
Read More »Glazer, LaForce, Stephen A. Smith Among Sports Media Depicted In New Topps Cards
Jay Glazer, Allie LaForce, Sage Steele, Paul Finebaum and Stephen A. Smith are among the media personalities included in the Topps Allen & Ginter trading card set, which hits shelves on July 19. Topps Allen & Ginter, a retro series of cards, features autographed cards of champions from the around ...
Read More »The Overwatch League™ Partners with Sports, Esports Leaders to Build Teams for Major Cities Worldwide
Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today announced the sale of the first Overwatch League™ teams for major global cities to seven entrepreneurs and leaders from traditional sports and esports. The Overwatch League is the first major global professional esports league with city-based teams. New team owners include: Robert Kraft, Chairman ...
Read More »Roberto Clemente Museum Launches National Campaign to Retire 21
The Roberto Clemente Museum, in partnership with Pittsburgh-based advertising agency MARC USA, has launched a national grassroots petition campaign to retire number 21 across Major League Baseball. Roberto Clemente wore 21 for his 18 seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates, from 1955 until his untimely death on New Year’s Eve 1972 ...
Read More »Deals, Deals, Deals! New Book Looks At The Best… And Worst Of Them
Baseball’s trading deadline is a few weeks away (and Amazon’s Prime Day is upon us!). Trade talk around the league has been ramping up, in what could culminate in a bonanza like July 2017 or — like many other years — a lot more speculation than actual swapping. Will teams ...
Read More »Nielsen and Tennis Channel Extend Agreement to Include National TV Ratings
Today, Nielsen (NYSE: NLSN) and Tennis Channel announced that they have expanded their relationship, beyond the Nielsen Local TV Ratings Service, to also include Nielsen’s National TV Ratings service. Tennis Channel is the only 24-hour, television-based multimedia destination dedicated to both professional tennis and its lifestyle. This multi-year agreement provides Tennis ...
Read More »Game-used Aaron Judge Jersey From MLB debut on Steiner Auctions Block
New York Yankees rookie sensation Aaron Judge blasted a home run in his first Major League at-bat last August 13th, and that game-used jersey worn by the All-Star outfielder spearheads a multitude of baseball memorabilia on the auction block in the Steiner Auctions “2017 Mid-Summer Classic” auction. The on-line auction ...
Read More »eBay For Charity And ESPN Announce Annual ESPY Day Auction To Support The V Foundation
Today, eBay for Charity and ESPN announced the launch of the annual ESPY Day Auction. In connection with the 25th annual ESPY Awards on July 12, the charity auction gives shoppers the opportunity to bid on once-in-a-lifetime experiences at some of the world’s most famous sporting events, including Wimbledon and the Super Bowl. ...
Read More »MLB Network heads to Miami for all-access coverage of 2017 All-Star week
The 2017 MLB All-Star Game presented by Mastercard at Miami’s Marlins Park is less than two weeks from today, and MLB Network has every angle covered, with the most comprehensive programming leading up to and throughout All-Star Week. Following the announcement of the 2017 All-Stars on Sunday, July 2, MLB ...
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