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Baseball Season Begins with the Release of 2017 Topps® Baseball Series 1

Baseball season is back, and it begins with the launch of 2017 Topps® Baseball Series 1. Every year since 1952, The Topps Company, the exclusive trading card partner of Major League Baseball, has released its annual baseball card set that includes fan favorites, superstars, up-and-coming rookies and the recent addition ...

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Nickelodeon Gets In The Game To Give Kids All Access To Super Bowl LI

Nickelodeon and the National Football League (NFL) are bringing kids into the huddle with brand-new content and exclusive coverage of the events leading up to Super Bowl LI in Houston, Texas, beginning Wednesday, Feb. 1. Nickelodeon’s on- and off-channel events include Superstar Slime Showdown at Super Bowl, a one-hour original ...

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Foley’s NY Pub & Restaurant Announces ‘Battle of the Irish QBurgers’

Foley’s NY Pub & Restaurant (18 W. 33rd St.), has unveiled its “Battle of the Irish QBurgers” menu to coincide with the big game on Sunday, Feb. 5, featuring a quarterback-themed burger in honor of the Patriots’ Tom Brady and the Falcons’ Matt Ryan. “We always like to put a ...

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Hall Of Fame Coach And Basketball Institution To Be Chronicled In Showtime Sports® Six-Part Digital Documentary “Legacy: Bob Hurley”

The potential final season for a Hall of Fame coach and a national basketball institution will be chronicled in a SHOWTIME Sports digital documentary titled Legacy: Bob Hurley. SHOWTIME will debut Legacy: Bob Hurley in six weekly installments exclusively on SHO.com and the SHOWTIME Sports YouTube channel (@shosports) beginning Monday, ...

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Baseball Fans Vote Kris Bryant to Card No. 1 for 2017 Topps Baseball

Baseball fans have voted for the next player to be on Card No. 1 for 2017 Topps® Baseball. Chicago Cubs World Series Champion and National League Most Valuable Player Kris Bryant will grace Card No. 1. “It’s a huge honor with Card No. 1 depicting legends before me,” Bryant said. ...

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WWE® Superstar John Cena® To Host Nickelodeon’s 2017 Kids’ Choice Awards, Live On Saturday, March 11, 2017

WWE Superstar, actor and television host John Cena is set to host Nickelodeon’s 2017 Kids’ Choice Awards, airing live on Saturday, March 11, 2017, from 8-9:30 p.m. (ET/PT). The only live event where kids’ votes count and the biggest stars of the day line up to get slimed, Nickelodeon’s 2017 ...

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Players Tribune Makes Noise With Audio Venture

For the most part in its brief but successful history, The Players Tribune has been all about still photos and print, with athletes telling their story in their own voice. In recent months the platform has made announcements looking to expand into more video and branded content and this week ...

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Boxing Still Finding TV Homes With New ESPN Deal

Boxing has taken its share of hits in the past couple of decades, falling in the public eye among all sports and in particular behind mixed martial arts, whose fortunes have risen, seemingly in inverse proportion to those of the “sweet science.” But all is not lost for the sport ...

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SiriusXM to Provide More Than 34 Hours of Programming from 2017 PGA Merchandise Show

SiriusXM today announced its comprehensive programming lineup for listeners nationwide for the 64th PGA Merchandise Show, the golf industry’s premier annual event, (January 24-27) in Orlando, Florida. SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio, SiriusXM’s exclusive 24/7 golf channel, will air more than 34 hours of coverage from the PGA Show Demo Day ...

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Lawyers, Search Firms and Schools Get In; eSports Continues To Grow As A Property

There are certain points in time where even the most jaded veterans in the multi-billion dollar sports industry will admit that a new property has joined the mainstream. The UFC probably came with their first major sponsor deal, like Budweiser, the X Games and the Dew Tour came with television ...

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