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One of the top shortstops in Major League Baseball is joining the Topps Authentics℠ roster in an exclusive multi-year deal. Francisco Lindor is the latest rising star to sign with Topps Authentics. Topps will offer signed memorabilia of jerseys, balls, bats, and oversized Chrome® Rookie Cards on Topps.com. I’m excited ...

Ted Leonsis has always been known to zig while the establishment in sports, entertainment and film zags. So while it may have come as a little bit of a surprise today when his company, Monumental Sports and Entertainment, announced its new sales partnership team, it probably didn’t surprise those in ...

This will be worth locating Smithsonian Channel on your pay TV lineup, if somehow you haven’t already… “The Hammer of Hank Aaron” is the first in Smithsonian’s “Major League Legends” series, debuting this week. The documentary focuses on Aaron’s sometimes overlooked role in the early post-integration days of Major League ...

Beginning tomorrow, MLB Network will feature live Spring Training baseball for 34 straight days and comprehensive coverage of every MLB camp with the return of 30 Clubs in 30 Days. MLB Network’s Spring Training game schedule features more than 200 games, beginning with the defending AL East champion Toronto Blue ...

The Basketball Tournament (TBT) presented by Jack Link’s® Protein Snacks today announced that they have doubled the winner-take-all prize money to $2 Million for 2016, with the winning team’s fans sharing 10 percent of the prize: $200,000. The open-to-all, single-elimination, summer basketball event will be open to applicants starting April ...

What do a tennis Grand Slam champion, an Olympic gold medalist, a boxing champion and a national champion football coach have in common? They are all going to be in 2016 Topps® Allen & Ginter® Baseball. Allen & Ginter trading cards feature an eclectic mix of subjects ranging from hand-painted ...

Young people in five cities will be able to shoot hoops on newly renovated basketball courts through a new national collaboration focused on improving the quality, safety and accessibility of courts in low-to-moderate-income neighborhoods. The Home Court Program, a pilot launched by ESPN and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), ...

NESN.com, one of the top 15 sports websites in the U.S.*, recently launched NESN Fuel, a new digital property focusing on automotive content. NESN Fuel will serve as the car enthusiast’s home for everything automotive, featuring both written and video content on an array of topics including: Consumer Car Information ...

MP & Silva, the international media company leading the creation of the Americas Champions League (ACL), is proud to announce that Sen. George Mitchell was appointed as member of the league’s Advisory Board, alongside Paul Tagliabue, former NFL commissioner. Americas Champions League (ACL) is a new annual football/soccer club competition ...

Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) and PGA TOUR this week announced a strategic relationship to deliver free, live, and on-demand video content from the PGA TOUR to fans around the world, no cable subscription or authentication required. Teeing off today with the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, now on Yahoo, viewers around ...