by Jess Liptzin, special to SportsMedia Report For the first time, the Northern Trust PGA Tour golf tournament will be honoring firefighters from around the Jersey City, N.J., area at the event, set for August 16-22 at Liberty National Golf Club. On June 22, tournament officials and corporate sponsor Servpro ...
Read More »Forty Years Later, Cashman’s ‘Talkin’ Baseball’ Still Strikes Right Chord
The Whiz Kids had won it,Bobby Thomson had done it,And Yogi read the comics all the while. Those of us old enough to have lived through the 1981 baseball players’ strike (and, later the ‘94 lockout) remember how severely it damaged the fans’ connection with the sport, which may have ...
Read More »ShotTracker and IMPACT Launch Partnership to Expand Immersive NCAA Basketball Media Platform Engagement
DDSports Inc. (ShotTracker), a revolutionary sports technology that captures rich performance data via sensors and provides statistics and analytics with sub-second latency, today announced a new partnership with IMPACT to expand content creation around and visualization of, ShotTracker’s elite-level real time analytics, which have been deployed to a growing number of ...
Read More »Partnership Designates OneTeam as the Exclusive Group Licensing Partner of Opendorse
Noviene Williams-Mills (Flickr/Pic by Mohan) OneTeam Partners (OneTeam) and Opendorse today announced a first-of-its-kind partnership that will deliver group licensing opportunities to athletes at scale. The partnership, which comes as college athletes are afforded the right to be compensated for their name, image, and likeness (NIL), designates OneTeam as the ...
Read More »Wimbledon 2021 Coverage on SiriusXM
Wikimedia/I Went To Wimbledon SiriusXM will offer subscribers comprehensive live coverage of The Championships, Wimbledon 2021 from the opening day of play on Monday, June 28, through the Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Singles Finals on Saturday, July 10, and Sunday, July 11. The broadcasts will air on SiriusXM courtesy of ESPN ...
Read More »Herff Jones And The American 7s Football League Announce Exclusive Partnership
Herff Jones, the achievement division of Varsity Brands, is proud to announce they have signed a two-year deal with the American 7s Football League (A7FL) as the exclusive provider of championship rings. Herff Jones will also provide trophies for the champions of the 2021 season, which kicked off on April ...
Read More »Live Fast Motorsports Concludes Brain Tumor Association Fundraiser
Live Fast Motorsports closes the fundraiser for the American Brain Tumor Association that had donators provide their name or a loved ones of whom they wanted on-board the No. 78 Ford Mustang at the doubleheader race weekend in Pocono. On behalf of team owners Matt Tifft and BJ McLeod, the ...
Read More »NY Sports Hall of Fame Relaunches with Historic Content from Comprehensive Digital Archives
The New York Sports Hall of Fame relaunched today with a slate of digital firsts, including bidding on a non-fungible token (NFT) of the speech regarded as the most famous in sports history. The historic 1-of-1 NFT of uncut extant film of the iconic 1939 “Luckiest Man” address by New ...
Read More »Gretzky, Johnson, Nash Among Co-Owners Of New NLL Las Vegas Franchise
Flickr/Ken Lane The National Lacrosse League (@NLL) today announced the city of Las Vegas has been awarded an expansion franchise and will become the NLL’s 15th team, beginning play in the Fall of 2022. The new franchise will be co-owned by Wayne Gretzky, Dustin Johnson, Steve Nash, and Joe Tsai. Mark Fine has been named the ...
Read More »Panther City Lacrosse To Select 13 Players In National Lacrosse League Expansion Draft On June 29th
As it prepares for its first action in December, Panther City Lacrosse Club (PCLC) will take the first major step in stocking its roster via the National Lacrosse League (NLL) Expansion Draft, to be held on Wednesday, June 29, beginning at 7pm ET from the Omni Fort Worth ballroom (1300 Houston St., ...
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