The NFL Players Association (NFLPA), via its licensing and marketing arm, NFL Players Inc., and opendorse, the leading athlete marketing platform that helps the biggest brands in sports share content on social, today announced the renewal of their five-year partnership. The agreement will extend opendorse as the social media activation partner ...
Read More »NFL, Verizon Partner For Mobile Access To NFL Games
The National Football League and Verizon announced today a multi-year partnership in which Verizon’s portfolio of premium digital and mobile media properties, including Yahoo Sports, will stream in-market and national games, including national pre-season, regular season, playoff games, and the Super Bowl nationwide to sports fans – regardless of mobile ...
Read More »Female Football Champion Creates Card Game
Adrienne Smith is a modern day renaissance woman. The wide receiver for the Boston Renegades is a serial entrepreneur, educator, scholar, actor and creator of Blitz Champz, a football-themed card game for ages 7 and up. Blitz Champz is designed to test players’ football knowledge, critical thinking and math skills. The ...
Read More »Phil Simms Joins SiriusXM’s Mad Dog Channel as NFL Analyst
SiriusXM today announced that 15-year NFL quarterback and veteran broadcaster Phil Simms, who won the Super Bowl XXI MVP award with the New York Giants, will be an NFL analyst on SiriusXM’s Mad Dog Sports Radio channel throughout the 2017 season. Simms will join host Christopher “Mad Dog” Russo each week ...
Read More »Rising Company Uses Shoulder Pads As Its Storytelling Canvas…
If you are a football fan, you may not know Troy Cole by name, but you know his work, especially on the feet of some of the game’s greatest stars. Cole, also known as “Kickasso” rose to fame by designing many of the cause related cleats for NFL players big ...
Read More »Experience the 2017 NFL Draft Live on SiriusXM
SiriusXM will provide listeners nationwide with comprehensive coverage of the 2017 NFL Draft, with live coverage of every selection from every round, as well as four days of special programming, live from Philadelphia. From the first round on Thursday, April 27, through the final round on Saturday, April 29, SiriusXM ...
Read More »Business Of ‘The Draft’ Bigger Than Ever
If it seems like everyone does a mock draft (or two, or six), well, it’s probably because everyone does. I recall being a 13- or 14-year old in the early ’80s, staying home to watch the Draft on ESPN (it was a day event until recently), to see who the ...
Read More »L.A. Rams Subject of Season 2 Of Amazon’s ‘All or Nothing’
Amazon has announced it has greenlit season two of the Emmy-nominated All or Nothing, an Amazon Original Series produced by NFL Films. This season of All or Nothing will give Amazon Prime members access to an NFL season unlike any that’s been captured on screen. Customers will get to see ...
Read More »120 Sports And MVPindex Present Most Valued Athletes On Social Media Of 2016
The Seattle Seahawks Russell Wilson (No. 1), New York Giants Odell Beckham Jr. (No. 2) and the Houston Texans JJ Watt (No.3) were officially named the Top 3 Most Valued Athletes in Social Media of 2016 in a ranking created in partnership between MVPindex™ and 120 Sports. The ranking includes ...
Read More »Fitch: Long-Term TV Deals Strengthen U.S. Sports 2017 Outlook
Declines in TV viewership early in the NFL season have turned out to be little more than an election-related blip and will not adversely affect the stable outlook in place for U.S. sports finance next year, according to Fitch Ratings in its 2017 outlook for U.S. sports. The primary reason ...
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