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  • PBR Is SlamBall’s New Official Exclusive Beer Partner Highlighted By Dunk Contest

    The New Partnership Presents Summer Series Dunk Contest and Special Year-round Consumer Activations for Fans Pabst Blue Ribbon is aligning with SlamBall for the worldwide 2024 and 2025 seasons making PBR “The Official Exclusive Beer Partner” and title sponsor of the Summer Series Dunk Contest. SlamBall brings plenty of business momentum into this budding relationship,…

  • MGM Grand Garden Arena Hosts Legends of Basketball Las Vegas Invitational Dec 2

    Top 25 Showdown Headlines Legends of Basketball Las Vegas Invitational A west coast college basketball showdown between preseason top-25 programs Gonzaga and USC headlines the Legends of Basketball Las Vegas Invitational. The games on Dec. 2 hosted at the MGM Grand Garden Arena showcases Washington and Colorado State to begin the Saturday night doubleheader at…

  • SlamBall Relaunches To Record Broadcast And Social Metrics Generated By Younger Fanbase

    Numbers exceeded expectations in every area from social to broadcast, attendance to media engagement; in many cases outdistancing every professional sports property in the same time period SlamBall, the fast-paced, gravity-defying sport that combines elements of basketball, football, hockey and acrobatics co-founded by Mike Tollin and Mason Gordon, today unveiled its comprehensive look at data…

  • SlamBall Relaunch On ESPN Starts With Opening Night In Las Vegas July 21

    SlamBall, ESPN Announce Exclusive Two-Year Broadcast Partnership for the 2023 and 2024 Seasons  SlamBall Opening Night is showing on ESPN this summer. The new and exclusive two-year national broadcaster for the 2023 and 2023 seasons relaunches the hybrid basketball, football, hockey and trampolines sport live from Las Vegas. The first July 21 games broadcast from…

  • NBRPA Legends Summer Getaway Features Tech Summit And Amazon Career Day

    Las Vegas is hosting a new National Basketball Retired Players Association (NBRPA) event, the Legends Summer Getaway, from July 7-9. The annual gathering promises more than 100 NBA, WNBA and ABA Legends all in Nevada this week to network, learn about sports technology and emerging business opportunities, and perhaps to take new work paths or…

  • The Shutdown of Business in Las Vegas Because of COVID-19 Opens Door to Online Casino Games

    The game must go on and in this case it will in the form of online casino games. Coronavirus first shut down casinos in Las Vegas owned by Wynn-Encore, MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment before the Nevada governor closed all casinos and businesses in an unprecedented response to nationwide and worldwide responses to the…

  • Is The Las Vegas Raiders Allegiant Stadium A Home Field Advantage?

    Allegiant Stadium is the new name for the Las Vegas Raiders $1.9 billion state-of-the-art facility set to open in 2020 of which $750 million comes from public funding. Money the city of Oakland simply could not fork over in order to keep the NFL franchise in California making it a windfall for team owner team,…

  • Heisman Trophy Awarded To Notre Dame WR Tim Brown Available Via Goldin Auctions

    TIM BROWN’S HEISMAN TROPHY HEADLINES GOLDIN AUCTIONS 2018 HOLIDAY AUCTION The nostalgic Heisman Trophy won by Tim Brown in 1987, star wide receiver out of Notre Dame, will be auctioned online by Goldin Auctions and can be yours if the price is right. Will any reader or follower of THE Sports Techie community blog step…

  • Sports Betting Across America

    This is the year American sports betting became legal outside of the stranglehold Las Vegas had for decades. In May, 2018 the Supreme Court ruled the Federal law in place banning this type of action unconstitutional allowing each state the right to make the decision whether to offer legalized sport bets. The unfair monopoly that…

  • NGU Sports Lighting Launches With Proven LED Sports Lighting Solutions And Team

    NGU Sports Lighting, LLC, Enters Lighting Market as Exclusive Provider of Ephesus Sports Lighting Solutions For Professional Venues NGU Sports Lighting is taking LED technology, solutions and products to the next level for professional and semi-pro end users all the way down the massive youth market in order to meet the growing consumer demand for…