Category: Blog
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Kerri Walsh Jennings Partners With Franklin Sports To Launch Volleyball Signature Line
Kerri Walsh Jennings, the three-time summer Olympic Games beach volleyball gold medal winner and legend announced her new partnership with Franklin Sports yesterday. The trusted global sporting goods brand aims to gain valuable exposure regarding this business collaboration as the Tokyo 2020 Games officially begins on Friday, July 23, 2021, the first time in the…
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Five NBRPA Legends Scholars Granted HBCU $10K Academic Scholarship Awards
Five Legends HBCU (Historically Black College or University) Scholarship recipients were granted by the National Basketball Retired Players Association (NBRPA) for the 2021-2022 school year. This first undergraduate class of Legends Scholars each earned themselves a $10,000 academic scholarship. The Sports Techie community blog virtually applauds these motivated college students as they pursue the dream…
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Franklin Sports Driving Pickleball Growth With USA Pickleball Aiming For Olympics
Franklin Sports has been around for 75-years and pickleball has been played since it’s invention in 1965 near where I grew up in Seattle. The diverse global sporting goods retailer and manufacturer along with USA Pickleball, the sport’s national governing body, entered into a contractual partnership focused on business steps to prop up one of the fastest…
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Legends Lounge With Trill Withers Podcast By LME Launches During NBA Finals
Legends Lounge with Trill Withers podcast by Legends Media & Entertainment (LME) launched today featuring former NBA greats, Vernon Maxwell, Rex Chapman and Detlef Schrempf, players I used to watch hoop when they were in their respective playing prime. The NBA Finals continues tonight with the Milwaukee Bucks at the Phoenix Suns in game two…
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Lou Gehrig Speech NFT Relaunches New York Sports Hall Of Fame
New York Sports Hall of Fame relaunched today with the exclusive Lou Gehring Appreciation Day speech offering of a 1-of-1 non-fungible token (NFT) digital collector’s item. The year 1939 saw World War II beginning to rage, my mother being born In Ecuador, and perhaps the most iconic sports speech ever given by the Yankees Captain…
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VKTRY GEAR Insoles Adds NBA Legend Tracy McGrady As Basketball Ambassador
VKTRY GEAR performance insoles has pivoted from dominating football to looking to do the same in basketball by signing Tracy McGrady as a brand ambassador in addition to his membership acceptance to the company advisory board comprised of fellow influential athletes. The sports tech company is expanding into hoops and will rely on the Basketball…
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Space Jam: A New Legacy Soundtrack Release
Space Jam: A New Legacy, is launching it’s highly anticipated soundtrack early next month to the delight of theater movie goers, online streamers and music fans, alike. The Jam 2 features a variety of urban musical artists such as Portland State University’s finest, Aminé, a rapper, singer, and songwriter hailing from Oregon. The funky beats…
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Hexoskin Outfitting Kellie Gerardi On Virgin Galactic Spaceflight With Astroskin Bio-Monitor Wearable For IIAS Tests
Hexoskin’s vital signs monitoring wearable, Astroskin, is outfitting researcher Kellie Gerardi for the products first private flight space mission aboard a dedicated Virgin Galactic research flight where she can test the International Institute of Astronautical Sciences (IIAS) spaceflight system. Kellie is scheduled to perform space experiments while testing new healthcare technologies in space, including the…
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Franklin Sports Sponsors Professional Pickleball Association (PPA) Franklin Cup Player Rankings
Franklin Sports is helping take pickleball mainstream by their extended Professional Pickleball Association (PPA) partnership becoming more than the Official Ball Partner of the recent 2021 U.S. Open Pickleball Championships held in Naples, Florida over eight days. The Sports Techie community blog chatted with Adam Franklin, the third generation President of the 75-year sporting goods…