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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…
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Big East Conference Esports Joins Electronic Gaming Federation’s EGFC Season 2
The BIG EAST Conference formalized their Division I eSports league standing by joining the Electronic Gaming Federation (EGF) and competing for a National Championship with 39 total DI varsity programs. The 11-member schools are scheduled to play a three-year, multigame season for the first time ever with membership in the official EGF Collegiate (EGFC) league.…
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COVID-19 Can’t Stop Famer Virtual Launch Of NBPA Training Ground Presented By Spalding
Famer and the National Basketball Players Association launched the new NBPA Training Ground channel presented by Spalding for all skills levels to “Train with Us” on the app at a time when COVID-19 has shut down youth sports nationwide. Coronavirus can’t stop this NBPA virtual learning experience hosted on Famer’s sports coaching and mentorship mobile…
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Virtual NFL Draft 2020 Mostly Good And Some Bad Sports Tech
The 2020 virtual NFL draft starts tomorrow online bringing with it, good and bad sports tech. The best of the good is the fact that this is streaming live sports content. Is the draft considered an actual live sport? That is debatable but since coronavirus has shut down most non-essential businesses at least until this…
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Kobe Bryant Impacted Sports Tech Like A Champion Sports Techie
Kobe Bryant is forever remembered in infamy now as an international basketball legend but you may not realize he was into sports tech from his youth until passing away at the age of 41 in a helicopter crash last Sunday in the Southern California San Fernando Valley. The tragic accident claimed the lives of nine…
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Ultimate Rivals Sports Game Franchise By Bit Fry Gaming Studios Available On Apple Arcade
Bit Fry is not a software code, fishing recipe or the nickname of the techie kid next door rather it is new, officially licensed sports gaming franchise featuring top players across all the major sport leagues. This is a first video game of its kind created by Bit Fry Game Studios located in New Hampshire.…
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NFL Pass Interference Instant Replay Challenge Reviews Set Up To Fail
NFL pass interference (PI) instant replay challenges and reviews have been doomed to fail since it was reluctantly voted in for the 2019/20 season by the Competition Committee made up of some of the unquestioned, top football minds in the sport but certainly not proponents of advanced technology in the game, especially New York Giants…
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THESportsTechie Autobiography Memoir Coming In 2020
THE Sports Techie is me. I have been in the sports technology industry more than 25 years. In my birthday month of 2020, it will be 10-years since I launched the Sports Techie community blog, trusted resource and original online sports tech community in America. Visit https://n5y.1cd.myftpupload.com/. Since then, I have made others believe I…
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NFLPA OneTeam Collective Invests in ByteCubed Labs to Enhance Mixed Reality Training and Fan Experiences
Mixed reality specialists and lifelike experiences experts at ByteCubed Labs received investment from the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) and their accelerator, One-Team Collective, last month. This sports tech partnership centers on using the likeness of current NFL players like Tom Brady, Odell Beckham Jr. and the more than 2,000 current players, as well as augmented…