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MLB Activates RealResponse Anonymous Texting System And Texter Tool
Major League Baseball located in New York, NY will begin rolling out RealResponse’s (@RealResponseHQ) award-winning safe and secure feedback, monitoring, and anonymous reporting platform used by athletic teams and organizations across the United States. The press release announcement today states the implementation by MLB of the RealResponse Anonymous Texting system to gather reports of misconduct…
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Big Ten Conference Installs Data Clymer Fan Analytics And Cloud Infrastructure
The Big Ten Conference is innovating by partnering with Data Clymer to build a robust, scalable and secure cloud-based platform to perform a data culture transformation to be more fan engagement friendly. The premier consulting firm specializing in data engineering counts the Las Vegas Raiders, Minnesota Vikings, and San Francisco Giants as similar minded, data-driven…
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Strat-O-Matic Ready With MLB 2022 Regular Season Simulation Opening Day
The original fantasy sports game, Strat-O-Matic, has your MLB lockout back with the 2022 regular season simulation ready for Opening Day. Fans need not worry about billionaire owners locking out millionaire players (most actually earn the league minimum salary sitting at $570,500) since Dec. 2 because the market leader in sports simulation is ready to…
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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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GM School Season 2 Presented By SAP, NBA And Turner Sports
SAP is the data and stats analytics partner of the stat-loving NBA. The partners announced details surrounding Season 2 of its advanced analytics, head-to-head reality show, GM School Powered by SAP. It debuts tonight, October 1 at 9 PM ET on NBA TV. The goal is to graduate from #GMSchool as the last one standing which…
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Baseball should welcome robot umpires sooner rather than later
“You cannot be serious” shouted John McEnroe as he berated umpire Edward James at Wimbledon in the first round of 1981 competition against Tom Gullikson. The American was irate that the official had not seen the chalk fly into the air, siding with the line judge monitoring the middle line of the court. It provided…
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Fauci Opening Day TOPPS NOW Card Sets Sales Record
COVID-19 is surging across much of America and so was Dr. Anthony Facui’s TOPPS NOW card illustrating his MLB opening day first pitch last Thursday before the New York Yankees and Washington Nationals game as it sold a record 51,512 cards distributed via the TOPPS Company platform. Perhaps his selection was a premonition against the…
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2020 NFL Season: Health, and Safety Concerns
We are just a little over a month away from regular-season NFL football and pre-season kicks off in just a few weeks. So what can we expect from the NFL as far as new protocols and safely regulations related to the world’s latest disaster, SARS-2 COVID 19? The Sports Techie community blog understands the need…
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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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Sportico Sports Digital Content Is New Penske Media Sport Business Company
Sportico is the newest sports business digital content property to enter into the worldwide media and publishing industries with the financial, technological and infrastructure backing of Penske Media Corporation (PMC). The entity’s name is a blend of “sport” and “company.” They plan to cover the business aspect of sports. Dick Glover and Scott Soshnick are…