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  • New NASCAR Production HQ Next To Research And Development Center

    A new NASCAR Productions facility is set to begin construction this year. The plan is to build the 58,000 square foot headquarters on land next to the existing NASCAR R&D Center in Concord, North Carolina. This news today out of Daytona Beach, Florida reaffirms the company’s mission to provide fans with enhanced content bringing them…

  • Franklin Sports Signs Professional Pickleball’s Top Ranked Johnson Family

    Franklin Sports signed the first family of Pickleball, the Johnson family, to an exclusive partnership yesterday. JW Johnson, Joria Johnson and Julie Johnson round out the family’s trifecta of athletes, each signing a deal to design for Franklin while being provided with pickleball gear. The fact is, pickleball was named the fastest growing sport in…

  • GoFundMe, Tough Mudder, Venture Endurance Series Innovate Endurance Athlete Fundraising

    GoFundMe is the new official fundraising sponsor with Tough Mudder and the Venture Endurance Series. What that means is endurance athletes now have the option to rally fundraised money as an integrated part of registration to support dear causes and charities. Ventures Endurance compiled data shows runners are 1.7x more commitment than the rest of…

  • Ones Basketball Association And Tracy McGrady Launch 1v1 Tournament

    Ones Basketball Association. What does that make you think about? If you guessed one-on-one, elite hoops competition with one ruler of the court, you got it right. Seven-time NBA All-Star, Basketball Hall-of-Famer Tracy McGrady, is all in with this novel sport business concept. The Sports Techie community blog is notifying potential participants and fans about…

  • Swet Tailor Sponsors Reese’s Senior Bowl Off Field Wardrobe

    Swet Tailor is back as off-the-field wardrobe sponsor of the Reese’s Senior Bowl, dressing more than 130 of the standout draft prospects and coaches with EveryDay. EveryWear,™ menswear. Elite and undiscovered talent from around the nation have an opportunity to rise to the post-season college football all-star game top on February 5, 2022 while dressing…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Record Number 2021 NFL Draft Picks Trained With VKTRY Insoles

    VKTRY GEAR counted 74 NFL Draft picks, including 33 in the first three rounds, as wearers of their Performance Insoles as they prepped for the just completed 2021 draft, especially during Pro Days. Topping the user list was Florida tight end Kyle Pitts, drafted fourth by the Atlanta Falcons, a new record high selection for…

  • NASCAR Next Gen Chevy, Ford And Toyota Cars Forge Ahead With Sports Tech

    NASCAR shared three new models of Next Gen Cars on Wednesday afternoon in Charlotte, North Carolina. These revolutionary stock cars were two years in the making by Chevy, Ford and Toyota, in addition to all the OEM, automotive parts and supply-chain vendors, and countless others involved in the collaborative process. They all worked together to…