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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…

  • National Lacrosse League Signs Sportlogiq As Official Stats Partner

    National Lacrosse League (NLL) and Sportlogiq just signed an Official Statistics Partner deal. The multi-year contract delivers artificial intelligence (AI) powered stats to teams, partners and fans via live match data collected at all 13 NLL venues in the United States and Canada. The sport of lacrosse is exploding across North America making this partnership…

  • 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…

  • New Field of Dreams Ballpark Featuring White Sox and Yankees MLB Game Set For Aug 13, 2020

    Major League Baseball announced that on August 13, 2020 the new Field of Dreams (© Universal City Studios LLC)  ballpark, “MLB at _Field of Dreams_” will be ready for the Chicago White Sox and New York Yankee game played in a temporary ballpark constructed in the cornfield next to the original ballfield used for the movie…

  • Sportradar To Sell Official NFL Data And Next Gen Stats To Sports Betting Operators

    The term, “You can’t have your cake and eat it too,” is how I am defining the sports tech news announced yesterday regarding the new deal involving official NFL data and Next-Gen Stats distributed both domestically and internationally to legalized betting companies through an updated deal with Sportradar. This marks the first time the NFL…

  • 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…

  • Sports Betting Data During NBA Finals Drives Content and Fan Engagement

    Did anyone bet on the Golden State Warriors to be in five straight NBA Finals? Probably not since Las Vegas casinos would have certainly leaked this amazing sports wagering news by now after shorthanded DubNation swept the Portland Trail Blazers in 3 straight second half comeback games for the ages culminated by triple-double performances by…

  • MLL Reacquires Media Broadcast Rights, Drops 3 Teams, Seeks New Owners

    Major League Lacrosse wants brand exposure and economic growth for the 2019 MLL season and beyond through the execution of strategic plans centered on expanding into calculated markets. The newest good news is the MLL reacquired their media rights back and voted in the ‘one team, one owner’ structure. The bad news is contraction of…

  • FSTA Industry Awards and Name Change to Fantasy Sports & Gaming Association (FSGA)

    The Fantasy Sports Trade Association (FSTA) is to be known as the Fantasy Sports & Gaming Association (FSGA). The name and business change beginning in April was announcement at the Winter Conference in Tampa this week. Today, the old FSTA guard gave awards to companies leading the way in the industry. Yahoo won five fantasy…