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  • Falcons And Commanders Plus SADD’S Atlanta Join For Coach Knapp Stair Climb Campaign

    Coaches From Both Teams, Members of SADD’S Atlanta Chapter To Climb Mercedes Benz Stadium Stairs This Sunday Prior To Their Game To Help Raise a New High of over $400,000 For Distracted Driving Awareness The Coach Knapp Memorial Fund enters its fourth campaign dedicated to educating drivers on the dangers of distracted driving, reduce the…

  • 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…

  • ShotTracker For Basketball Raises $11 Million Via Evertz Technologies And Verizon Venture

    ShotTracker, (DDSports, Inc.) raised $11 million led by Evertz Technologies Limited and Verizon Ventures to continue developing their proprietary, performance data tracking sports technology system in use by 63 men’s and women’s college basketball programs across 12 conferences. Sensors are installed to capture stats and subsequent analytics with a mere sub-second latency enabling the use…

  • It Takes a Village to Raise Great Athletic Prodigies

    It Takes a Village to Raise Great Athletic Prodigies Everyone loves watching sports – that is just a worldwide fact. One way or another, we are a fan of the athleticism shown in any given sport. It can be basketball, volleyball, football, any sport! Sometimes we are not necessarily a fan of the sport to…

  • Klay Thompson Launches Family Foundation With Opus Bank

    Klay Thompson Launches Family Foundation With Opus Bank Klay Thompson, Golden State Warriors All-Pro guard, two-time NBA Championship and Washington State University legend launched a new non-profit together with his family, The Thompson Family Foundation. Together with Opus Bank, they will assist inner city folks around Los Angeles, Oakland and Nassau Bahamas.  I’ve been a big…

  • Why is Golf the Sportsman’s Sport?

    Why is Golf the Sportsman’s Sport? How many times have you seen pictures and/or videos of top sportsmen and women of other sports on the golf course? Be it Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton, England and Tottenham Hotspur soccer star Harry Kane or five-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback Tom Brady, it seems that golf truly…

  • Bandwagon Secondary Ticket Marketplace, Long Form

    BANDWAGON and the secondary market for tickets are disrupting the status quo for selling or buying a ticket to a college football game or sport event while at the same time capturing insightful and transparent buyer and seller identity data to help optimize best practices for business efficiency. Game day experiences and the fan experience…

  • Season Share Ticket Sharing App Launching At SXSW Pitch Accelerator

    Season Share Launches At SXSW Pitch Accelerator Event Season Share is launching at the ninth annual South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference and Festivals Startup Village® Accelerator® Pitch Event at Hilton Austin Downtown on March 21 with a beta version of the world’s first mobile ticket sharing app. The sports tech startup found a niche in…

  • TeamSnap Business Development Across Canada And The Atlantic League

    TeamSnap Expands in Canada with Club and League Management Product for Canadian Sports Organizations, and are the Official Management App of the Atlantic League. TeamSnap provides sports teams’ proprietary online management software and mobile apps to youth, recreational and competitive sport teams, clubs and leagues enabling technology-driven organization over the web and seamless communication through…

  • Sports Techie Q&A With CEO Of OpenSponsorship, Ishveen Anand

    What are the values of a sports tech startup accelerator or business incubator compared to boot strapping? The Sports Techie community blog has a new featured Q&A Series with Ishveen Anand, CEO of OpenSponsorship, the marketplace for sports sponsorship. The focus is the business of sports. In this first program, we ask the question whether…