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Kansas City Chiefs Plan Mobile-Only Ticketing Switch This Season

The Kansas City Chiefs plan to move to a mobile-only ticketing system at Arrowhead Stadium in the near future, mirroring plans from teams across professional sports that are experimenting with ways fans can use their smartphones rather than paper tickets to check-in to games. At the National Football League’s annual meeting last week, Chiefs President […]

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Under Armour Reveals MyFitnessPal Data Breach Affecting 150 Million Users

Under Armour has revealed a data breach affecting 150 million MyFitnessPal users, leading to millions of stolen usernames, emails and passwords. On Thursday, Under Armour said that an unauthorized party acquired personal data from MyFitnessPal user accounts. While the breach occurred in late February 2018, the company said it only become aware of the issue […]

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MLB.TV To Launch Catch Up Feature For Game Streams

Major League Advanced Media is working on a “Catch Up” feature to help fans joining a broadcast in progress to quickly review the action they missed. If, say, an MLB.TV subscriber logs into the livestream of a game in the fourth inning, the app can play a reel of the key moments from the first […]

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Golden Knights To Curb Away Attendance In Playoffs With Digital Tickets

The Vegas Golden Knights are attempting to curb attendance of away-team fans at home games in the playoffs with a new digital ticketing program that stops ticket holders from reselling on StubHub. The Las Vegas-based hockey team will offer cheap tickets to season ticket holders for its first-round playoff series through a newly-created “Knights Vow” […]

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Turner Sports Launches OTT Service B/R Live To Host Game Streams

NEW YORK — The origin story for Bleacher Report Live — Turner Sports’ soon-to-launch OTT platform offering a personalized live sports hub — dates to finding a solution for a very real Saturday afternoon need. A group of friends a few years ago were out at a lakehouse scouring the dial for an SMU football […]

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