It’s been nearly 100 years since eight Chicago White Sox players were accused of intentionally throwing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds. Since then, player salaries have increased exponentially throughout professional sports, reducing incentives to intentionally lose a game. But the same can’t be said for unpaid collegiate athletes, raising concerns about how […]
Intel has confirmed plans to shutter its wearables business after an unsuccessful few years trying to get it off the ground, but it remains heavily invested in the sports industry generally. After spending hundreds of millions of dollars over the past five years attempting to build a wearables business that saw it dabbling in fitness […]
The NFL’s New England Patriots will launch a secondary ticket exchange in partnership with Ticketmaster for the 2018 season that will allow fans to securely buy and sell tickets through Patriots.com. With the service, which bears a liking to ticket site Stubhub, Ticketmaster has been named the official ticketing marketplace for Patriots tickets at Gillette […]
Major League Soccer’s Real Salt Lake (RSL) is the first American franchise to partner with a local TV station for OTT streaming. The deal between KSL-TV and RSL allows the Salt Lake City station to stream the team’s (and its affiliates’) games via an OTT app. The deal comes as many national broadcast companies are […]
ESPN’s new over-the-top streaming service, ESPN+, which recently became available with a Netflix-like interface of original and live programming through the upgraded ESPN app, launched officially on Tuesday as a Roku channel. The service, available for $4.99 a month or $49.99 for the year, can be streamed through a newly-upgraded ESPN channel on the Roku […]
