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PGA Tour, Intel Ink Partnership On Live VR, 360 Video Content

The PGA Tour and Intel today announced a deal to produce and distribute live VR and 360 video at six PGA Tour events in '17 and '18, beginning with this week's Tour Championship. The agreement also includes next week's Presidents Cup at Liberty National Golf Club. Intel will produce the live VR content with Intel True VR technology. The live VR experience can be viewed on Samsung Gear VR headsets through the PGA Tour VR Live app, which is available for free on the Oculus store.

Also today, the PGA Tour announced it will implement a new Integrity Program, effective Jan. 1, to protect competitions from potential outside influences related to gambling (THE DAILY).

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On this week’s Sports Media Podcast from the New York Post and Sports Business Journal, ESPN’s Jay Bilas talks all things NCAA. Big Ten Network’s Meghan McKeown shares her insight into the Caitlin Clark craze. The Boston Globe’s Chad Finn chats all things Bean Town. And SBJ’s Xavier Hunter drops in to share his findings on how the NWSL is making a social media push.

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SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

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