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Catapult


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The Australian sports analytics company continues to grow rapidly, purchasing XOS Digital and Irish GPS tracking firm PlayerTek for nearly $64 million combined, expanding its presence in basketball and football, and making successful entries in wearable technology for baseball and hockey.


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Eaton’s Ephesus lighting solution


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The upstate New York outfit has played a leading role in the sports industry’s shift to LED lighting at stadiums and arenas across the NFL, MLB, NHL and NBA. Ephesus also was selected to “Light Up Martinsville,” becoming NASCAR’s first track with LED, and landed installations at more than a dozen major college venues.



Intel


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A sharply heightened emphasis on sports saw the technology giant make an eye-catching series of big bets last year in virtual reality, player performance analytics, and advanced video replays, in turn partnering with many of the world’s biggest sports entities. Click here for video from last year’s MLB All-Star Game.



Teamworks


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Teamworks’ group organization platform has become a preferred provider for more than a thousand pro and college clients, streamlining a wide array of scheduling and messaging needs into an elegant mobile-based solution.


SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

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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