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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: May 10, 2024

Start your morning with Buzzcast with Austin Karp: A very merry NFL Christmas on Netflix? The Braves and F1 deliver for Liberty Media investors; the WNBA heads to Toronto; and Zelle gets in on team sports sponsorship.

Phoenix Mercury/NBC’s Cindy Brunson, NBA Media Deal, Network Upfronts

On this week’s pod, SBJ’s Austin Karp chats with SBJ NBA writer Tom Friend about the pending NBA media Deal. Cindy Brunson of NBC and Phoenix Mercury is our Big Get this week. The sports broadcasting pioneer talks the upcoming WNBA season. Later in the show, SBJ media writer Mollie Cahillane gets us set for the upcoming network upfronts.

SBJ I Factor: Molly Mazzolini

SBJ I Factor features an interview with Molly Mazzolini. Elevate's Senior Operating Advisor – Design + Strategic Alliances chats with SBJ’s Ross Nethery about the power of taking chances. Mazzolini is a member of the SBJ Game Changers Class of 2016. She shares stories of her career including co-founding sports design consultancy Infinite Scale career journey and how a chance encounter while working at a stationery store launched her career in the sports industry. 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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