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The Drone Racing League (DRL), the world's premier, professional circuit for drone racing, today announced that the first-ever fantasy virtual drone racing series, the 2020 FanDuel DRL SIM Racing Cup, will premiere on Saturday, May 16 at 2:30pm ET on NBCSN. The series will run for eight weekends on NBCSN and Twitter. The schedule is as follows: Saturday, May 16th at 2:30pm Sunday, May 24th at 3pm Sunday, May 31st at 2pm Sunday, June 7th a

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Torque Esports Corp. Frankly Inc. , and WinView, Inc. announced the completion of the business combination previously announced on March 10, 2020 resulting in the acquisition of each of Frankly and WinView by Torque, which will soon change its name to Engine Media Holdings, Inc. ("Engine Media"). It is expected that this transaction will place Engine Media at the forefront of esports, news streaming and sports gaming across multiple media platforms. The completion of the transaction

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For more than twenty years Mueller Sports Medicine has partnered with the Professional Football Athletic Trainers Society [PFATS] to help promote athlete health and safety to the National Football League and its players. “Mueller Sports Medicine has been honored to partner with PFATS for the last 20 years. We are proud to increase our support to become a PFATS Platinum sponsor for the first time and further support the athletic training profession.” John Cayer - Presiden

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As U.S. consumers tackle ways to keep themselves and their families busy, active, and fit during this time of social distancing, sports and home fitness equipment as well as children’s and adult leisure bicycles have seen double- and triple-digit sales increases, according to retail sales data from The NPD Group. With schools closed and sports leagues cancelled, adults have been tasked with inventing recess and physical activity for their kids. Goals and nets, hoop systems, an

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ProsToYou Tennis (PTY) announces the acquisition of TopNotch Tennis (TNT). With the purchase of TNT, PTY officially becomes the largest tennis service provider for Swim & Tennis Clubs in the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area. "During these unprecedented times, we need to come together as a community and what better way to do this by having the two most prominent tennis service providers join forces together. As we become one tennis family, PTY will be able to access more re

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Central Florida based Sportzcast announces SportzDesigner, their newest application for custom easy graphic overlays. SportzDesigner is the next generation replacement for Sportzcast’s Windows PC based LiveSportsCG. Users will continue to enjoy the powerful features of LiveSportsCG along with the enhancements that SportzDesigner brings. SportzDesigner is browser based and can be used on any operating system. Users with virtually no graphic or broadcast design background experience will

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Leveraging more than 110 years of combined adaptive sports experience, Disabled Sports USA and Adaptive Sports USA are merging to become Move United. This new organization will lead the movement to fully include people with disabilities in American society, using sport to challenge perceptions and redefine ability for youth and adults with disabilities. Move United’s network will launch across more than 200 chapters in 43 states offering 100,000 youth and adults with disabilit

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Universal Tennis announced the UTR Pro Match Series Presented by Tennis Channel featuring top ATP and WTA players in tournament play. The UTR Pro Match Series presented by Tennis Channel will be broadcast live on Tennis Channel and will be the first top tier professional tennis events televised internationally since the global health crisis put a halt to tennis in March. The UTR Pro Match Series showcases a vision for how tennis can be played locally and safely through one-on-one ma

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Sports Innovation Lab, the leading market intelligence platform and research provider for the sports industry, today launched the Power Play Index - an innovative and unbiased decision making tool that empowers brands to understand which companies are best positioned to enable the fan behaviors that matters most. Today, that behavior is all around connectivity as it relates to deploying the safety and security technology that is going to be essential to bringing fans back into sports venues.

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The National Football League (NFL) and Amazon announced they have reached a multi-year agreement to renew their exclusive partnership to deliver a live digital stream of Thursday Night Football Presented by Bud Light Platinum to a global audience across hundreds of compatible devices. Amazon Prime Video and Twitch will stream the 11 Thursday Night Football games broadcast by FOX, which will be available to more than 150 million paid Prime members worldwide, and in over 200 countries and terri

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