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Here are our top stories in sports technology.

Sports Technology:

• FIFA's Innovation Program| Is helping companies develop promising prototypes to reach global standards.The three inaugural members are Vivaturf, PlayerMaker, & Vieww .
• SportsIcon| Will be debuting between 15 and 20 NFTs, created in collaboration with athletes, that commemorate specific, historic moments from their sporting careers.
• Gamchanger| The #1 rated youth sports app for team management, scorekeeping and live game streaming, today announced that it became the official scorekeeping app and pitch count technology partner of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA).

Funding News:

• Supersapiens
• Shoot 360
• Better Collective

Here are our top stories in sports & sports technology.

Sports:

• NFL Draft & The Justin Fields Disrespect

Sports Tech (10min mark)

• The Golden State Warriors | today launched a new NFT (non-fungible token) collection, becoming the first team in U.S. professional sports to release their own officially licensed NFTs.
• The Minnesota Twins | announced a partnership with Techstars for an accelerator program called "The Minnesota Twins Accelerator by Techstars,"
• Bowling franchise Bowlero has partnered with sports betting content company BettorView to present betting content at Bowlero locations.

Here are our top stories in sports & sports technology.

Sports:

• Is there anything in sports better than watching Steph Curry?

Sports Tech:

• Athletics3D | is an App that aims to help coaches and athletes in track and field in their training by providing 3D animated videos of various track and field events. The 3D animations demonstrate the proper way of performing 9 different track and field events
• KAV | Delivers 3D printed helmets for improved protection & fit in hockey

Funding Rouds:

• Phenix | The go-to provider for real-time video streaming solutions.
• AmazeVR | the virtual reality concert company
• Grid Esports

Here are our top sports technology stories

News

• NBA & CLEAR's Health Pass Technology partner for arena entry assistance.

Sports Tech

• ePlay- prepares for the release and launch of their newest proprietary technologies, such as an augmented-reality fitness app to be officially announced soon.
• SKEO- is startup that wants to give everyone free access to tracking and coaching during their ski runs simply using their smart phone.

Funding Round

• A lot of funding news as we were off last week

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Here are our top sports technology stories.

Sports-ish:

• Sterling discusses the bachelor's racial crossroads

Sports Technology

• Vitruvian Trainer, a digital resistance weight training system, designed to connect to your smart tv & phone app providing workouts & smart resistance for its users
• Golf Simulators, are they here to stay or a flash in the pan?

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Here are our top sports tech stories.

Sports:

• NBA TopShot Trading Frenzy, moments selling for $100k+

Tech Stories

• Pixellot, Sports Engine Expand Partnership to Provide Automated Cameras to Youth Sports
• Intel’s 3DAT technology...enabling trainers to use videos and then take that information, synthesize it and turn it into something tangible for coaches and athletes to use.

Funding Round News

Here our top stories in sports & sports technology.

Sports

• Discussion: Long term lucrative pro contracts, good or bad?
• Why are their different QB comparisons between Dak Prescott & Deshaun Watson?

Sports Tech

• Sky Worlds brings VR in an immersive 180 degree viewing experience for Premier League Soccer
• NFL says the first position-specific helmet created for its players represents a major step in helmet technology. The helmet released by VICIS provides additional support in the front, where most head impacts take place

Funding News!

Sports

• NBA- can you be a contender when you’re best player can’t get his own shot in the final minutes?

Sports Tech (23 min mark)

• Youth Sports Coaching App Mojo, providing youth coaches high level training/expertise from professional coaches.
• Light Lace, Using Laser Sensors, athletic wear that sense when your muscles are being overworked.

Funding News

We're bringing you a mix of sports and sports technology

Sports

• The issue with sports hall of fame voting.

Sports Tech

• Sporting goods manufacturer Rawlings has reached a new partnership with motion sensor technology company Blast Motion.
• Hyperice, the maker of handheld massage and therapeutic devices, has acquired RecoverX, a startup whose wearable devices supply heating and cooling therapy.
• Perfect Game, the youth baseball and softball scouting service, has partnered with the biomechanics wearable company K-Motion to create PG Tech, a new venture that will provide amateur ball with scouting and player development data.

Sports Tech Funding News

The sports news world collides with our sports technology world.

• College Basketball, and the struggle of blueblood programs
• NFL's non-hiring of African American coaches (discussion)
• NFL Divisional Championship Games

30min mark | Sports Tech

• Senaptec, is a biotech company that focuses on sensory performance. They have developed hardware technology (stroboscopic eyewear) and tools to assess athletes’ sensory performance and identify specific sensory parameters they can work on further to help reach their full potential.

Funding news