Dallas Mavericks guard Spencer Dinwiddie has partnered with crypto payments startup Bitrefill to launch Bitsneaks, a sneaker with built-in 3G internet connectivity to livestream the price of Bitcoin.
The pricey sneaker costs 1 Bitcoin per pair and are being sold on bitsneaks.com.
Formula E is the only international sport to be certified as carbon-neutral since its inception.
Gabe Gault, an artist and son of former NFL wide receiver Willie Gault, wore Meta’s Oculus headset to create virtual reality murals of top draft picks while on-site at last night’s first-round of the NFL Draft in Las Vegas.
Gault, whose father won a Super Bowl ring with the mercurial 1985 Chicago Bears, operated the handheld Oculus controller to create individual “metaverse murals” of seven players selected in the first round.
Players’ animations appear on a virtual stage in the colors and logo of their college team and the colors transitioned to their new NFL team’s branding as they’re drafted.
Meta, the owner of Oculus, Facebook and Instagram, also launched a Vegas slot machine-themed Pick Predictor augmented reality lens on Instagram.
Amanda Serrano and Katie Taylor will each receive seven-figures for their historic fight Saturday at Madison Square Garden, the highest purse ever for a women’s boxing match.
These big fights, big paydays — there’s fighters out there who have worked long and hard in the gym since they’re nine or 10 years of age, and they’re not getting those pay days as well.
He’s pushed this fight for us to make the money that we are making and making it at Madison Square Garden,” added Puerto Rico’s Serrano, who has secured six figures in sponsorships for the fight via Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions.
Serrano and Taylor will be the first female fighters in the Garden’s 140-year history to headline a boxing card at the arena, which Taylor says will be a sellout.
I just find it very interesting myself from day-to-day, looking at the changes and the different levels of strain each day.
“I’m not planning to have a cell phone anytime soon, maybe when I retire in about a year or so.
Toronto-based CSC launched in 2021 with a focus on sports gaming, media, tech and data while HPLDS is a division of New York’s Hot Paper Lantern—a branding and marketing communications agency—that specializes in sports tech, betting and fantasy.
Berlin-based OneFootball already produces soccer content internationally, accruing more than 15,000 livestreams and on-demand content clips last year.
In-venue audio streaming app Mixhalo has hired Doug Holtzman as its new head of sports.
Fans at sporting events who prefer to watch while listening to broadcast commentary via headphones can use Mixhalo’s app to livestream play-by-play audio from home and away team radio broadcasts, Spanish language broadcasts and alternative celebrity commentary.
Trish Sylvia, NBC Sports Next’s VP of advocacy and engagement, will join the Play Sports Coalition board of directors.
Digital sports apparel startup Fancurve has raised $6.25 million with star German soccer players Mario Götze and André Schürrle investing in the seed round.
The company’s digital wearable collectibles will include soccer jerseys, and it plans to announce a partnership in May with a top club from Spain’s La Liga.
Fancurve’s co-founders include Infinite Esports & Entertainment founder Chris Chaney and Andrew Nestor, owner of Italian Serie A soccer club Bologna.
With the promo code WILSON10, youth under 18 years old can book court time for free directly on Break the Love’s online platform from April through November.
Break the Love’s online permit booking system is joined by the app’s other features such as the ability to sign up for tennis training classes, competitive leagues, social happy hours and to find individual opponents looking to play.
Former SurveyMonkey president Tom Hale has been hired as the new CEO of Oura, the sleep and fitness wearable company valued at $2.55 billion.
Finland-based Oura announced in March that it reached 1 million sales of its Oura Ring, which has signed athlete health-tracking partnerships with the NBA, WNBA, NASCAR, UFC, USA Surfing and MLB’s Seattle Mariners.
Workout heart rate monitoring, blood oxygen sensing and an upgraded sleep staging algorithm are among the features Oura plans to add to its Gen3 ring later this year.