For former NBA slam dunk champion Jason Richardson, the value of legacy isn’t what he could throw down but what he can pass down. Richardson won the NBA Slam Dunk Contest during his first two seasons in the league in 2002 and 2003–including an inbound pass and a reverse slam during his second year. He’s…
The new NBA All-Star format drew mixed reviews from both viewers and players, but sponsors still bought into Warner Bros. Discovery’s vision for the weekend. According to Jon Diament, Warner Bros. Discovery’s evp of advertising sales, the company sold out the entire weekend’s ad inventory for NBA All-Star 2025 on TNT, truTV, TBS, Bleacher Report,…
New York Liberty CEO Keia Clarke lived through her team’s past and celebrated its championship present. Now, she’s ready to build its legacy. During a panel hosted by The Female Quotient at Google Pixel’s Player’s Lounge on NBA All-Star Weekend, Clarke addressed the audience in a Liberty varsity jacket from the team’s partners at fashion…
After tipping their pitches considerably in recent years, Major League Baseball and ESPN announced Thursday that they have “mutually agreed” to end their broadcast rights deal with three years left to go. While MLB and the sports network have been paired in one form or another since 1990, their current deal was supposed to extend…
In case you missed it, Nike is betting big on Kim Kardashian’s Skims. The pair have just announced a collaboration: NikeSkims, an activewear brand for women that will launch this spring. Like most things Kardashian touches, the news created a big buzz. Within 24 hours of the announcement, Nike’s share price rose 6.2%, adding $6.7…
Basketball culture isn’t built around the rules of a skills competition or the format of an all-star game, and the fans that flooded San Francisco for NBA All-Star Weekend illustrated that difference. Amid the blocks between Union Square and the Moscone Center, along the path from Chase Center to Pier 48, and on the BART…
Dick’s Sporting Goods is enlisting sports creators. The retailer is expanding a program called Dick’s Varsity Team, which will give young athletes a 10-month contract to create and share Instagram content that can be used on the retailer’s own channels. Creators will receive monthly gift cards to buy products used in their content. Additionally, creators…
The Super Bowl matchup that saw the Philadelphia Eagles defeat the Kansas City Chiefs was the most-watched game ever. Naturally, Philadelphia and Kansas City led the way in this historic milestone when it came to local markets with the most viewership. Newly released numbers from Fox Sports show that Philadelphia had 52.5% of its viewing…
In just a handful of decades, esports has leveled up from a niche, underground hobby to a heavyweight sporting contender commanding attention on a major scale. Global streaming audiences reached 625.8 million in 2024, stealing home from the MLB’s 171 million-strong fan base and even dunking on the NBA’s audience of 155.9 million. Meanwhile, the…
Lindsey Moppert is leaving WGRZ in Buffalo after more than two years. The sports anchor and reporter joined the station in 2022. Buffalo media writer Alan Pergament said the NBC affiliate’s news director Jeremy Settle told the staff in an email that Moppert is leaving to “return home and be closer to her family.” “Lindsey…
Tubi is bringing super deals to the Super Bowl. Today, Tubi announced The Tubi Red Carpet Shop, a new shoppable experience co-created in partnership with Shopsense AI. Through digital storefronts, viewers can purchase items curated across Tubi’s collection of movies and TV shows, including more than 300 exclusive originals. All viewers have to do is…
For football fans curious to know the history of New Orleans’ Caesars Superdome–which will host Super Bowl 59 on Sunday–its homepage features an interactive timeline brimming with trivia. Beyonce, the Rolling Stones, and Taylor Swift have packed the Superdome’s seats. Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard have boxed beneath its dome. The 50-year-old venue has…
During Super Bowl 57 in 2023, Rihanna subtly touched up her makeup in the middle of her halftime show performance, using Fenty Beauty blotting powder to quickly dab her nose between songs. This three-second moment generated $5.6 million in media impact value (MIV) for Fenty in the first 12 hours following the show, per Launchmetrics….
Paramount is setting itself up for a big win in the AFC Championship game. Today, the company announced that, for the first time, it’s bringing live, shoppable ads to Sunday’s NFL playoff matchup between the Buffalo Bills and the Kansas City Chiefs. To do so, the company is promoting its CBS Sports HQ digital storefront,…
Patrick Mahomes’ new brand partnership has some bite. After years of fan theories and speculation online that Mahomes uses Invisalign–with internet sleuths suspecting the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback was seen chewing on an Invisalign on the sidelines–Mahomes is finally setting the record (and his chompers) straight: He is an Invisalign user. And the QB is…
Super Bowl 59 takes place on Sunday, Feb. 9, at 6:30 p.m. ET from the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, and around a month before the game, Fox is unveiling even more ways to watch. On Wednesday, Fox, the Super Bowl 59 broadcaster, announced that Fox Sports will roll out a Tubi takeover for the…
State Farm has canceled plans to run an ad during Super Bowl 59 and has paused filming on a campaign with a tie-in to Apple TV+ drama Severance as the Los Angeles wildfires continue to burn. The Super Bowl ad would have been State Farm’s second consecutive year in the game. Last year’s ad, created…
Rob Gronkowski can’t kick a field goal on Super Bowl Sunday, so FanDuel is turning to New Orleans’ own Peyton Manning and Eli Manning to get it done at Super Bowl 59. After watching the former New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end shank kicks during its Super Bowl ads in 2023 and…
Venu Sports is officially out of the game. Today, Disney-owned ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery announced in a joint statement that Venu Sports, their proposed virtual MVPD service, will be discontinued. The decision is effective immediately. It comes the same week that Disney announced a deal to combine its Hulu + Live TV business…
Getting women’s sports a larger share of overall sports coverage is a team effort, and Religion of Sports, Ensemble, Deep Blue Sports + Entertainment, and Roku have combined forces to attack that goal. This week, the group announced its launch of the Next is Now women’s sports anthology docuseries on The Roku Channel later this…
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