The NFL Players Association has become one of the first major U.S. sports organizations to bet on blockchain after scooping up a minority stake in SportsCastr. The social streaming platform...
NEW YORK — After the New Orleans Saints became the first NFL team to use Zebra Technology’s radio-based tracking system during practices, the players became “very aware that they’re being tracked,” said former wide receiver Marques Colston. “We all knew we had an RFID tag in our shoulder pads,” he said on a panel during […]
Ahmad Nassar remembers walking through the 2.6 million net square feet of exhibit space at CES last year and being hit immediately with a rush of emotion. As a first-time visitor to the annual high-level business event that drew over 180,000 attendees in 2017, Nassar – the President of NFL Players, Inc., since 2014 – […]
Yesterday we were proud to announce the launch of the SportTechie Podcast with Bram Weinstein via this short audio introduction. Today we welcome Ahmad Nassar, President of NFL Players Inc., the licensing and marketing arm of the NFL Players Association, on the show as the first guest of this new weekly podcast. Nassar discusses the new OneTeam Collective program which […]
