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ESPN Commemorates V Week With 24-Hour Livestream on Twitch

For 10 years, ESPN and ABC have been putting on special programming to commemorate V Week, a weeklong tribute to the V Foundation, a cancer research organization founded by ESPN in memory of North Carolina State basketball coach Jim Valvano. This, the 11th year of such programming, featured a decidedly contemporary addition. Twitch partnered with […]

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Nielsen Report: ESports Fan Base Growing, Increasingly Complex

A report published Wednesday by Nielsen outlines a number of key facts and figures about the current esports audience in the U.S., U.K., France, and Germany. One telling statistic is that Call of Duty is by far the most popular game for esports fans in America, with 61 percent of esports fans playing—even more so […]

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Baltimore Ravens Debut NFL’s First Augmented Reality Face Painting

This season, fans of the Baltimore Ravens can get their gameface on without actually doing anything to their face. The Ravens are the first NFL team to use augmented reality face painting, courtesy of a partnership with AR firm Faceware Interactive, according to an official team announcement. Powered also by technology from Image Metrics, augmented […]

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Warriors’ Andre Iguodala Prioritizes Women, Diversity In Tech

Opening herself up to a room of potential judgement, Ashley Wellington-Fahey, the founder of the female-targeted digital sports network The Relish, sat alongside major male athletes at The Players Technology Summit in San Francisco and reminded herself that she deserved to be in the room. The inaugural mostly off-the-record event, hosted this week by Golden […]

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