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How G-Form Is Expanding Beyond Action Sports Into Soccer, Baseball

PEEKSKILL, N.Y. — On a scorching summer day in upstate New York, representatives from G-Form and Trek Bikes peddled up and down steep rock-laced trails to show how G-Form’s new line of knee and elbow pads can be used in different kinds of extreme conditions. G-Form, which makes a line of protective gear that is […]

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Toronto FC Offers Augmented Reality Face Paint Through Mobile App

Painting your face to support your favorite team is fun. Actually wearing the hot, sweaty paint is not. Through its mobile app, Toronto FC is offering an augmented reality “TFC Face Paint” experience. It will make it the first Major League Soccer team to offer AR through its official mobile app. Designed by YinzCam and presented […]

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Watch Jose Mourinho Prank Fans At Virtual Reality Press Conference

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho pranked football fans at a virtual reality (VR) press conference experience held in the U.K. last week. Top Eleven, an online soccer management simulation video game with over 160 million players worldwide, invited a number of its users to test what it called a VR “prototype” whereby they pretended to […]

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Premier League Receives Court Order To Combat Illegal Streaming

England’s High Court issued an order on behalf of the Premier League to require internet service providers in the United Kingdom to block servers illegally live-streaming matches. Such pirated content has apparently been rampant, with Kodi boxes and IPTV (internet protocol television) devices being used to circumvent the Premier League’s official broadcast partners. Sky Sports […]

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Dish Network Sues Univision Over Liga MX On Facebook Live

Dish Network has filed lawsuit against Univision over the Spanish-language channel’s plan to livestream Mexican professional soccer games, in English, on Facebook Live. The news site Cablefax wrote that it had seen a heavily redacted version of the complaint, which was filed in New York’s Southern District federal court earlier this month; the crux of […]

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