- Sports tech consultant Next League built the TGL’s fan-facing website and app while also migrating the TMRW Sports corporate site into the same backend ahead of the tech-infused golf league's Tuesday night debut.
- Sony and the NFL introduced a prototype of the league’s new official coach-to-coach communication headset onstage at CES on Monday night, reports my SBJ colleague Joe Lemire. It will include Sony’s noise-cancelling and sound quality technologies and run on Verizon’s 5G network. Sony became an official NFL technology partner in July, and the new headset will debut on the sidelines during the 2025 season.
- In his first SBJ Facilities newsletter of 2025, Bret McCormick covers a new tie-up between venue seating firms Irwin and bluecube for Venue360, a system of interrelated and interchangeable furniture equipment that all fits on a rail system embedded in a platform floor, minimizing the need for more permanent connection to sports venues’ seating bowl concrete.
- Smart Ball maker Sportable acquired Intaneous, a computer vision and sports graphics company, to expand its data visualization and storytelling, writes Lemire. Sportable works with ball manufacturers to place sensors inside of the sport’s central piece of equipment to collect data on its position, movement and location for uses cases across performance, fan engagement and officiating.
- The Orlando Magic Venture Challenge, a pitch event to discover and support innovations in sports, the fan experience, health and wellness, will be at Kia Center on March 26, notes my SBJ colleague Juwan Watson.
- Mobile motion capture provider BeOne Sports is the official technology partner of this week’s Hula Bowl, where it will track the college football all-star game’s athletes through practice and combine drills, reports Lemire.
