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TENNIS MEDIA’S TOUR SHIFTS TO THE CLAY
APRIL 2 – Charleston’s Volvo Car Open
APRIL 9 – Houston’s Clay Court Championship
APRIL 16 – Monte-Carlo Masters
APRIL 23 – Barcelona Open
MAY 7 – Madrid Open
MAY 14 – Rome Open
Culminating in the 2nd Slam of the Year – Roland Garros (French Open) May 27 – June 10
TENNIS MEDIA: Tennis Channel, Tennis.com & Tennis Magazine
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Thursday, April 12 | 8:30am – 10:30am | NYAC, NYC
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Pepsi detailed its 2018 baseball season plans, anchored by 2017 Rookie of the Year New York Yankee Aaron Judge, who will join in on the brand’s year-long global campaign, Pepsi Generations, and will be featured in one of his first national TVCs under the “This Is The Pepsi” tagline. Along with the commercial, Pepsi will be releasing additional digital content with the right fielder throughout the season and feature the athlete in the “Judge For Yourself” campaign that celebrates Pepsi Zero Sugar and the New York Yankees throughout the Northeast.
Major League Baseball and USA Baseball unveiled two girls baseball events coming this April and May/June – the second annual ‘Trailblazer Series’ (running April 13-15) and the first-ever Girls Baseball ‘Breakthrough Series’ Showcase & Development Camp (May 31-June 4). MLB and USA Baseball are also set to launch a groundbreaking new event specifically designed for the on-field development and scouting of female baseball players. The Girls Baseball Breakthrough Series is the newest iteration of the existing, diversity-focused amateur development camps operated by MLB, USA Baseball and USA Softball.
NBC Sports Group officially launched the NASCAR America Fantasy League, available on NASCAR’s Fantasy Live platform. The 10-week league will allow fans to set their fantasy lineups and play against NASCAR on NBC’s broadcasters beginning this weekend as the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series at Texas Motor Speedway. Fantasy league results will also be featured weekly on NASCAR America.
The NBA announced that Kia’s fan voting program on NBA.com/KiaFanVote and Twitter has expanded to include all the end of season Kia NBA Performance Awards – Kia NBA Most Improved Player, Kia NBA Sixth Man of the Year, Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year, and Kia NBA Rookie of the Year. Voting closes on April 13, and fans can vote once per day.
Christina Alejandre, GM of ELEAGUE & VP of Esports at Turner Sports, is departing the organization in a mutual decision between herself and the company. Alejandre tweeted that “I loved my time with ELEAGUE and want to thank my amazing colleagues, our fans and the esports community. I’m proud of what we accomplished over these last few years and am looking forward to my next adventure.” A replacement has not been named, although company sources say that they remain strongly committed to ELEAGUE and esports.
Ahead of the NBA 2K League inaugural draft, Kings Guard Gaming announced that three-time cover player, broadcaster and Sacramento Kings minority owner Shaquille O’Neal has been named General Manager of the team where he will “provide valuable basketball counsel as the team assembles its roster and evaluates the 102 players available in the upcoming draft.” “I’m looking forward to my role with Kings Guard,” said O’Neal. “Just like I dominated the hardwood, music industry, showbiz, nicknames and broadcasting, I plan to help build the most dominant 2K franchise in history.”
Overwatch League is changing it up for Stage 3, which begins this week, announcing that the top four teams from each stage will now qualify for Stage Playoffs, while the Stage Finals will now be played in three matches within a bracket format on the Sunday following the last games of the stage on Saturday. The top seed will now be able to choose its opponent in the first round from the other three teams participating in the bracket.
STATS named Mike Perez as its new Chief Operating Officer. Perez joins STATS from the Tidewater Group.
Bruins/Lightning on NBCSN at 7:30p.
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Tuesday, May 22nd | 8:30am – 10:30am | NYC
Given the remarkable initiatives and groundbreaking campaigns that we received for this year’s Cynopsis Social Good Awards , we’re thrilled to announce this year’s finalists whose efforts are bringing communities into a much brighter place for the new year.
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ON THIS DAY in 2007: Tennessee and coach Pat Summitt become NCAA champions for a seventh time, beating Rutgers 59-46.
In the Know: Which golfer has competed the most times at the Masters? (Email [email protected] with your answer and be sure to include your name, company and city.)
Answer to Our Last Sports Trivia Question: Lefty Driesell took four schools to the NCAA Tournament: Davidson, Maryland, James Madison and…? Answer: Georgia State. Kudos: Marc Wollis-Cadent Network/NY; Denis Barry-CBS/NY; Michael Ritz-BucStar Consulting/NY; Christian Matthews-Washington Redskins/DC; Joe Schreiber-3 Penny Films/Bethesda; Rich Dubroff-PressBoxonline.com/Baltimore; Michael G. Hawkins-Francis Marion University/Florence; Andy Pittman-TAMU/College Station; Rich McArdle-Chiefs Radio Network/Kansas City; Lance Phegley-Texas Runner and Triathlete magazine/Houston; Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA; David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA Federal Credit Union/Burbank; Howie Schwab-FOX Sports/LA
Later – Chris
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