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For the first time, 16 of the top 115-pound female fighters in the world will be hand-picked to form a new women’s strawweight division in the UFC. The fighters live together in the house, train under coaches Gilbert Melendez and current lightweight champion Anthony Pettis, and battle it out in a tournament-style bracket. In the end only one woman will be crowned champion, and earn the first-ever UFC strawweight belt.
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Good morning. It’s Thursday, August 21, 2014, and this is your first early morning Sports briefing.
Major League Soccer and KickTV are the latest to sign on for a content partnership, collaboration and distribution agreement with The Whistle Sports Network. The deal will surround The Whistle’s recently launched Xbox application. KickTV on YouTube offers all things soccer with more than 1.1M regular subscribers, 13 channels and over 110M views. Meanwhile, The Whistle Sports Network launched its YouTube presence in January 2014 and has since scaled to more than 6.8M subscribers, 140 channel partners and more than one billion views, making it the most subscribed sports property in the world on that platform.
“This partnership with The Whistle will allow MLS and KICKTV to reach an audience of 80 million engaged XBOX users who align very well with our target of young tech-savvy soccer fans," said Chris Schlosser, VP, MLS Digital. “Their Xbox app looks amazing and we are excited to be involved with the launch. The Whistle understands our audience, knows how to keep fans engaged and will be a great partner for content collaboration and distribution.”
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FOX Sports 1 debuts Fantasy Football Uncensored on Saturday at noon featuring Jay Glazer and actor/comedian David Spade along with their celebrity friends in a “weekly battle of football knowledge and smack.” The one-hour draft special will then re-air on FOX on Sunday at 2p. Glazer will be joined by Spade, Nick Swardson and Brody Stevens, Rascal Flatts’ bassist Jay DeMarcus, MMA icon Chuck Liddell, No Filter’s Katie Nolan, and actor Jerry Ferrara with the group competing through FOX Fantasy Football on FOXSports.com. One final entry, representing NFL on FOX, consists of rotating appearances by Brian Urlacher, John Lynch, Ronde Barber and David Diehl.
Golf Channel’s coverage of the 2014 United States Ryder Cup will begin with U.S. Captain Tom Watson’s Captain’s Picks press conference on Tuesday, Sept. 2, Coverage begins at 6p with an hour-long special edition of Golf Central, followed by live coverage of the PGA of America’s press conference with Watson and live via satellite interviews with his three additions to the 2014 U.S. Ryder Cup team.
ESPN International announced today it has reached a five-year rights agreement with the PGA TOUR to continue presenting coverage of PGA TOUR events across all means and media in Latin America and the Caribbean. The rights extension provides ESPN International with live media rights on its linear and digital platforms and extends the longstanding partnership with the PGA TOUR in Latin American through 2019.
Former 16-year NFL veteran and All-Pro linebacker London Fletcher and nine-year NFL veteran Fred Smoot have been named studio analysts for CBS Sports Network’s That Other Pregame Show, along with former Women’s Professional Football quarterback Anita Marks. They join returning panelists Adam Schein, Amy Trask and Brandon Tierney to form CBS Sports Network’s new Sunday pregame show team.
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NBA TV announced plans to carry up to 11 WNBA Playoff games starting Aug. 22 with a Conference Semifinal doubleheader pitting Chicago/Atlanta at 7:30p. NBA TV will continue with live playoff game coverage through the Conference Semifinals and Conference Finals.
Mediacom Communications Corporation and The Walt Disney Company locked in a distribution agreement to deliver Disney’s lineup of sports, news and entertainment content to Mediacom customers across televisions, computers, smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles and connected devices. As part of the new multi-year deal, Mediacom will introduce several new services, including SEC Network, ESPN Goal Line and ESPN Buzzer Beater.
Chris Schenkel, the longtime voice of a many top events at ABC Sports, will be inducted posthumously into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame, the organization announced. The ceremony will be held Tuesday, Dec. 16, in New York.
America’s most storied collegiate rivals return to Madison Square Garden for their second annual “Rivalry on Ice” hockey game on January 10, 2015. The game will air live nationally on NBC Sports Network at 8:00pm. The “Rivalry on Ice” series is part of a multi-year agreement with Leverage Agency, the creator and owner of “Rivalry on Ice,” who will handle full 360 marketing and promotion for the event.
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Eleven NFL players will join six-time Grammy Award-winner and multi-platinum recording artist Carrie Underwood for her performance of Waiting All Day for Sunday Night, the opening theme for Sunday Night Football on NBC. Names will include the like of Payton and Eli Manning, Russell Wilson, Colin Kaepernick and Philip Rivers.
HUGO BOSS Parfums launched its Success Beyond the Game NFL campaign, bringing together men who have achieved success beyond their discipline with the brand’s scents for men: BOSS Bottled, Night. and HUGO Man. The campaign was designed to showcase the brand’s values of “success, style and confidence,” and features the New York Giant’s Victor Cruz, Denver Bronco’s DeMarcus Ware and Green Bay Packer’s Clay Matthews III.
The National Football League announced that NFL Now has launched on Apple TV, offering fans free access to the NFL’s massive video content library through the Apple TV platform. NFL Now on Apple TV provides access to game highlights, original content from NFL Media and 32 NFL clubs, live press conferences, and shows and video from the NFL Films vault.
Fanatics, Inc. named Matt Madrigal as the company’s Chief Technology and Product Office where he will play a key role in shaping technology and mobile strategy, while expanding the company’s product development and data capabilities to support the next generation of growth for the company. Madrigal was most recently SVP of eCommerce & Marketing for Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
ESPN production executive Stephanie Druley has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Production College Networks, overseeing all creative and editorial content, studio and remote events, and all talent and production personnel for both the recently launched SEC Network and Longhorn Network.
Pittsburgh Steelers/Philadelphia Eagles at 7:30p on NFL Network.
ON THIS DAY in 2004: Michael Phelps wins his 8th medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
In The Know: There are only two athletes who have played in a Little League World Series, a College World Series and the MLB World Series. Name one of the two. (Email [email protected] with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. Unofficial rules: Only the second four correct answers from each time zone will be mentioned; and once you’ve been mentioned in any of the Cynopsis editions, you can’t be mentioned again that calendar week.)
Answer to Our Last Sports Trivia Question: What actor played the role of Bobby Jones in the 2004 film, “Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius? Answer: Jim Caviezel. Kudos: Marc Wollis-NBC Sports Group/NY; Will Allmendinger-Zoom Media/Chicago; Matt Sautter-OpenTV/Golden; Lawrence Fan-San Jose State University/San Jose; Tom Moore-Kalt Productions/LA; David Westberg-SAG-AFTRA Los Angeles local/LA.
Later — Chris
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