Joe Lemire

1 week ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Joe Lemire

Megastar rapper Travis Scott donned a pair of the new Oakley Meta AI glasses and performed a couple songs for a raucous end to a Fanatics Fest panel in which he spoke with Tom Brady, Michael Rubin and Oakley Global President Caio Amato about partnerships. The unannounced Friday performance was the public debut of the new product — officially called the Oakley Meta HSTN (pronounced HOW-stuhn) — which is capable of capturing Ultra HD point-of-view video while offering Meta AI.

1 week ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Joe Lemire

LeagueApps, maker of a popular youth sports management software, has acquired soccer competition platform Mod11, which is the provider of choice for MLS Next, the USL and Elite Academy League. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. LeagueApps raised funding from Accel-KKR and Arctos last fall and previously bought facility management company RecTimes last month.

1 week ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Joe Lemire

Young alumni are increasingly opting for premium experiences at a higher rate than their older peers, according to a new white paper from Elevate analyzing college sports fan behaviors and preferences. The national report draws on data from 250 million consumers in its new data system, EPIC (Elevate Performance and Insights Cloud), and from a nationwide survey of 6,331 fans conducted in collaboration with The Harris Poll.

1 week ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Joe Lemire

Born from cerebral palsy research out of biomedical engineer Silvia Blemker’s lab at the University of Virginia, Springbok Analytics uses artificial intelligence to convert 2D MRI scans into 3D digital twins for muscle analysis. Its mission remains threefold — human performance, healthy aging and life sciences — with the sporting domain growing rapidly.

1 week ago | sportsbusinessjournal.com | Joe Lemire

You can’t have a discussion about sports technology today without including athletes in that conversation. Their partnerships, investments and endorsements help fuel the space – they have emerged as major stakeholders in the sports tech ecosystem. The Athlete’s Voice series highlights the athletes leading the way and the projects and products they’re putting their influence behind.