Team headquarters connected, multiple “war room” live video feeds provided for inside look at selection process
Glowpoint, Inc. (OTCBB:GLOW), a leading provider of advanced video communications solutions, today announced it will be providing video conferencing managed services to enable live, interactive broadcasts of team picks on national television for the 2009 NBA basketball draft. Draft [...]

Basketball Legend Takes Role in Expanding Wish-Granting Efforts
Michael Jordan, regarded as the greatest basketball player of all time and a successful business leader, now has a new title announced Saturday – Chief Wish Ambassador for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Jordan was formally introduced in his new role by David Williams, Make-A-Wish Foundation of America president [...]

NIKE, Inc. (NYSE:NKE) and 10-time NBA All-Star Kobe Bryant unveiled the Nike Zoom Kobe IV today, its lightest basketball shoe ever, with a new low cut design weighing in at a mere 11.6 ounces.
The game of basketball is evolving to a quicker pace, and as basketball’s agent of change Kobe is leading the charge [...]

New Site Serves Southern California Sports Lovers of All Ages
All Sports Trader has just launched its website www.allsportstrader.com, becoming the first online platform in Southern California for buying and selling sports equipment and sharing local sports information. As a gathering place for sports lovers from 8 to 80, Founder & CEO Pat Bockenstette believes [...]

Collaboration Combines Partners’ Complementary Skill Sets to Continue Growth of Chinese Sport beyond 2008 Olympic Games
Helios Partners is pleased to announce its appointment by Infront Sports & Media as its exclusive marketing and consulting partner in China.
The two companies have agreed to form this strategic partnership, which will bring together the experience and [...]

Revolutionary Nike Performance Innovation for Beijing to Extend its Already Dominant Lead in China
Nike and Kobe Bryant today launched the Nike Hyperdunk, Nike’s (NYSE:NKE) lightest and strongest basketball shoe ever and one of the many superior, lightweight performance product innovations the company unveiled to support athletes from over 100 countries who will compete for gold [...]

Trio of New Tools Allows Mobile Users to Follow Their Favorite Teams: Mobile Widget, Mobile Web Site, and Special Edition of Yahoo! oneSearch; Jaguar North America on Board for Mobile Advertising Campaign
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Today Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) announced a men’s college basketball mobile offering to help fans follow their favorite team from the first tip-off [...]

FilmRoom Video Portal Drives Personalized Access of Team Highlights
Gotuit, the Video Metadata company, today announced that Sports Illustrated has again selected Gotuit to power its SI FilmRoom™, with the latest version dedicated to the 2008 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.
SI Men’s NCAA Tournament FilmRoom sponsored by RadioShack and launched today, allows fans to personalize [...]