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MUMBAI: Global fan engagement and data platform Stepathlon, today announced that it has added four senior professionals to its advisory board.

Stepathlon is a unique initiative in fan/customer engagement with clients including Manchester City, CVC owned IPL Team Gujarat Titans, AFL Team Richmond FC, World Tennis League and a growing global blue-chip client base. Their proprietary fan engagement and data platform focuses on active participation and engagement to deliver a powerful turnkey fan and consumer engagement platform for rightsholders and brands.

Oct 22, 2018 15:10
MUMBAI: Three-time Olympic Gold medallist in swimming, Stephanie Rice has been named as one of the presenters for the VIVO Pro Kabaddi League 2018 by Star Sports. The Australian will join an illustrious expert panel featuring Suhail Chandok and Radhakrishnan Sreenivasan.
Oct 20, 2018 17:10
MUNICH: Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich has become the first sports organisation in the world to launch an optimised website service explicitly for poor Internet connections: lite.fcbayern.com will deliver all the news about the German record champions and will focus on fast, functional delivery of content instead of its graphical representation.
Oct 12, 2018 14:10
JOHANNESBURG: Cricket South Africa (CSA) announced Thursday the six selected teams and venues for the new T20 League this year. Earlier it was reported that the board had hired Nielsen Sport, the globally renowned market research firm to conduct an independent assessment over the cities in terms of certain parameters and advise the CSA on the same.
Oct 11, 2018 16:10
PANJIM: Forca Goa Foundation, an NGO that works through football for grassroots development, has kicked off a league involving 16 of the centres it runs in the coastal state. The "Inter-Center League", which is supported by Indian Super League franchise FC Goa, will see weekly matches being played between the centers in three zones - north, central and south.
Oct 11, 2018 13:10
DUBAI: The International Cricket Council will be conducting a meeting in Singapore on 20 October to figure out ways which will result in making it harder for T20 and T10 leagues around the world to get approval, a top ICC official has said.
Oct 08, 2018 19:10
NEW DELHI: The Premier Badminton League (PBL) held its auction on Monday for Season 4 of the competition. The event was of significance due to the addition of the Pune 7 Aces franchise, making for a nine-team league. As a result, all nine teams had to revamp their squads.
Oct 06, 2018 16:10
MUMBAI: The Commercial Vehicles Business Unit (CVBU) of Tata Motors Saturday announced a three-year partnership with the Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) as associate sponsor, starting this season. Concurrently, the Indian auto major will extend their commercial support to Pro Kabaddi franchisee UP Yoddha as principal sponsor for the second consecutive year. 
Oct 05, 2018 14:10
LAHORE: Former Australian captain Steve Smith and South Africa’s retired cricketer AB de Villiers headline the 14-member Platinum category of players for the 2019 Pakistan Super League (PSL) player draft. The duo will participate in the competition for the first time in their playing careers.
Oct 03, 2018 12:10
MUMBAI: Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty and her industrialist husband, Raj Kundra will be back with the third season of the Match Indian Poker League (Match IPL). The former owners of Indian Premier League side, Rajasthan Royals had launched the tournament under their umbrella corporation Viaan Industries Ltd. which is a gaming, entertainment and licensing company.
Sep 29, 2018 16:09
MUMBAI: Football Sports Development Ltd, the joint venture between Reliance and Star India that owns and operates the Hero Indian Super League, has a bonanza lined up for each of the ten franchises that make up the ISL from the central revenue pool this season. And in a first for the country's most high profile football league, a significant percentage of those revenues will come from media rights.