Sports

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Fieldhouse Sports Hall / MoDusArchitects (ArchDaily)

Completed in 2022 in Laghetti, Italy. Images by Gustav Willeit. With the Fieldhouse project, architecture office MoDusArchitects www.modusarchitects.com ...

The association is rooted in the local culture of South Tyrol and once constituted the former voluntary army. Thanks to a system that covers 50% of its energy consumption with renewable sources, the new building is CasaClima A certified. The two-story structure, one partially underground and one above ground with an adjoining large terrace, is made of reinforced-exposed concrete cast in situ. In section, Fieldhouse mediates the topography with two levels that connect up the various programs and vista points. With its low-lying body that transforms as it moves laterally along the site, it acts as a viewing platform for sporting events and an outdoor venue for social occasions. Located in the small town of

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Apple TV+ Is Looking Into Streaming More Live Sports (Forbes)

Apple TV+ could be making a bid to live stream Pac-12 sports replacing ESPN & Fox. Last month Apple began streaming MLS games and next month Apple will ...

The present media rights of the ACC will expire in 2035. [USA Today](https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2022/08/25/college-media-rights-what-has-happened-and-whats-next/50640697/), “The rule of thumb is that football drove 80-85% of the rights. Here is the status of current and upcoming media rights agreements. The new agreement runs through the 2031 school year. The deal kicks-in with the 2024 football season. In December 2020, ESPN struck a ten-year agreement with the Southeastern Conference. Over the next seven seasons, Fox, CBS and NBC will collectively be paying A reason for the tepid response has been the decision of football (and basketball) powerhouses UCLA and the University of Southern California to leave the Pac-12 for the Big-10 beginning in August 2024. [reported](https://nypost.com/2023/02/21/apple-emerges-as-potential-landing-spot-for-pac-12-football/) Apple TV+ is interested in acquiring the media rights to Pac-12 sporting events. Currently, the cost for Pac-12 sports has with ESPN and Fox is $250 million annually over 12 years. Additionally, it was reported that Apple TV+ also bid on the rights to NFL’s Sunday Ticket. The current rights agreement expires in 2023-24.

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The New Era of Backlash in Sports and Politics (The Nation)

Trump opened up the world of sports to the hard right.

/* post_comment_list_loader */ */ /* Instead of the expectation of peace, we need to gird ourselves for the battles to come. It will be instead a carnival of reaction, with the political backs of athletes broken. The platform is now much stronger thanks to the athletes of 2012–20. Hartmann believes that the level of right/left polarization in sports is so intense that it could reach a tipping point where the battle will be halted not by players but fans demanding a return to sports as pure entertainment and escapism. Kyrie Irving became a cause célèbre among white nationalists for promoting an unwatchable anti-Semitic film, which rocketed to the top of Amazon’s charts. Sports would now be a contested space, and battle would be joined. Conservatives started to attack and mobilize against the ways in which the sports world had been pushing for collective change. The players took this political landscape and turned it on its head, and this was too much for Donald Trump. For them, sports had certainly always been a place for politics: their own politics.

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Country sports clubs embrace live streaming as games move from ... (ABC Local)

Male cricket players mid-game on an oval. Sam Millett brings up his half century in a Geraldton Cricket Association game. (Supplied: Jayden Pinto).

"The ability to watch their actual technique and how they carried themselves through the game gives an idea of the character and discipline of the player as well as their level of technique and skill that they've generated," he said. "Having the stream there, and the ability to be able to watch the games of players gives them a lot more facility to be able to see the scope of how they play day in, day out." "People wouldn't go to the local footy or the local basketball because they can sit at home and watch it on their laptop or their iPad and so as a result, it may have an effect on club finances with the canteen and gate takings," he said.

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