Rob Schaefer

The Charlotte Sports Foundation, which operates the Duke’s Mayo Bowl, Jumpman Invitational and Ally Tipoff in the Queen City, will make its entry into tennis this weekend with the Charlotte Invitational, a singles exhibition at the Spectrum Center featuring world No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz and American stars Frances Tiafoe, Madison Keys and Sloane Stephens.

Andy Roddick’s “Served” podcast has partnered with Vox Media to handle the popular tennis show’s sales, marketing and distribution duties.

This year marks the third edition of the annual Sports Business Awards: Tech. It’s Sports Business Journal’s biggest effort yet to honor the most significant sports technology advancements of the calendar year.

This year marks the third edition of the annual Sports Business Awards: Tech. It’s Sports Business Journal’s biggest effort yet to honor the most significant sports technology advancements of the calendar year.

The new digital banking solution, called Teamworks Wallet, launched in beta in September and is expected to release widely in 2025. Teamworks bills Wallet as an athlete-focused financial hub for banking services and compliance reporting for NIL earnings.

The United Pickleball Association puts on the Lapiplasty Pickleball World Championships at the Brookhaven Country Club in Dallas this week and expects 3,600 players -- up from 3,400 last year -- and 25-30% growth in the number of spectators.

The USTA will execute its first formal deployment of electronic line-calling technology provided by PlayReplay at the USTA Junior National Indoor Championships in late November, SBJ's Rob Schaefer reports . Singles and doubles players competing in Boys’ and Girls’ 16s and 12s tournaments played between November 29 and December 2 – and across four different facilities – will have access to PlayReplay’s ELC system for challenges. Players call their own lines at this level of competition and most matches don’t have a chair umpire, so the challenge process will be player-initiated and immediate, according to the USTA. Upon challenging, players proceed to a courtside touchscreen kiosk, where ball-tracking data and a ruling on the previous shot will be displayed. The entire process is said to take approximately 20 seconds.

Youth Inc., the youth sports-focused media company and commerce platform formed by Fox Sports color commentator and former NFL TE Greg Olsen, will today announce the launch of season two of the Youth Inc. Podcast along with two new presenting sponsors for the show.

The NBA has unveiled several new enhancements to its flagship app, including AI features.

Rich Kleiman will spend this weekend bouncing between Major League Pickleball’s first event in New York City and activations staged around the Big Apple by the Brooklyn Aces, the MLP Challenger-level team he and Kevin Durant’s Thirty Five Ventures (35V) purchased in 2022.