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Amazon Web Services inks deal with the PGA Tour, its latest cloud computing sports deal

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services continues to expand its reach into the sports world. Amazon’s other sports-related deals include streaming the NFL’s Thursday Night Football and its All or Nothing sports documentaries that stream on Prime Video. East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Ga. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota).

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Amazon bets big on sports streaming in bid to boost Prime memberships, advertising revenue

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(Amazon Photo / Cooper Neill) When Charlie Neiman arrived at Amazon in 2016, the company had never streamed a live event, let alone live sports. Fast forward eight years later, and Amazon has emerged as a leader in the burgeoning sports streaming world. Live sports remains one of the most-watched telecasts. million viewers.

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Sport analytics leverage AI and ML to improve the game

CIO Business Intelligence

Nearly 10 years ago, Bill James, a pioneer in sports analytics methodology, said if there’s one thing he wished more people understood about sabermetrics, pertaining to baseball, it’s that the data is not the point. The point is to use the data like a razor to cut through false convictions to find the truth.

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Seattle Seahawks’ deep dive into analytics starts with a ‘data lake’ built by Amazon Web Services

GeekWire

It’s trendy these days to turn to sports data analytics for a deep dive into how a team is set up to compete and what metrics make the most sense for how players perform in a game. For the Seattle Seahawks, that dive starts with a “data lake” built with Amazon Web Services. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota).

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CEOs of Amazon Web Services and Redapt join Seattle Sounders FC ownership group

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Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky (left) and his wife Laura Selipsky. Seattle Sounders FC announced Wednesday that the families of Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky and Redapt CEO Rick Cantu are now owners.

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Behind release of NFL’s new schedule, Amazon Web Services helped sort endless matchup options

GeekWire

The NFL leverages its partnership with Amazon Web Services to sort through some of the endless scenarios that come into play when figuring out how to match 32 teams across 17 games during an 18-week period, all while optimizing for fairness, travel, and availability of particular venues.

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NFL reveals new ‘Expected Rush Yards’ stat, with help from Amazon Web Services

GeekWire

Football fans wondering whether the next handoff to a running back could be another Beast Quake have another stat to track thanks to Next Gen Stats , the platform powered by Amazon Web Services.