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Vuz and Myco partner to monetise sports and entertainment content in MENA
Myco and VUZ will collaborate to introduce revenue streams, broaden the distribution of content, and transform fans from passive viewers into active participants in the evolving entertainment economy. Vuz, the immersive video platform, has entered into a strategic partnership with Myco, a Web3 digital streaming service, in a move that aims to reshape the sports […]

Myco and VUZ will collaborate to introduce revenue streams, broaden the distribution of content, and transform fans from passive viewers into active participants in the evolving entertainment economy.
Vuz, the immersive video platform, has entered into a strategic partnership with Myco, a Web3 digital streaming service, in a move that aims to reshape the sports and entertainment landscape across the MENA region and beyond.
The collaboration marks the beginning of a long-term alliance aimed at redefining how premium content is delivered, experienced and monetised. The partnership will debut with the Pakistan Super League (PSL), combining Myco’s exclusive streaming rights for the league in the MENA region with Vuz’s cutting-edge immersive video technology to elevate fan engagement.
By integrating Myco’s “Watch & Earn” model—which rewards users for their viewing activity—with Vuz’s immersive virtual experiences, the two platforms promise to deliver a dynamic, interactive way of watching sports. The result is a more rewarding and deeply engaging experience that pushes the boundaries of traditional streaming.
Beyond enhancing viewer enjoyment, the partnership is also focused on creating new monetisation channels, expanding the reach of digital content, and empowering audiences to become active participants in the entertainment economy. Both companies are positioning themselves at the forefront of a digital revolution that aims to turn spectators into stakeholders, reshaping how entertainment is consumed and valued in the region.
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Southern Illinois Salukis – Official Athletics Website
Southern Illinois Volleyball finalized its 2025 coaching staff with the addition of Riley Rabedeaux as a graduate assistant, the program announced Tuesday. Rabedeaux joins the Salukis after a stint at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas, where she played her junior and senior seasons as an outside hitter. She led the Mustangs in points and […]

Southern Illinois Volleyball finalized its 2025 coaching staff with the addition of Riley Rabedeaux as a graduate assistant, the program announced Tuesday.
Rabedeaux joins the Salukis after a stint at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas, where she played her junior and senior seasons as an outside hitter. She led the Mustangs in points and kills both seasons, earning herself an All-Lone Star Conference honorable mention in 2024.
Her freshman and sophomore seasons were spent at Adams State University in Alamosa, Colo. She compiled 372 kills during her time and earned All-Academic team honors in both seasons.
A native of Poulsbo, Wash., Rabedeaux attended North Kitsap High School, where she was a three-time letter winner. She starred, earning a first-team All-Conference nod in each season including an All-State honorable mention in 2021. She played with Dakine Volleyball Club in Tacoma and also played tennis and basketball.
Her brothers Beau and Cole Rabedeaux also competed in collegiate athletics. Her brother Beau made 64 appearances (third-most in program history) as a pitcher for the University of Jamestown Jimmies baseball team (NAIA) from 2014-18. Cole played basketball for the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire Blugolds basketball team from 2017-20, setting school records for three-point shots made and attempted during a single season.
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City of Salem Recreation Sand Volleyball & Softball Scores
In Recreation Sand Volleyball last night at Bryan Park, Volleyholics beat Set It & Forget It (21-14, 21-10), Sand Fleas defeated Beach Bouncers (21-14, 21-15) and in three sets it was The Chewblockas beating the Beach Bouncers 914-21, 21-12, 16-14). In Men’s Softball, Eliminators dominated the Pour House 23-9, Iuka State Bank beat the Pour […]

In Recreation Sand Volleyball last night at Bryan Park, Volleyholics beat Set It & Forget It (21-14, 21-10), Sand Fleas defeated Beach Bouncers (21-14, 21-15) and in three sets it was The Chewblockas beating the Beach Bouncers 914-21, 21-12, 16-14).
In Men’s Softball, Eliminators dominated the Pour House 23-9, Iuka State Bank beat the Pour House 22-2 and Eliminators then beat Bit Brokers 24-8.
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Student table tennis champ heads to World University Games
Before the opening ceremonies of the World University Games, table tennis player Gina Fu ’28 needed to squeeze in extra training – and a bit of financial modeling for her summer internship. Fu, one of Canada’s top table tennis players and a statistics and economics major in the College of Arts and Sciences, is set […]

Before the opening ceremonies of the World University Games, table tennis player Gina Fu ’28 needed to squeeze in extra training – and a bit of financial modeling for her summer internship.
Fu, one of Canada’s top table tennis players and a statistics and economics major in the College of Arts and Sciences, is set to compete in the 2025 International University Sports Federation Summer World University Games. The table tennis competition kicks off July 17 in Germany. She’ll compete in women’s singles, women’s doubles and women’s teams.
Recognized by the International Olympic Committee, the Summer World University Games bring together student-athletes from around the world to compete every other year. This year, athletes will compete in 18 sports, from 3×3 basketball (including 3×3 wheelchair basketball) to archery and water polo.
“It’s really cool to see how other student athletes balance academics and their sports career,” she said, “This event lets us all come together and celebrate.”
Fu began playing when she was 6 years old, tagging along with her grandparents every weekend to play table tennis at their local community center in Hong Kong. She loved the speed and competitiveness of the sport. It taught her how to handle pressure.
“It’s really fast paced,” she said. “You have so little time to make decisions.”
At 15, Fu moved to Toronto, where she attended high school and joined Canada’s national table tennis team.
She has played in multiple Pan American Championships, and in 2022 she competed against the top 30 players in the world at the Commonwealth Games in the United Kingdom.
At Cornell, she is vice president of the Table Tennis Club. She and the team practice three times a week in Appel Commons Community Center.
The club team grew in popularity and competitiveness this year, Fu said. In April they traveled to the College Table Tennis National Championships in Rockford, Illinois, where the women’s team placed second.
As the spring semester closed, Fu knew she’d likely have the opportunity to play in the University Games, so she lined up an internship she could do remotely.
In the future she hopes to coach kids in table tennis, alongside building a career in banking. “It’s part of my identity, and it always will be,” she said.
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Columbia's Riley Weiss Signs NIL Deal With Foundation To Combat Antisemitism
The Foundation to Combat Antisemitism (FCAS) has announced it is sponsoring Riley Weiss, a Hewlett, N.Y., native and Division I basketball player at Columbia University. Through its groundbreaking NIL partnership program sponsoring Jewish NCAA athletes. Weiss, a rising junior who plays guard for the Columbia Lions, will be one of six student-athletes signed as a “Blue Square Athlete […]


The Foundation to Combat Antisemitism (FCAS) has announced it is sponsoring Riley Weiss, a Hewlett, N.Y., native and Division I basketball player at Columbia University.
Through its groundbreaking NIL partnership program sponsoring Jewish NCAA athletes. Weiss, a rising junior who plays guard for the Columbia Lions, will be one of six student-athletes signed as a “Blue Square Athlete Ambassador.” The program will uplift Weiss and others’ unique stories and highlight how their Jewish identity has shaped both their academic and athletic careers.
“As a young athlete, representation is absolutely critical,” said Weiss. “Having grown up without significant Jewish representation in basketball, I’m proud to join the Blue Square Athlete Ambassador Program to serve as that representation for the next generation of athletes. I hope to show that we can all celebrate our unique identities while continuing to strive for new levels of success.”
At a time when Jewish representation is more important than ever, the Blue Square Athlete Ambassador Program seeks to increase the visibility of Jewish athletes at the collegiate level, promoting their unique, multifaceted identities, and advancing Jewish pride. In doing so, the initiative will promote the humanity of Jewish people and culture to dispel stereotypes, and, ultimately, encourage more Americans to become allies in the fight against Jewish hate.
The sponsorship program comes amid rapidly increasing antisemitism. According to FCAS’ proprietary research, antisemitic attitudes are now held by 25% of the population and are on the rise, especially among younger Americans across college campuses. Over the past two years, hostile protests and antisemitic vitriol have rocked campuses such as Columbia, Harvard, and UCLA, forcing a reckoning of principles at universities across the nation.
Despite these trends, nearly half of Americans are considered “unengaged” on the issue of antisemitism. FCAS’ data shows they do not recognize Jewish hate in the same way they do other forms of hate — and therefore do not stand up to it.
“With this groundbreaking initiative, we’re aiming to increase the profile of these dedicated Jewish student-athletes to bridge divides and begin an overdue dialogue,” said Adam Katz, President of FCAS. “By championing each athlete’s unique story, we aim to show that we have more in common than what makes us different. We look forward to seeing these athletes don the Blue Square this offseason as we work toward our shared goal of eradicating antisemitism and all forms of hate.”
This initiative is the latest addition to FCAS’ flagship #StandUpToJewishHate campaign, which seeks to build empathy and call on people around the world to wear and share the Blue Square as a symbol of standing up to Jewish hate and all hate. Since its launch in 2023, the Blue Square campaign has become a universal symbol representing this anti-hate mission and symbolizes the need to consistently stand against hate.
The Blue Square Athlete Ambassador Program was designed in partnership with Tribe NIL, Jeremy Moses, and Eitan Levine. In a new video series launching soon across FCAS channels, Blue Square Athlete Ambassadors will demonstrate how they #StandUpToJewishHate and inspire others to do the same on their college campuses and beyond.
The Foundation to Combat Antisemitism
The Foundation to Combat Antisemitism was founded in 2019 by Robert Kraft to stand up to Jewish hate and all hate. We uniquely reach unengaged non-Jewish Americans, moving them to become allies through empathy-building national mass media and social advertising. We partner and convene diverse leaders and groups to create awareness and understanding, and our Command Center monitors the digital landscape 24/7 to understand where and how hate is spreading and completes national research on this topic.
Riley Weiss
Riley Weiss is a Division I basketball player at Columbia University. From playing high school basketball in 7th grade to becoming an Ivy League Champion, Riley Weiss’s work ethic stems from her Jewish identity. While growing up and celebrating Jewish holidays, her family taught her the values of perseverance, hard work, humility, and standing up for others, which helped propel her athletic career. She credits a meeting with Sue Bird, another Jewish female basketball player, with inspiring her journey.
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USA Bobsled and Skeleton signs endorsement deal with Honda through 2030 Olympics
USA Bobsled and Skeleton has entered into a multi-year endorsement deal with American Honda, one that will give the sliding sports federation financial and technical support going into both next winter’s Milan-Cortina Olympics and the 2030 Games in the French Alps. The deal, announced Wednesday, has been in the works for some time. Honda — […]


USA Bobsled and Skeleton has entered into a multi-year endorsement deal with American Honda, one that will give the sliding sports federation financial and technical support going into both next winter’s Milan-Cortina Olympics and the 2030 Games in the French Alps.
The deal, announced Wednesday, has been in the works for some time. Honda — which becomes the official premier technology partner of the teams — will give USABS, among other things, access to its wind tunnel in Ohio for research and development purposes.
Such access is crucial when determining optimal sled positioning and other aerodynamic factors in sports where one-hundredth of a second can be the difference between winning and losing. Eventually, the partnership will evolve into sled design as well.
“Long term, they’ll be playing a role in helping us design bobsleds,” USABS CEO Aron McGuire told The Associated Press. “We’ll be looking at building four-man sleds initially. They will be providing the aerodynamic expertise and providing us insights, recommendations, into how we can best design a sled as it relates to other factors, like safety of the athletes sitting in the sled and the performance side of the design.”
The teams will also have Acura logos on their sleds for all competitions through the 2030 Games.
“In sports where sleds can reach speeds of over 90 miles per hour and the difference between first and last can be measured in fractions of a second, our Honda engineers are eager to apply their engineering skills and racing background to the USABS programs,” said Larry Geise, the executive vice president of Honda Development & Manufacturing of America.
Financial specifics were not disclosed, but the deal is one of the more significant in USABS history.
“It’s at the top of the cash partners that we’ve had,” McGuire said.
The news comes at a key time for the programs, with the next Olympics just seven months away. The U.S. has legitimate medal hopes in bobsled and skeleton going into Milan-Cortina; Kaysha Love is the reigning women’s monobob champion, women’s pilots Kaillie Humphries Armbruster and Elana Meyers Taylor are the two most decorated female drivers in Olympic history, and the American duo of Austin Florian and Mystique Ro won a gold medal in the new mixed team skeleton discipline at the world championships earlier this year.
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Open water program at swimming worlds begins after two delays
Jul 16, 2025, 06:20 AM ET Open water competition at the World Swimming Championships went off Wednesday after two postponements because of water-quality problems at Sentosa, the island area on the coast of Singapore. Florian Wellbrock of Germany won the men’s 10-kilometer race in 1 hour, 59 minutes, 55.50 seconds. Gregorio Paltrinieri of Italy was […]

Open water competition at the World Swimming Championships went off Wednesday after two postponements because of water-quality problems at Sentosa, the island area on the coast of Singapore.
Florian Wellbrock of Germany won the men’s 10-kilometer race in 1 hour, 59 minutes, 55.50 seconds. Gregorio Paltrinieri of Italy was 3.7 seconds behind in second place, and Kyle Lee of Australia was third in 2:00:10.3.
Moesha Johnson of Australia won the women’s 10-kilometer race in 2:07:51.3. Ginevra Taddeucci of Italy took silver in 2:07.55.7, with bronze for Lisa Pou of Monaco in 2:07.57.5.
Wellbrock took gold in the Tokyo Olympics in the 10-kilometer race and was the bronze medalist at 1,500 meters in the pool. This is his eighth gold in world championship events.
“It was really tough today. I think it was the warmest waters that we’ve had to race in,” Wellbrock said. “I had one year to prepare for this. We did a lot of heat training, and I think that was the key today to me taking the gold.”
Johnson was the silver medalist in this event a year ago at the Paris Olympics. She also took gold in the 2024 Doha worlds and was the bronze medalist two years ago in Fukuoka, Japan.
The open water swimming program had been initially scheduled to open Tuesday.
Event organizers said water-quality samples taken Tuesday afternoon showed “a significant improvement with levels of E. coli falling between the ranges of good and excellent” in regulations set by the governing body World Aquatics.
The Mayo Clinic says “E. coli bacteria normally live in the intestines of healthy people and animals. Most types of E. coli are harmless or cause relatively brief diarrhea.” It said a few strains can cause “severe stomach cramps, bloody diarrhea and vomiting.” Exposure is often from contaminated water that may contain human and animal waste.
The open water events in the Seine River at last year’s Paris Olympics were a constant cause of concern. The Tokyo Olympics also had problems in 2021 because of warm water in a shallow bay and related pollution issues.
Water pollution was a major problem in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, where pollution levels were often high on Copacabana Beach, the venue for distance swimming, and in Guanabara Bay, the venue for sailing.
Other open water races in Singapore are set for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Water polo competition at the worlds is underway at an indoor venue. The main event of the championships is eight days of swimming competition in the pool, which opens July 27.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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