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Associated Press
29-07-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
ALTbasketball, Inc. Launches Both the "ALTbasketball Smaller Rim Concept" to be Promoted to the NBA as and the Development of Professional League w/ Lower Rims for Women
Louisville, KY July 28, 2025 --( )-- Today, ALTbasketball, Inc. announces the origination of the 'ALTbasketball Smaller Rim Concept' for the game of basketball. This concept is identified as a reduction of rim size to lesser than the traditional 18' diameter rim for play. The 'ALTbasketball Smaller Rim Concept' is being promoted to the National Basketball Association (NBA), to support in entertainment and player/fan engagement considerations. Additionally, ALTbasketball, Inc. is announcing the development of the company's new professional, national women's basketball league, featuring the ALTbasketball Smaller Rim Concept and addi lower than the traditional 10' in height. The women's game being played on a 'lower rim' is on record as early as 2012, being requested by Geno Auriemma, the Winningest NCAA Women's basketball coach. ALTbasketball, a Delaware corporation, with operations in Louisville, KY, is led by Founder, Nick Lopez, former youth boys and girls basketball coach and trainer. ALTbasketball, Inc. is promoting the 'ALTbasketball Smaller Rim Concept' via website, social media and basketball events for the general public to review. 'ALTbasketball's national professional women's league is designed to be sustainable in itself… but actually it's only the start of the 'Growth and Sustainability Flywheel.' The league will be the driving force behind increasing the interest and demand in female youth basketball which will in turn demand significant infrastructure changes nationwide including new courts specific to the ALTbasketball women's game,' said Nick Lopez, Founder of ALTbasketball. With the announcement of ALTbasketball, the company cites it now advances to 'Phase 1,' the 'Attention Phase' where concept is to be proven viable by sourcing the crowd and verifying support through testimonials and social sharing. Once the fan demand is verified, ALTbasketball cites that sponsors will be onboarded, and the league will initiate in the next phase, identified as the 'Entertainment Phase' where players will be established. In the Entertainment Phase, ALTbasketball will facilitate try-outs in multiple states, with a model inspired by the AND 1 Mixtape Tour. ALTbasketball promotes that they will be 'scouting, elevating, supporting and developing new stars of the game.' 'ALTbasketball is reverse engineered to give the fans what they want. The focus is not foremost on the player experience, but rather the fans and their specific interest. Fortunately, the economics suggest that where there is fan interest, money will flow. And where money flows, when a league is not restricted by legacy infrastructure, or bottlenecks of status quo thinking… it may be possible to scale, and scale big,' said Nick Lopez, Founder of ALTbasketball. To learn more, Start Here at or contact [email protected] Source: ALTbasketball, Inc. Bunyasaranand, Kimie. 'Geno Auriemma wants lower rim to improve women's basketball' *ESPN* October, 23, 2012, Wilco, Daniel. 'Women's college basketball coaches with the most wins in DI history' *NCAA* April, 10, 2025, Contact Information: ALTbasketball, Inc. Nick Lopez (844) 737-1459 Contact via Email Read the full story here: ALTbasketball, Inc. Launches Both the 'ALTbasketball Smaller Rim Concept' to be Promoted to the NBA as and the Development of Professional League w/ Lower Rims for Women Press Release Distributed by
Canada News.Net
04-07-2025
- Sport
- Canada News.Net
Mailbag: What cities would you expand NFL to
byDallas Cowboys Mailbag,Nick Eatman&Patrik Walker (Editor's Note: Time to check the mail! The staff writers answer your questions here in 'Mailbag' presented by Miller Lite.) Let's have a little fun on this holiday. If you were commissioner Roger Goodell and you were looking to expand the NFL, what cities do you believe would be the best fits for future franchises and why? This has been a topic of conversation within my family for many years, specifically after the relocation of the Rams and Chargers to Los Angeles. Nick Lopez/Temple, TX Nick: Well, that is a fun question. Wasn't expecting that one today. I honestly, can't see I've thought about this one too much because I obviously don't know all of the things that go into place with other cities, the fan support, stadium projects, etc. My first thought is to look at the cities that recently lost teams. There just seems like there would be room for an NFL team in St. Louis. I know they've had the Cardinals for a long time and then the Rams for about 20 years or so. With the right situation, St. Louis would always be fun, and the same goes for San Diego. Maybe it's just because it's a great place to visit, but I don't know all the details in their support for a team. Other than that, I can't really think of other places in the US that would need a team. Maybe Orlando, but does Florida really need four teams? That means the most logical answer would probably be outside of the country, perhaps in Toronto or maybe London? That would be a different ballgame if the game expanded over the pond. Patrik: Well look at Nick Lopez breaking out one of the most fun-filled questions I've seen in a mailbag. I could really delve into this one with some intriguing options, indeed. Having been a football fan all of my life, I've seen expansions and relocations, some of the latter that have raised an eyebrow at the time even if they made historical and financial sense to the league. The one that stands out recently is an obvious one: St. Louis losing the Rams to Los Angeles in what became a court battle after the fact. I'd start there with an expansion team, because I firmly believe St. Louis has proven itself worthy and capable of housing an NFL team, lest we forget how rabid they were during The Greatest Show on Turf era, and how heartbroken they were when the team up and left for sunny California. But if you're going to do one expansion, you have to do two, so let me drop a team right into the heart of New Mexico, and for a couple reasons. I can't determine why you have a stretch of teams in Louisiana, Texas, Arizona and California, but nothing in New Mexico. I could also make a case for Oklahoma, though that feels much more like college football country that's just fine with splitting fandom between the Cowboys, the Chiefs and the Broncos whereas New Mexico might legitimately go wild for an NFL franchise to challenge their neighbors to the east and west for the rights to claim fans.
Technical.ly
28-04-2025
- Business
- Technical.ly
AI is driving the fourth industrial revolution — and Philly companies are helping lead the way
AI is no longer a buzzword — it's one of the technologies powering a new industrial revolution, experts agreed at a recent conference in Philadelphia. Industry 4.0, the sweeping digitization of how goods are designed, used and maintained, is being driven by new technology, changes in workforce demographics, reindustrialization, regulation enforcement and a push towards sustainability, said Nick Lopez, principal at Deloitte, said at Phorum 2025. From life sciences to advanced manufacturing, emerging technologies are reshaping entire industries, panelists said at the event last week. 'AI, [Internet of Things], 3D geospatial data, the list goes on and these technologies are accelerating very quickly,' Lopez said. 'There's huge potential to improve efficiency and productivity across industries, which will have a positive impact on all of our lives.' More than just efficiency, Industry 4.0 is about reimagining what's possible when technology augments human expertise, whether that's catching errors before they happen, building smarter cities or accelerating life-saving medical breakthroughs This fourth wave of industrial progress builds on previous revolutions — mechanization, electrification and computerization — by adding a new digital layer. AI now joins forces with technologies like the Internet of Things and digital twins, virtual models of real-world systems that can be used to simulate and improve operations in real time. More AI pharma coming soon Right now, AI is good at generating content and analyzing data, but a 'neuroscience approach' to AI is what's coming, said Denise Holt, cofounder of the SpatialWeb Foundation. 'AI that can actually mimic biological intelligence and model predictions for the future,' she said. 'To be able to have an understanding of the world and operate with knowledge of a digital representation of visible things.' One version of this is active inference AI, which takes in sensory data, collects feedback and updates its understanding of its surroundings, she said. Another example is spatial web protocol, which would be a digital representation of physical things. Similar work is happening in the life sciences industry with knowledge graphs, which collect information about what happens in manufacturing and can then be used to make predictions. While pharma companies face tight regulations, momentum is building, said Vishal Prasad, CTO at GSK. 'People are adopting it,' he said. 'With an LLM engine and basically a knowledge graph behind it that is really allowing them to make very good decisions in a very short period of time with very little effort.' AI infrastructure analysis to plan construction Companies are investing in tools that don't just process data, but adapt and learn from it. Philadelphia-based companies are among those pushing the frontier. Patrick Cozzi, chief platform officer at Bentley Systems and founder of Cesium, described how Cesium worked with Epic Games to create 3D tiles for real-time digital modeling. The tech started in gaming, but now powers everything from urban planning to national defense. Cozzi explained how drones, GPS sensors and dash cams are being deployed to detect infrastructure issues like broken towers and cracked roadways. AI is even helping plan developments more intelligently — estimating parking needs, for instance, before a single shovel hits dirt. The next hurdle: data security Still, security and data ownership are looming concerns for developers, especially in regulated industries like healthcare. 'The protocol of the spatial web, it has security baked in,' Holt said. 'Whereas right now, we're trying to use all these emerging technologies in the most unsecured environment, the World Wide Web.' In this context, the security permissions would have set expirations, she added. Plus, there is so much data out there and so much more data that will be coming in, companies have to think about how they're keeping up with it and its security, Lopez said. 'We're seeing more of this in terms of being able to analyze what's on your servers, what's in your cloud, understanding what's important,' Lopez said. 'Where it needs to be stored, in terms of security policies. Sarah Huffman is a 2022-2024 corps member for Report for America, an initiative of The Groundtruth Project that pairs young journalists with local newsrooms. This position is supported by the Lenfest Institute for Journalism.
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Yahoo
Man who walked away from San Diego County corrections program captured
(FOX 5/KUSI) — A four-day search for a man who walked away from a corrections program in San Diego County ended after he was captured in central San Diego. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said Nick Lopez was detained at the Middletown San Diego trolley station on Tuesday around 12:30 p.m. US-born Californian warned to leave country immediately by DHS The CDCR said he will be taken to a prison and his case will be sent to the San Diego County District Attorney's Office for officials to consider filing charges related to the escape. Lopez allegedly removed his GPS device and walked away from a Male Community Reentry Program (MCRP) in San Diego County on Friday, April 18. CDCR received Lopez from the county in September 2023 to serve a 5-year sentence and he had been housed at the MCRP since early March of this year. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
