Campus Clips: NeuLion Partners with Mississippi State; ACC Updates Mobile App for Baseball Season

NeuLion, the technology service provider for delivering live and on-demand content to Internet-enabled devices, Mississippi State University Athletics, and Bulldog Sports Properties announced a multi-year partnership extension with enhanced digital initiatives for HD video, live highlight editing and mobile applications. Partnering with NeuLion since 2007, Mississippi State Athletics has experienced significant growth in overall platform traffic and subscription revenues as live video, news, stats, schedules, updates and more have become increasingly more accessible. Specifically, HailStateTV subscription revenue has increased 27% year-over-year and the athletics mobile and tablet apps have had over 33,000 downloads to date…

…The official ACC Sports App for iPhone and Android has been upgraded for the current ACC baseball season, it was announced today by Raycom Sports. The ACC Sports App, launched by Raycom Sports and powered by Silver Chalice, has been enhanced with a specific baseball section, complete with scores, schedules, standings and rosters. The ACC Sports App download is free. The 2010-11 ACC Sports App ended the season as a Top 5 paid sports application in iTunes and averaged a 4-star consumer rating…

…On Monday, in conjuction with NCAA Division III Week, the New York University Department of Athletics, Intramurals and Recreation released a video in support of the “It Gets Better Project,” a movement begun to remind young lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people that despite bullying, they are not alone and their lives will get better. Dan Savage and Terry Miller started the “It Gets Better Project” in September 2010 in response to a number of suicides by students who were bullied in school because they either identified as or were perceived as LGBT…

…The football season-opening battle between Kentucky and Louisville has been picked up for live national telecast on ESPN. The game will be played Sunday, Sept. 2, at 3:30 p.m. in Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium…

…The Sun Belt Conference announced that Georgia State University has accepted an invitation to join the league on July 1, 2013 and will begin conference competition for the 2013-14 academic year.