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Dick’s Sporting Goods buys app to boost youth sport strategy

December 2, 2016

Sports merchandise retailer Dick's Sporting Goods is buying GameChanger Media, which makes an app offering data-based coaching information, instant game recaps and live play-by-play functionality.

The acquisition is part of the retailer's strategy to boost its Team Sport HQ digital sports offering strategy, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

"GameChanger will allow us to provide the baseball and softball communities better tools and in-game information for coaches, players and fans alike," said Edward Stack, chairman and CEO of Dick's, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.