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Maven today announced a shift from legal meeting intelligence to AI-powered matter intelligence, with plans to connect matter documents, meeting records, and legal research in one platform. Client access is planned to begin in early 2027.

He may be the game’s best hitter and the best pitcher: Shohei Ohtani isn’t the new Babe Ruth; he’s something better than that. Senior Writer Tom Verducci takes a deep look at Ohtani’s impact on the game and his two-way excellence dismantling baseball’s rules of specialization. The October issue, with two covers featuring Ohtani, is available online today and on shelves on September 23. Also in this issue, off-snow summer training for the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, Chris Mannix’s candid conversation with Paul Pierce, the elemental change in the way football is played from youth leagues to the NFL, and a profile by Jon Wertheim on the guy who took down Conor McGregor twice this year.

As the industry shifts to a new era of sports betting proliferation, Sports Illustrated is setting the standard on innovation and transparency. Today, the award-winning media brand announced a partnership with SharpRank to rate and rank professional sports gamblers with respect to the industry standard.

Maven (OTC: MVEN) today reported that its sports media vertical, Sports Illustrated Media Group is now the fastest growing sports property in the United States according to Comscore, and ranks #6 across sports media with more than 42 million monthly users. The vertical has grown nearly 300% in the last year.

Dak is back – but there’s much more to the story of what he’s gone through to make it here. After a year that included his brother’s suicide and a gruesome leg injury that made it easy to wonder if he’d ever play again, Greg Bishop gives us an insider look at how Dak Prescott has dealt with his pain. The 2021 Football Preview is available online today and on newsstands on Aug. 26, additional features included below.

By the end of this year, sports wagering will be legal in more than half the country, and the boom means more than just big business for sportsbook companies. The Gambling Issue of Sports Illustrated, available online and newsstands Aug. 12, examines the rapidly changing and fascinating landscape of mainstream gambling with pieces by senior writers Jon Wertheim, Chris Mannix, and Alex Prewitt. Also inside the issue, Nick Hornby on what the doomed Super League plan says about the state of soccer in England and a history lesson on evolving NFL attitudes towards gambling.

The Olympics are less than two weeks away, and America’s most decorated gymnast is heading to Tokyo more focused, motivated, and better than ever. Before what is likely her final Olympics, Simone Biles sat down with senior writer Stephanie Apstein to reflect on why she competes, who she’s competing for and what life after gymnastics looks like. The Sports Illustrated Olympic Preview issue, online today and on newsstands now, also includes Pat Forde’s profile of Michael Phelps heir Caeleb Dressel, Michael Rosenberg’s look at top sprinter Noah Lyles and how 2020 changed him and the country he represents, and more.

Maven (OTC: MVEN), a modern media company operating and powering premium media brands such as Sports Illustrated and TheStreet, today announced its support of Unified ID 2.0, a collaborative and soon-to-be open-source framework for cookieless media to benefit their portfolio of digital publishers. At the forefront of finding solutions, Maven will prioritize the use of Unified ID 2.0 to preserve the free flow of content in exchange for relevant advertising.

Sports Illustrated and Morning Read, an authoritative voice in golf media, announced an editorial partnership today, creating the ultimate online destination for golf enthusiasts. The two publications combine the editorial talent of the respective media brands in a new destination, available to golf fans alike at SI.com/golf.

In Sports Illustrated’s July issue, Rohan Nadkarni details how FaZe Clan, the gaming, streaming, merchandising, content-creating monster, grew a following and brand reach well beyond the world of esports. The issue, online today and on newsstands June 17, also includes Alex Prewitt on the most expensive baseball card ever sold, Tom Verducci on the mental and emotional toll of baseball’s gig economy, Grant Wahl on the collision of soccer, sports media and authoritarian politics in Azerbaijan, and Mark Bechtel on the 100th anniversary of the Jack Dempsey-Georges Carpentier fight – the first live radio broadcast of a sporting event.

Maven (OTC: MVEN), a modern media company operating and powering premium publishers, today announced that it has acquired The Spun, a fast-growing digital and social sports brand that brings what’s trending in the sports world to avid and loyal consumers. The addition of TheSpun.com to Maven’s lineup of sports properties, anchored by Sports Illustrated, operated under a license from Authentic Brands Group (ABG), boosts Maven’s Sports vertical readership to more than 50 million per month, according to Google Analytics.