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• Minnesota stays in the game with Hudl Pro ESPN

  ESPN.com’s Adam Rittenberg dissects how the Minnesota Golden Gophers use Hudl Pro to enhance the team’s film study.

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• Jets’ New Video System: A Home Page for Football New York Times

  After the Nebraska football program installed a new video system last season, one coach said it saved his marriage. That was beyond what David Graff, one of its developers, expected. The program, called Hudl Pro, was conceived a couple of years ago by three Nebraska students whose obsessions were technology and Cornhuskers football.

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These companies and publications have featured Hudl and Agile Sports

• Online Off-Season ESPN

  ESPN columnist Eddie Matz takes a look at Hudl Pro and highlights why, in the internet age, it’s silly that players still carry around fifteen-pound playbooks and stacks of DVDs.

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• The ‘Facebook for Football’ Grows New York Times

  Hudl was started by three Nebraska students who shared twin loves of Cornhuskers football and technology, and who were backed by investors, including the former Microsoft honcho and current head of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Jeff Raikes.

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• Hudl Pro Featured on ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown ESPN

  ESPN’s Chris Mortensen highlights Hudl Pro’s impact on the New York Jets organization and on Brett Favre’s ability to quickly learn the Jets’ offense.

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• Jeff Raikes on Backing Agile Sports Xconomy

  Raikes made his fortune at Microsoft, and since June 2007, he has been an investor in a Lincoln, NE, software startup called Agile Sports, which helps coaches and players communicate, prepare, and scout talent and opposing players.

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• Dreaming of Fields The Economist

  While at Nebraska, he [John Wirtz] developed what eventually became “Hudl”, a software package offered by Agile that combines videos, playbooks, presentations and evaluations for players and managers to view online.

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• Technology Aids Local Squads Fox Sports

  Think video game meets film study. Hudl allows coaches to store video clips online, draw diagrams and send messages to players. Advanced users even manage and distribute a virtual playbook.

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• A New Huddle Popular Science

  What Facebook is to the original AOL Instant Messenger, Hudl is to football players analyzing game footage in the video room.

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• Jets Huddle Up with Agile Sports Sports Video Group

  Days before the NFL Draft, the New York Jets signed the player that may make the biggest impact on the team’s preparation this season – Agile Sports Technologies. A two-year-old company based in Lincoln, Neb., Agile Sports has provided the Jets with an online distribution platform that integrates video, playbook information and scouting reports to streamline the Jets’ draft preparations and give the team a jump on the upcoming season.

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• Chamber of Commerce Announces Awards at Luncheon Lincoln Journal Star

  The 2008 Entrepreneurial Spirit Award winner is Agile Sports Technologies, Inc. for its creative approach and development of technologies that have changed the face of sports playbooks.

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• NU Grads Develop Interactive Playbook System Lincoln Journal Star

  We are a long way from Vince Lombardi’s chalkboard. We’re down in the Haymarket District, next to Brewsky’s, on a 13,000-square-foot third floor that right now sits mostly empty save for a few forward-thinking 20-something techies who like paintballing, the next big idea and, of course, football.

• Agile Sports Board Member Jeff Raikes Named CEO of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has selected Agile Sports investor and Board of Advisors member Jeff Raikes as the next CEO of the foundation. Raikes, former president of the Microsoft Business Division, will assume the role presently held by Patty Stonesifer on Sept. 2, 2008.

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• Case Study: Programmers Rapidly Build Game-Like Team Training Software to Give Athletes an Edge Microsoft

  Microsoft’s white paper is a testament to the partnership developed between Agile Sports and Microsoft since the company’s formation in May 2006. The document discusses Agile’s use of the .NET Framework 3.0 to create a user experience that revolutionizes the way players and coaches interact with each other. Nebraska Head Football Coach Bill Callahan and Jeff Raikes, President of Microsoft Business Division, provide their perspectives on the benefits of Hudl Pro.

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• Players Can Study Their Assignments on Computer Screen Omaha World-Herald

  The Omaha World-Herald featured an article on Hudl Pro on the cover of its fall camp preview issue. The article highlights the roots of Agile Sports and Hudl Pro, and discusses the company’s partnership with the University of Nebraska football team.

• Case Study: Agile Sports Teams with Toshiba for a Major Scoring Drive Toshiba

  Toshiba’s white paper on Agile Sports highlights the company’s innovative use of Tablet PC technology to develop Hudl Pro. The document also discusses Agile Sports’ partnership with Toshiba.

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• Facebook for the Football Player’s Soul The Jets Blog

  Hudl [Pro] has been around for a while now but it is beginning to become part of the latest trend in Pro Football and it’s quickly gaining steam. In addition to Gang Green using the new technology, the Browns have also begun to use this innovative concept that will change the way players communicate and learn the playbook.

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