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With the baseball season now in full swing, the NBA playoffs underway and the Stanley Cup playoffs right around the corner, it is an exciting time for sports.  And for sports APIs.  In the past few months, there have been a number of exciting events that have brought sports data and sports APIs to center stage.

With the Super Bowl/awards season now officially over, we can look back and assess how this year’s season compares with last years in terms of social engagement and second screen usage.  Not surprisingly, social media engagement grew for all the major events this year.   The Super Bowl drew 30 million mentions/comments in the social media space, while the Grammys and the Oscars drew 19 and 18 million, respectively.