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How The Professional Bull Riders Mix Old School, New School Technology

NEW YORK — It’s a rock concert and country music show mixed in with some circus and pyrotechnic theatrics.

Professional Bull Riders, which now falls underneath the WME/IMG umbrella following its acquisition in 2015, came to Madison Square Garden earlier this year with its Built Ford Tough Series.

SportTechie had a chance to tour with Jon Sager, PBR Senior Vice President of Information Technology, to gain a sense of some of the technical aspects of the sports property but also to understand how the operation works behind-the-scenes.

Sager, who has been with the PBR since 2011, called it a “blend between old school technology and new school technology.