Tony Blair stepped in with his protrade appeal, but the talks broke down over agricultural subsidies.

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Protrade uses raw sports data from Stats, Inc. to build massive play-by-play databases for each of the three major sports.

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He should go to Protrade and see if people agree with him.

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The two hit it off that night, and three weeks later Ma flew to Silicon Valley to join Protrade as its chief of research.

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Protrade recently signed an agreement with ESPN to license its analytics for use on pro football broadcasts, studio shows and ESPN.com, starting this season.

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Years later Ma co-founded an online sports stock market called Protrade.com (which Forbes profiled in 2006) and later a company called CitizenSports, recently purchased by Yahoo!

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