Over the past several decades, many great advances in sports technology have revolutionized the game of tennis. Court and ball tracking technology have both changed how the game is viewed by fans. Additionally, rackets have transitioned from players’ hands all the way to composite frames composed of graphic, titanium, and carbon fiber. Even social media…
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NASCAR Allows Fans To Define The Rules Of The Race Thru Sports Technology, Mobile-App Voting
The vision that NASCAR and Sprint had when they partnered almost 10 years ago of using sports technology to bring fans closer to the sport is coming to fruition. For the first exhibition race of the season — the Sprint Unlimited scheduled for Feb. 16 at Daytona International Speedway — fans will have the opportunity to…
How The Indianapolis Colts Used Sports Technology To Improve Its Game In 2012-13 (INFOGRAPHIC)
Like other NFL teams in 2012-13, the Indianapolis Colts also made the jump to Global Apptitude’s digital playbook to give themselves the competitive advantage. Instead of resorting to a hefty 800-page playbook for another season, head coach Chuck Pagano opted for the trendier and more environmentally-friendly playbook. But that wasn’t their only change in sports technology….
Spira “WaveSpring® Technology” Set to Change Running Footware As We Know It
Forget the way you ever thought about running shoes. Spria’s new WaveSpring technology is set to set the standard of running shoes as we know it. Spira is bringing in a new technology in spring form that will configure for you and give you that perfect running shoe you need to go the extra mile….
Four Future Trends in Sports
Over the next couple of weeks, every blogger and their mother will pen a post with their 2013 predictions. This is not that post. Those interested in landing a sports job (or any job for that matter) must be forward thinking. They must have an educated guess on what is going to happen next and why…
PrePlay Football v3.0 Now on iTunes
PrePlay Football’s app is one of the world’s best predictors and resources for NFL Football. With this app, you can use it to efficiently predict nearly every down of every drive during the remainder of the season. And the best part about it, it’s all in real time. This app for iPhone and iTouch works…
DraftDay Brings Daily Fantasy Sports
Are your fantasy football championship hopes down for the count? DraftDay has a great solution for you: daily fantasy sports. DraftDay’s founders include Taylor Caby, a former online poker player who co-founded the popular poker site, CardRunners. Caby appreciates how his time in poker has helped him learn to recognize online trends, and he feels that daily…
Sports Journalist Toolkit: What You NEED to Have
To all you aspiring sports journalists hoping to be the next Al Michaels, Woody Paige, Erin Andrews, Kirk Herbstreit or John Madden, you’ll need to know the basic “toolkit” needed to be successful. Odds are you won’t be busting onto the national scene to start your career, and will have to work your way up the…
Go Big Or Go Home: Seattle Mariners Aren’t Messing Around With New Sports Technology Display
The Seattle Mariners are taking the classic phrase, ‘Go big or go home,’ to the extreme. The team is in the early stages of constructing what will be the biggest video display in Major League Baseball. It’ll also rival similar displays in the other professional sports. The latest addition in sports technology at Safeco Field…
By The Numbers: The 2012 Digital Sports Fan (INFOGRAPHIC)
Smartphones. Tablets. Twitter, facebook, and social media galore. 2012 is the time to be a digital sports fan. From online content and video highlights to actually seeing the game live, there are an increasing amount of ways to follow your favorite sports team. Burst Media recently surveyed a little over 500 fans to figure out…
The Fan of Tomorrow
This is the Fan of Tomorrow’s humble opinion… Of what could happen decades down the road to the sports industry. The words and opinions expressed by the Fan of Tomorrow are not directly linked with the author’s views but since we don’t know what the future holds for certain it would be best advised to be…
Reebok, MC10 Create Latest Sports Technology In Concussion Detection
In an era where concussions seem to be an all-too-familiar occurrence, professional sports teams, equipment manufacturers, and technological firms all seem to be on the same page in creating the latest sports technology to detect head injuries. Reebok-CCM Hockey recently partnered with a Cambridge, Mass. start-up company, MC10, to adopt a new skullcap that can…