Tag: ESPN

  • ESPN Broadcast Money Helps Double Professional Women’s Hockey Players Salary Cap

    PHF SALARY CAP TO DOUBLE FOR 2023-24 SEASON TO HISTORIC $1.5 MILLION Women’s sports continue to go mainstream and the results for the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF) are doubling of the salary cap heading into the 2023-24 season. The PHF has a significant broadcast deal in place with ESPN since the 2022-23 season. The two-year…

  • San Diego Seals To Play First-Ever NLL Outdoor Box Lacrosse Game At Snapdragon Stadium

    National Lacrosse League (NLL) and the San Diego Seals franchise are playing on March 4, 2023 in an outdoor box game versus the Las Vegas Desert Dogs at Snapdragon Stadium in a “community cultivation” event. This first-ever @NLL game played outdoors marks the world’s only professional box lacrosse league’s entry into playing in larger, outdoor…

  • ESPN Offers Genius Sports AI-Augmented Tech For NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship

    Genius Sports technology and augmented solutions will enhance the 2022 NCAA Division I Women Basketball Championship ESPN telecasts using an assortment of artificial intelligence (AI) generated tracking data to enhance the augmentation of live video for the Final Four and National Championship game on Sunday, April 3 at 8 pm EST hosted at the Target…

  • ShotTracker Added To ESPN Edge Big 12 Conference Basketball Games

    ShotTracker and Big 12 Conference men’s basketball games announced an agreement with ESPN Edge Innovation Center to sync proprietary data and analytics. Data Driven Sports (DDSports) signed a multi-year deal to allow the integration of ShotTracker’s statistics and data-driven analysis throughout ESPN’s linear and digital properties to grow fan engagement, create sports tech backed stories,…

  • Virtual NFL Draft 2020 Mostly Good And Some Bad Sports Tech

    The 2020 virtual NFL draft starts tomorrow online bringing with it, good and bad sports tech. The best of the good is the fact that this is streaming live sports content. Is the draft considered an actual live sport? That is debatable but since coronavirus has shut down most non-essential businesses at least until this…

  • The Best Mobile Apps for The Sports Junkie

    Nowadays there is a mobile application for just about anything, but it’s the applications that change our lives which really stand out. Being a sports fanatic means staying up to date with the latest scores, keeping up with transfers and recruitments and every so often, placing a cash wager for the fun of it. The…

  • Matthew Berry Game Changer Awarded To World Championship Of Fantasy Football

    WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP OF FANTASY FOOTBALL NAMED FIRST-EVER “MATTHEW BERRY GAME CHANGER” AWARD WINNER Winning the inaugural Matthew Berry Game Changer Award earned the World Championship of Fantasy Football (WCOFF) a check for $200,000, the Crystal Trophy and a piece of sports tech history. With the NFL 2018 season and training camp less than a month…

  • How to Take Your Passion for Sports Further with a Drone

    How to Take Your Passion for Sports Further with a Drone Sports and tech make such a good team that they influence each other every moment. While drones develop into new shapes and technologies, their prices also lower for the end customer. Sports enthusiasts – such as you and us – now can use the…

  • Video Streaming Platforms Offer OTT Savings Versus Cable TV Costs

    Cut The Cord Because OTT Technology Saves Streaming Sports Costs Cutting the cord is like swimming or riding a bike solo for the first time, you simply have to plunge in when the time calls for saying good-bye to traditional cable television or satellite pay-TV commitments and go for it. In my case, paying for…

  • Bracket Advice By numberFire With Special March Madness Tournament Rate

    Bracket Advise By numberFire With Special March Madness Tournament Rate The sports analytics loving folks at numberFire once again shared their March Madness bracket generator and NCAAB tools to help our users prepare for their bracket pools. The Sports Techie community blog readers and followers include many fans that play in March Madness pools with…