Tag: ESPN
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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…
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Fantasy Sports And Daily Fantasy Sports: What You Need to Know
Fantasy Sports And Daily Fantasy Sports: What You Need to Know Fantasy sports (FS) are games played by sports fans and enthusiasts against one and other. The games are generally played online and with apps by players building virtual teams with real players. Results are based on the performance of those players. Choosing a “fantasy”…
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Sports Tech Increasing MLB Viewership Numbers During World Series
The World Series between the Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers began yesterday giving Major League Baseball center stage for this epic sporting event while the sports stands at a growth crossroads. Once the most popular American pastime, baseball has begun to dwindle. Less and less people are watching baseball on TV and fans are getting…
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NFL National Anthem Protest Affecting Ticket Sales And TV Viewership
NFL ticket sales and TV viewership numbers are being affected by the Constitutional rights of their players to kneel or sit for the National Anthem in unity as a sign of protest towards racial inequality and police brutality but the data according to brokers indicate it is not much, if at all. Ticket revenue while…
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NFL Game Pass Europe Launches To Change Fan Viewership Habits
Europe, Get Ready For NFL Game Pass Europe OTT Streaming NFL Game Pass Europe launched in time for the New England Patriots dismantling by the Kansas City Chiefs in game one of the 2017 season. American football fans in 61 European markets can now pay to subscribe to stream live games and compelling, data rich…
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Mayweather, McGregor Odds, Bettors, Social Hype Tour and PPV
Floyd “Money” Mayweather is favored to defeat MMA superstar Conor “Notorious” McGregor in a highly anticipated boxing match on August 26 that opened at 225-1 and is now 1.18 to 1 in favor of the 40-year old boxing legend according to CrownBet, the premier online odds provider located in Australia. Because the fight hype has…
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FIRST YEAR OF CENTRALIZED REPLAY A SUCCESS, SAYS ACC
For the moment, ACC league Coordinator of Football Officiating, Dennis Hennigan, seems happy with the way Collaborative Instant replay has been used in its first two seasons; of course, not everyone will agree with his assessment. The Sports Techie community blog sure does and believes using video to assist referees must become a standard across…
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Start Your UAV Engines: Getting Started in Drone Racing
When affordable drones first became available, it was only a matter of time before people began racing them. The Sports Techie community blog loves this new sport because it is truly the merger of sports and technology with a healthy dose of safe competition. It’s obvious why drone racing is taking the world by storm when the…
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SportsCastr Live CEO Chats With THE Sports Techie Community Blog
Innovative & Easy-To-Use Platform Allows Any User to Create Professional-Level Live Sports Broadcast SportsCastr Live is in beta testing mode until September yet launched their new customizable video platform this week designed for all digital devices to enable professional looking streamed video broadcasts over an iOS app, laptop or desktop computer. The innovative sports tech…
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Season Share Ticket Sharing App Launching At SXSW Pitch Accelerator
Season Share Launches At SXSW Pitch Accelerator Event Season Share is launching at the ninth annual South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference and Festivals Startup Village® Accelerator® Pitch Event at Hilton Austin Downtown on March 21 with a beta version of the world’s first mobile ticket sharing app. The sports tech startup found a niche in…