Tag: GM

  • BigTeams High School Athletic Websites And Software Company Raises Funds, Hires CEO Clay Walker

    BigTeams, one of the fastest growing, easy to use and most comprehensive website and software systems for high school athletics programs today introduced industry veteran Clay Walker as its Chief Executive Officer and also announced an investment round, led by Capital Sports Ventures. Walker is a long-time sports, entertainment and digital innovator hired to lead…

  • The Masters Social Media Leaderboard

    Back in October, I wrote an article for the Sports Techie community blog featuring Dachis Group’s data on the World Series. Dachis Group was recently acquired by Sprinklr to strengthen their standing as a New York-based social media analytics firm trying to master the CRM suite space. Brian Kotlyar, avp demand generation, reached out to…

  • Swish Analytics Algorithmic Sports, Predictions And Betting Recommendations At BetBuckets

    Swish Analytics Inc., is a sports technology startup based in San Francisco that developed algorithmic sports, predictions and betting recommendations. The three founders raised $300K in March from a group of private angel investors to deliver algorithmic sports predictions to bettors and fans in the underserved data science field. The ground-breaking movie Moneyball, opened the public’s…

  • Win 15K When You Predict the Best March Madness Bracket Data Set

    Intel and Kaggle have teamed up to introduce the new March Madness Learning Mania competition. The winner of this NCAA tournament based contest earns $15,000, may that be a Sports Techie community blog reader. I had a terrific opportunity to learn about Kaggle’s competition-based platform and Intel’s Big Data push towards business applications that can predict…

  • Best, Brightest And Worst Major League Baseball Executives Of All Time

    The Evolution of the Major League Baseball General Manager has swung from former players to more education driven and sports tech advocating GMs. Sophia Barber from Sports-management-degrees.com shared the Infographic below with the Sports Techie community blog titled, “Play Ball! The Best, Brightest and Worst Baseball Executives of All Time.”  “Play Ball! The Best, Brightest and Worst…

  • Campus Insiders Showcases All-New Website With Multi-Year Partnership with Cadillac

    Campus Insiders (www.CampusInsiders.com), the leading digital content syndication source and online destination for college sports fans, announced today the redesign of its site and content offerings, and a multi-year partnership with Cadillac. The Sports Techie community blog is excited to share this breaking news as the college basketball season winds down and the NCAA March…

  • Show Me the Money: So…You Want To Be A Sports Agent? INFOGRAPHIC

    Sports Techie Zelda Robbins shared “Show Me the Money: So You Want to be a Sports Agent?” INFOGRAPHIC with our community blog. Source: SportsManagementDegreeHub.com Sports Techie, I was living the dream in Orange County California working as a sports agent for Pro Moves athletic agency in 1995, the epic movie “Jerry Maguire” about super agent Drew…

  • Boxing, Money, and Health: The Floyd Mayweather Case Study and Infographic

    Boxing, Money, and Health: The Floyd Mayweather Case Study and InfographicThis pioneering boxing sports business infographic case study about Floyd “Money” Mayweather is full of Big Data facts for the Sports Techie community blog to analyze. The explosion of Pay Per View technology in sports and in particular boxing and the UFC have helped Mr.…

  • Campus Insiders Is The First Digital-Only Free College Sports Network

    Campus Insiders is the first digital-only college sports network. Campus Insiders sports technology features original LIVE HD programming. Their current lineup includes 15 exclusive college football games this season, available exclusively at CampusInsiders.com. Campus Insiders is a partnership between IMG College and Silver Chalice, whose chairman and founder is Chicago Bulls and White Sox owner,…

  • Lacrosse Players on Twitter You Should Follow

    Lacrosse Players on Twitter You Should Follow Considered to be the best social media platform available, and much to the chagrin of their coaches, print and TV media, a expanding number of Lacrosse players are present and hugely popular in the Twitter mainly to promote themselves, increase fan base and be able to connect to…