Tag: Hall of Fame
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PlaySight Lands $3.5m Investment To Fund Worldwide Distribution of Game-Changing Sports Technology
PlaySight Interactive, an innovative sports technology Company and creators of an affordable, tennis analytic system (the ‘SmartCourt’), today announced the completion of a $3.5 million investment round from high-profile private investors including Novak Djokovic, Billie-Jean King, Bill Ackman, Mark Ein, Dr. Jim Loehr and others. The Sports Techie community blog is excited to share this…
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Adrian Peterson Uses Hyperice On Knee During NFL MVP Season With Vikings
Adrian Peterson and Hyperice held a press conference last week with some of the top sports journalists and media brands who are excited about anything to do with AP. He chatted with about 20 reporters and me during a conference call about the Hyperice injury prevention and recovery technology and his now legendary rehab. The…
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MLB PrePlay Enhances Second Screen, Fan Experience And Sponsor ROI
The sports technology suite of PrePlay free apps allows you and your Sports Techie friends to predict every play of every game and earn currency while watching live sport broadcasts. MLB PrePlay is off to its second year and is the official Major League Baseball prediction game. The New York startup had 25 million predictions…
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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…
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Football Helmet Sensor Technology
Researching the topic of technology sensors in football helmets for iQ by Intel was an outstanding Sports Techie community blog opportunity. I interviewed helmet manufacturers Riddell Sports, Schutt Sports and Xenith along with an Intel spokesperson about how their company addresses helmet sensor tech. Big Data generated by high-impact collisions is being gathered with Intel…
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NFL Playbooks Gone Digital: How Teams Use Tablets to Stay Ahead
NFL Playbook. There’s an app for that! http://mvb.me/s/9ef059 Written for iQ by Intel by the Sports Techie. Thank you for clicking on the link and reading about the NFL’s Digital Age at the iQ by Intel web site and finding out about the modern day NFL coach or player and how they interface with the…
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HOW TO HELP YOUR KID BE A GREAT TEAM PLAYER
Team sports start pretty early these days, with kids as young as four and five enrolling in soccer and tee ball leagues. For most kids, that’s just the beginning. They’ll go on to participate in team sports throughout their school years and sometimes into their college ones. Besides sports, being part of a team will…
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Bloomberg Sports MLB Analytics Inaugural Rankings Of “BSports Best” Players Of The Year Awards
The 2013 Major League Baseball playoffs begin today on TBS and with it comes the announcement of the first-ever winners of the Bloomberg Sports Analytic rankings. BSports has graciously shared this breaking news with the Sports Techie community blog. The Moneyball era of proven MLB player success has officially arrived this season and for all seasons…
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Intuit Small Business Big Game Ad Vote Round Two Sports Techie Video
Initially, I wrote an Intuit Small Business Big Game Sports Techie blog last month that featured NFL on Fox football expert commentator Jimmy Johnson, then it dawned on me to enter this contest to win it so I did as you can read about in the comments section here. We have earned our way into…
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Peyton Manning’s Incredible Week 1 Compared to Brett Favre’s Best Game
Nobody, least of all those who owned him in fantasy leagues, expected Peyton Manning to drop seven touchdowns on the defending Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens during opening week. Those who had Manning on their fantasy teams, however, may have cruised to a Week One victory without even needing a single other point from their…