Tag: rankings
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Brazil, Germany and Argentina Highest Ranking FIFA World Cup Teams By Bloomberg Sports Analytics
Brazil, Germany and Argentina Highest Ranking FIFA World Cup Teams By Bloomberg Sports Analytics Brazil was the clear winner of the first-ever Bloomberg Sports 2014 FIFA World Cup analytics ratings followed by Germany, Argentina and defending 2010 FIFA South Africa Champion Spain. Bloomberg Sports (BSports), the world leaders in sports analytic technology, today revealed…
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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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ScoreStream Eager For Investment, iPhone App Launch And New Media Partnerships
ScoreStream delivers real time high school and local scores across the country. I spoke to their CEO, Derrick Oien, about his new fund raising efforts, the launch of an upgraded app version for iPhone, their upcoming announcement concerning new TV, radio and newspaper deals, and a nice user story about the UCSD women’s waterpolo team who marched on…
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Churchill Downs New 4K Video Board By Panasonic For Kentucky Derby Is World’s Largest
The new “Big Board” installed by Panasonic at Churchill Downs, the historic home of the Kentucky Derby, will be the only video board in an outdoor stadium or arena capable of displaying the new and advanced 4K ultra-high definition technology. Churchill Downs Racetrack (“CDRT”) unveiled a new $12 million, 15,224 square foot, high-definition (HD) LED…
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The Masters Social Media Players, Sponsorship Campaigns And Topics Leaderboard
The 2014 PGA Tour Majors began this past weekend with 80-year old epic golf event, The Masters. The fan experience at Augusta National has been evolving to keep up with the pace of our mobile society while retaining decade old traditions like the main scoreboard. Social media channels are the foremost way for a fan…
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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…
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March Madness Bracket Hacks And Quicken Loans Tips
The Sports Techie community blog is happy to share insightful and entertaining March Madness tips and Infographic via Stacey Johnson and Bracket Hacks for the Quicken Loans Billion Dollar Brackets Challenge with Yahoo Sports for a chance to win one billion dollars. Bracket Hacks Bracket Hacks compiled tips on how to build the ultimate bracket.…
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Post Sochi: The Technology Behind the World’s Largest Sporting Event via iQ by Intel
The sports technology integrated into the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Russia was mind blowing as was the over $50 billion International event price tag. I was privileged to once again write for iQ by Intel about a trending topic wrapped in sports tech for the Sports Techie community blog. Sports + Tech By…
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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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What’s That Olympic Sport Called Again?
Sophia from sports-management-degrees.com posted an Infographic “What’s That Olympic Sport Called Again?”, which the Sports Techie community blog is happy so share with our readers all over the world. Many of the summer and winter Olympic sports in this Infographic have a glorious history that go back over one hundred years. Every two years we turn on our t.v.’s and…