Russell Wilson may have inadvertently invented the geekiest touchdown celebration of the NFL season. The Seattle Seahawks quarterback was on the sidelines reviewing past plays on a Microsoft Surface tablet when his team’s defense forced a fumble and returned it for a touchdown, clinching a big 21-7 win over Minnesota during a primetime Monday Night Football game at CenturyLink Field. The cameras caught Wilson’s celebration, which involved the former Microsoft spokesperson dropping the tablet as if he was doing a mic drop. Russell drops the Microsoft Surface on @Vikings #vikings #dropthesurface sierrra wilson #MINvsSEA @nfl @espn @NFL_MNF @MNF pic.twitter.com/4DgxXYu0pu —… Read More
Professional hockey is coming back to the Emerald City. The NHL Board of Directors on Tuesday awarded an expansion franchise to Seattle, where the league’s 32nd team will play games at a redeveloped KeyArena beginning in the 2021-22 season, just a few blocks away from Amazon’s headquarters and offices of other tech giants such as Google and Facebook. “Seattle: The NHL is thrilled to welcome you,” NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said at press conference on Tuesday. Bettman makes it official.NHL to Seattle in 2021.#NHL #Seattle pic.twitter.com/jVrivUYDwX — Chris Daniels (@ChrisDaniels5) December 4, 2018 This is an awesome day for Seattle… Read More
Amazon’s investment in the sports world continued at the company’s signature cloud technology conference this week, but not in the way you’d expect. Amazon Web Services chief and big sports fan Andy Jassy on Wednesday in Las Vegas unveiled a first-of-its-kind global autonomous racing league called AWS DeepRacer. We are pleased and excited to announce AWS DeepRacer and the AWS DeepRacer League. New reinforcement learning powered AWS service and racing league ML powered cars. #reInvent pic.twitter.com/9Qmmqj4Ebw — AWS re:Invent (@AWSreInvent) November 28, 2018 The league features AWS DeepRacer, a 1/18th scale radio-controlled, self-driving four-wheel race car designed to help developers… Read More
The Safeco Field signage came down from Seattle’s baseball stadium a week ago, and according to a new report, the T-Mobile name will be up in time for the 2019 season. Forbes reported Thursday that the Bellevue, Wash.-based wireless carrier is the new naming rights partner with the Seattle Mariners. The report is based on anonymous sources who spoke on background. A Mariners spokesperson told GeekWire that there is no agreement yet. Safeco Insurance and the Mariners announced in June 2017 that their 20-year naming rights agreement would come to an end after the 2018 season. Forbes reported on a… Read More
Lorena Martin, the first Director of High Performance with the Seattle Mariners, is out after just one season with the Major League Baseball team, and she’s not leaving on friendly terms. In a post on her Instagram account on Monday afternoon, Martin said the Mariners organization “has major issues” and that things she witnessed and heard left her shocked. The Seattle Times first reported the news, saying that MLB sources first mentioned last week that Martin had been fired. In a statement Monday, the Mariners confirmed that Martin was let go on Oct. 10, and called her allegations of racism “outrageous and… Read More
