Spoiler alert: This report doesn’t give away any major plot twists in “17776,” SB Nation’s online presentation, but if you want to stay totally in the dark, wait to read this item until after you’ve checked it out. What do space probes and football have in common? A weird and wonderful tale on the sports website SB Nation provides an answer, but you have to work for it. As readers scroll through conversations from the future, author and illustrator Jon Bois introduces readers to Nine, Ten and Juice — referring to NASA’s Pioneer 9 and Pioneer 10 probes plus the… Read More
Technology is shaking up the NFL, from how fans watch games to keeping players safe on the field. Attendees at our second annual GeekWire Sports Tech Summit got the inside scoop from NFL COO Tod Leiweke on how the nation’s most popular professional sports league is tapping into the latest innovations both on and off the field. Veteran NFL reporter John Clayton sat down with Leiweke, the former CEO of the Seattle Seahawks and Tampa Bay Lightning who became the NFL’s COO in 2015, to talk about everything from the league’s new streaming deal with Amazon to the declining TV ratings… Read More
To describe Jerry Dipoto as a baseball geek is probably an understatement. The Seattle Mariners general manager has long been a baseball historian and statistical guru, dating back to his days as a Major League relief pitcher when he was the only active player who was also an active member of the Society for American Baseball Research. Now in his second season as general manager of the Seattle Mariners, Dipoto is tapping everything from analytics to sports science as he tries to help improve decision-making both on and off the baseball diamond. We recently had the pleasure of hearing from Dipoto… Read More
At 25 years old, Oliver Brossmann is pretty young when it comes to being an entrepreneur. He’s also young to have already suffered from tendonitis in both knees. But without the latter he might not have become the former. Brossmann grew up in Seattle and dreamed as a kid of of becoming a professional soccer player. But his body defied his passion early on, and in high school he required surgery on both knees. He was sidelined for a year and despite playing again eventually, he was never going to go pro. During the time he was recovering, Brossmann started… Read More
It’s not just NFL and NCAA players who will be wearing Vicis’ new football helmet this season — teenagers will get to try it out, too. Sam Treat is a sophomore at Garfield High School in Seattle who just received the Vicis ZERO1, a new high-tech helmet designed to mitigate the forces thought to cause concussions. He’s one of just 100 high school players who will wear the helmet this upcoming football season. Many more NFL and NCAA players will do the same. My GeekWire colleague Chelsey Ballarte stopped by Treat’s house this week and interviewed him as he opened… Read More
