MELVILLE, N.Y. — In a mid-sized office building in the suburbs of Long Island, a company called LBi Software, with its sports-focused division LBi Dynasty, has been stealthily building scouting software for Major League Baseball since the late 1990s. Now, after moving to a shiny new office in November meant to accommodate a growing team […]
Netball is a game similar to basketball played between two teams of seven players and primarily by women in commonwealth nations. The England Roses — currently ranked third in the International Netball Federation (INF) rankings — recently brought on lead strength and conditioning coach Jools Murray to use Catapult Sports technology to improve the team’s performance on […]
Next time you head out to the links, you may want to bring a new golf ball. Coach Labs has announced the availability of the GEN i1 smart golf ball, a Bluetooth-enabled device that tracks a number of performance metrics and sends them to a smartphone app. The ball tracks its rotation, skid and distance among other […]
When St. Bonaventure High standout softball player Kalene Egedi tried to walk on to the powerhouse Texas A&M team in 2011, the coach made what should have been a rather perfunctory request to see her high school stats and videos. With the help of her father, Pete, they scoured the Internet for news clippings, box […]
PHILADELPHIA — Soccer is perhaps at its most exciting when its biggest stars — think Neymar, Messi and Luis Suárez — are dribbling through the defense and firing shots into the net from any conceivable angle and position. What most fans likely don’t notice is how those players are set up for opportunities by the […]
