A new scouting platform built by a teenager in Delhi and adopted by the All India Football Federation (AIFF) last month seeks to level the playing field in India by unearthing talent in rural regions that might have otherwise been overlooked. Kush Pandey, a 17-year-old soccer player, came up with the idea for ScoutMe […]
At its core, coaching has always been as much about building and maintaining relationships as it is about the instructional knowledge being passed along. Many coaches, however, experience frustration over the hours they spend communicating with players long after their regular practice sessions have ended. But CoachNow (formerly known as Edufii) offers a solution in […]
The Toronto Blue Jays are smacking baseballs and sitting in second place in their division. But months before the start of the 2018 MLB season, the team made a deal with a sports technology company to study swing data, starting with an examination of their minor league players. The team reached out to Diamond Kinetics, […]
Virtex Arena, an augmented reality app designed to fill the downtime during live sporting events, uses a 3D model of the stadium to overlay games onto the field directly in front of a viewer’s seat. The football version of the app debuted earlier this year at the Super Bowl, but its makers have their eyes on […]
A record amount of people tuned into March Madness via live streams this year amid an increase in availability and an improvement in the overall quality of streams, according to Conviva, a digital media analytics company that measured the tournament for Turner Sports. In the first two days of the tournament across all of the […]
