The elite high school prospects participating in the inaugural Prospect Development Pipeline series of showcases and tournaments — a collaboration of USA Baseball and Major League Baseball — will have access to advanced tracking metrics thanks to a new partnership with Rapsodo. While TrackMan radars are installed at all 30 major league ballparks, as well as […]
Pro skateboarder Curren Caples gains speed coming down a ramp then launches into a kickflip. His heart rate spikes as he lifts into the air, but fans wouldn’t easily know that because he makes it look easy. A new art installation that debuted last month at the Dew Tour skateboarding event in Long Beach is […]
Rafael Nadal’s tennis academy has announced three winning startups from a competition it held to uncover and support sports technology companies. The competition, supported by Movistar and Telefonica’s “Open Future” initiative announced the winners as iAltitude, Vilynx and Spinn Technologies. The event was held at the Rafa Nadal Academy, with “The King Of Clay” in […]
With the Champions Trophy kicking off this week, Intel has announced a new partnership with the International Cricket Council (ICC) to provide a host of new in-game data points to fans watching live broadcasts of the games from this event. On the pitch during the competition, Intel will be using its coin-sized Curie compute module that […]
Pascal Poupart, a professor at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in Canada has spent the last year working alongside HockeyTech, a data provider, to automate recognition of events during a hockey game using machine learning techniques. It takes substantial effort to accurately track puck possession, time on ice […]
