Television cameras spied Australian cricketer Cameron Bancroft rubbing a piece of yellow tape on the cricket ball in a test match against South Africa in Cape Town on Saturday. Bancroft later confessed to trying to use the tape and dirt granules to rough up the ball in an effort to change its flight. He appeared […]
The NBA began experimenting with micropayments to allow out-of-market fans to watch the fourth quarter of Friday night’s games for just 99 cents. This follows through on a vision shared by commissioner Adam Silver on a sports business innovation panel at CES in 2017. Citing the league’s move from an all-or-nothing season-long subscription to NBA […]
Former head of NFL officiating Mike Pereira called the recommended changes to the catch rule “a great step in the right direction” but also called for the removal of replay from the third element of the proposal. Current senior vice president of officiating, Al Riveron, made public the Competition Committee’s plan for revising the controversial […]
The PGA Tour has launched a free ad-supported streaming channel on video-on-demand service XUMO that will feature access to taped highlights, recaps, player interviews, tournament previews and live coverage of certain holes. The companies say this marks the first ad-supported PGA Tour over-the-top channel available on smart TVs. It’ll feature both live and on-demand programming, […]
