In baseball banter everywhere from bleacher seats to barrooms everywhere in between, home runs are celebrated as homers, dingers, bombs and long balls. The pinstriped uniforms of New York’s American League team may say Yankees, but the club is often known as the Yanks, the Bronx Bombers and — now that Aaron Judge, Gary Sanchez […]
NEW YORK — Tennis icon Serena Williams is casually chatting about how she’s afraid of sharks. Golden State Warriors sharpshooter Stephen Curry is polling fans about which shoes to buy. Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is orchestrating a scavenger hunt to find free tickets. These are just a sampling of a typical day on […]
Which player had the most RBI in 2015? Facebook Messenger wants to see if you know the answer. A new Messenger bot, announced last month, will engage MLB fans in trivia via the popular Facebook chat service. The bot is one of several created by major sports leagues and teams aiming to drive engagement with […]
Legendary Italian soccer club Juventus FC launched a virtual reality app Thursday with four episodes taking users onto the match-day pitch, behind the scenes at training and into the middle of its Serie A championship celebration last season. “The potential [for VR] is enormous for a club like Juventus, where 80 percent of our 50 […]
NEW YORK — While analytics have already permeated the basketball discourse enough that anyone can identify that the most efficient shots are close-range 2-pointers and 3-pointers, those broad parameters lack pertinent details in evaluating the quality of a shot: the defender’s proximity and wingspan, his matchup history with the shooter and even his passing options. […]
