Here are the top seven technology areas that impacted the NFL this season: 1. Football tracking In the fourth year of its five-year deal with the NFL, Zebra Technologies was able to place in tracking chips in all game balls. That enables the gathering of data including the velocity and rotation rate of the football. […]
EA and the NFL announced on Friday a partnership with ESPN and Disney XD to broadcast the two-part EA Sports Madden NFL 18 Championship Series. The first part is the Madden NFL Club Championship, which begins with the Pro Bowl today and culminates in the final at the Super Bowl Experience in Minneapolis on Feb. […]
Have you ever watched ESPN’s First Take and thought, “What Stephen A. Smith just said is crazy! I’ve got a better take than that.” It’s safe to assume just about everyone has had that thought cross their mind. Luckily, ESPN is debuting a program called First Take: Your Take (FTYT) via Facebook Watch that directly incorporates your takes. Set to […]
Victor Cruz, the 31-year-old former New York Giants wide receiver, spoke earlier this month at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas about how the consumption of sports content among players is changing, and it didn’t necessarily sound good for ESPN. “I think it’s all on their phones,” Cruz said. “I think it’s all on […]
The college football season ended in style with Alabama’s thrilling win against Georgia in the College Football Playoff championship game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, and there to capture it all were cameras that ESPN placed inside the first-down markers. ESPN had its first-and-10 marker cams make their debut earlier in the College Football Playoff semifinal at […]
