The Oakland Athletics put a creative spin on charitable giving this holiday by livestreaming The Inaugural Oakland A’s #GivingTuesday Telethon Spectacular, an hourlong event hosted by former perfect game pitcher Dallas Braden and streamed on Facebook Live. The event, held in the A’s home clubhouse, raised more than $27,000 for educational and sporting initiatives for […]
Baseball’s most innovative franchise, the Houston Astros, triumphed over a Los Angeles Dodgers roster assembled by a front office with several Ph.D.’s in what was undoubtedly the most data-driven World Series to date. Their sensibilities were an appropriate capstone to a 2017 Major League Baseball season full of advancements. Here are SportTechie’s starting lineup of […]
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn’t directly answer a question about his company’s plans for bidding on sports rights but distilled their very ethos and mass appeal when describing the content he would like to include under the social media site’s Watch tab. “We’re going to focus our products on all the ways to […]
An AAU game last month involving LaMelo and LaVar Ball, broadcasted on Facebook live by Ballislife, hit 1.3 million total views, including 800,000 that tuned in live and 620,000 uniques. Ballislife, a digital content platform that specializes in amateur basketball, normally distributes its content on YouTube, and had done content on Facebook before in the […]
Facebook has announced that it will introduce Watch, a new platform for users to watch shows consisting of episodes with live or recorded content. For some television viewers, that will mean the addition of yet another alternative place where they can find sports content. Watch will have plenty of live sports and sports-related video on-demand […]
