Oregon State University and the athletic department recently announced their new subscription-based and on-demand ticket service for all university athletic contests, SQUAD. The hope is to get more recent Oregon State graduates to attend home sporting events. SQUAD is a mobile app that will allow users to attend any home game, for every sport that requires a ticket. This new […]
This season Facebook worked with the NCAA and numerous tournament teams to bring fans live content. They also teamed up with Turner to stream tonight’s game live in virtual reality via Facebook’s Oculus Rift headset. Clearly Facebook is making a big push into live sports as it positions itself to become not just a content […]
Most ticketing sites for major sporting events provide some sort of image of the section or seat for all of their tickets sold. It is an incredibly helpful tool to see whether you like the view from the seat before you buy the tickets, or to make sure that you will not be seeing more […]
Conventional statistics are no longer enough for sports in the über-advanced twenty-first century. While it was once sufficient to track just batting average and home runs in baseball, analysts now turn to metrics like fielding independent pitching and batting average on balls in play to judge how well players are performing. Similarly, in basketball, player speed, […]
With the last weekend of March Madness quickly approaching the NCAA announced a partnership with Samsung, to live stream the Final Four and National Championship in Virtual Reality, for the first time ever. This announcement comes on the heels of Fox partnering with NextVR, which gave fans the opportunity to watch the Big East Tournament in VR. Get […]
