Pittsburgh Steelers fans have the pleasure on Sundays this fall of watching Le’Veon Bell run amok. But failing the ability to watch the game, fans can now hear the score afterwards from Bell himself. Through a new app by StatMuse — a natural language processing company with a focus on sports — fans can ask any […]
NEW YORK — What if Michael Jordan had worn a WHOOP strap leading up to his famous “flu game” and fans back in 1997 had access to that data on how his body was doing? WHOOP founder and CEO Will Ahmed is guessing that based upon his own data that he saw while recovering from […]
The NFL Players Association through NFL Players Inc., the union’s licensing and marketing arm, tapped ride-sharing company Lyft for a 2017 season partnership, which kicked off last week in Philadelphia as part of the NFL Draft. At the end of February, the NFLPA’s deal with Uber expired, the union confirmed to SportTechie on Monday. For […]
Boston-based sports performance company WHOOP struck a deal with the NFL Players Association, giving all NFL players, including incoming ones, the ability to monitor their strain, sleep and recovery as the WHOOP Strap 2.0 wearable device will be distributed to every player. As the first such deal of its kind between a professional players association and […]
Through a new football virtual reality project, NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana is helping change the way gamers play and interact with one other. Montana and industry veteran Damon Grow — as part of their virtual reality game developer Superstar Games — announced on Friday its upcoming inaugural seven-on-seven all-passing game, Montana 17. […]
