Lincoln Financial Field and the Philadelphia Eagles have already been working with Extreme Networks. Now the entire NFL will be using their data. (Extreme Networks) New York, NY. — One of the biggest frustrations for the connected sports fan these days is the complete uselessness of their smartphone while attending most sporting events. 50,000 (or more) of fellow fans pack into a stadium and the 4G or Wi-Fi networks are quickly overloaded and unable to provide use. The NFL has been working hard to correct this issue in all stadiums, and yesterday they took a major step towards improvement when they announced the selection of Extreme Networks Inc. as the official analytics provider for the NFL and Super Bowl XLVII....
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When the Seattle Seahawks faced the New Orleans Saints on Monday night football earlier this month, fans in the stadium had more than just a victory in mind.
Fans at CenturyLink Field set a new noise record for the loudest outdoor sports stadium, measuring at 137.6 decibels.
The previous record had been 137.5 decibels, recorded by Kansas City Chiefs fans in October.
Cal’s athletics department announced the sale of field naming rights to mobile gaming company Kabam. Kabam is working on a new logo that will be unveiled next spring. (Lance Knobel) Since the beginning of organized sports in the modern era, sponsorship’s have played a prominent role in defining how we see athletics. Whether it is a promotional commercial, a professional soccer jersey, or a stock car at the Daytona 500, we are exposed to an unfathomable number of company advertisements and logos on a daily basis. Sports sponsorship’s have dramatically increased after a tremendous boom in the sports industry during the 1970’s, and with the quantity of sponsorship’s continuing to rise, it appears there is no turning back. In fact,...
(Otto Greule Jr/Getty Images North America) Our 2013 NFL Tech Series provides a quick hit of tech insight on all 32 NFL teams up until kickoff of Week 1 of the regular season. Each feature includes the latest tech advances implemented by the organization in the effort to advance the team’s success… in a wide variety of venues. Stadium experience, fan engagement, mobile technologies, player performance and health, statistical data gathering and analysis… any and all aspects of the organization’s procedures in the effort to find success in the NFL is on the table. We’re uncovering those efforts, investigating those innovations and pondering the benefit they might provide, for the team, players and fans alike… today and looking forward. Chip...
Remember when Marshawn Lynch went all Beast Mode on the New Orleans Saints and caused an earthquake? A French physicist and his colleague may have just found a way to detect earthquakes from space. Using a gravity field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) instrument, the pair discovered clear infrasound signals from a 2011 quake […]
