Saturday night’s bout between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor was the most high-profile prize fight that could be ordered pay-per-view through online streaming, yet widespread outages and choppy feeds left many disappointed and has already prompted a class-action lawsuit. The four-fight card in Las Vegas was available for $99.99 through the traditional Showtime PPV broadcast […]
The debate among club soccer teammates started, as so many do, over a postgame beer. A few years ago, the squad’s goalkeeper was adamant that he ran about eight kilometers, or five miles, while defending the net; everyone else was dubious. As it happened, one of the players, Julien Moix, would become CEO of the […]
NEW YORK — The Arizona Diamondbacks could join the Tampa Bay Rays and a handful of other major league clubs using virtual reality in game preparation. Diamondbacks president and CEO Derrick Hall told the SportTechie podcast that VR could be the next big trend in baseball, as it offers a good way for the club’s […]
Steve Walker is a Marine Corps veteran who has competed in more than a dozen triathlons. Among those, he has completed two full Ironman competitions — swimming, cycling and running across 140.6 continuous miles. He’s also nearly blind. Walker has retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited degenerative eye disease that has gradually reduced his field of vision […]
The bane of every sportswriter’s job is writing a game recap on deadline in which the lead changes in the final minute or on the last play — and add extra innings or overtime for double the fun. In Korea, there will now be one scribe not cursing the late story change, as the Yonhap […]
