The Chicago Cubs’ ninth-inning rally ended Saturday night when home-plate umpire Mark Wegner called strike three on Ben Zobrist. The deciding pitch, a slider from Arizona Diamondbacks reliever David Hernandez, appeared to be a couple inches low, at least to everyone in a Cubs uniform. All Zobrist could do was stand at the plate with […]
In the lead-up to his marquee boxing match against undefeated Floyd Mayweather on Aug. 26, Conor McGregor is utilizing a new, tech-laden training facility at UFC’s campus in Las Vegas. The UFC Performance Institute, which opened in May, offers mixed martial arts fighters like McGregor a space to use innovative fitness solutions in their training […]
MyNextMatch — a sports management software company — has launched its new iteration of its MediCard software, which digitally stores medical data on combat athletes, allowing national and international fighting federations to track and analyze a fighter’s medical history. Before this program, fighting federations were relegated to using exclusively paper sources to assess an athlete’s […]
Disney will launch an ESPN-branded sports streaming service early next year that will feature roughly 10,000 events from Major League Baseball, hockey, soccer and tennis, as well as college sports. The media giant announced the subscription-based service Tuesday alongside a slew of other updates that stemmed from its quarterly earnings report and a $1.58 billion […]
Youth sports organizations need three things to effectively market themselves to their communities: time, money, and experience. But the three things in short supply at most youth sports organizations – many of them run as nonprofits by a handful of volunteer parents – are time, money, and marketing experience. “I’ve spoken with countless coaches and […]
