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Jun 14, 2018

How to Watch the 2018 U.S. Open and the Tech to Keep an Eye On

Assuming you’re not making the trip to Shinnecock Hills, here’s how to watch the action from the 2018 U.S. Open. And what new broadcast technologies to keep an eye out...

Jun 14, 2018

How to Watch the 2018 U.S. Open and the Tech to Keep an Eye On

Assuming you’re not making the trip to Shinnecock Hills, here’s how to watch the action from the 2018 U.S. Open. And what new broadcast technologies to keep an eye out...

Sep 21, 2017

MLB’s Statcast Earns Technology Emmy Award

Major League Baseball’s revolutionary Statcast technology has earned a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for its collection and broadcast of advanced tracking statistics. The Emmy will be jointly presented to all three members of the Statcast triumvirate: TrackMan, which provides its Doppler radars; ChyronHego, which offers both an optical-tracking system (called TRACAB) and broadcast visualization tools; […]

Sep 18, 2017

Trevor Bauer, Driveline Baseball Pioneer Data-Driven Pitch Design

Baseball history is awash with stories of pitchers adding new pitches to their repertoire by the same rote method: a teammate or coach suggests a grip, the pitcher fiddles with the ball until he gets a good feel and then he debuts his new offering in a game. This is addition by anecdote, a happenstance […]

Nov 01, 2016

University Of Alabama Student’s Pitch Analyzer Software Calls Balls, Strikes With Smartphone

University of Alabama senior Matt Bowen has created and released PA Software, an innovative pitch-analyzing protocol he hopes will bring big league K-Zone functionality to little league backyards. Sports entertainment company Sportvision first introduced K-Zone in 2001. K-Zone is a sophisticated computer system that tracks the trajectory of a baseball relative to the strike zone […]