NBA commissioner Adam Silver spoke Thursday before Game 1 of the NBA Finals from Oracle Arena, which is home to one of the most tech-minded teams in the Golden State Warriors. The league knows the area well, given its many partnerships with leading tech companies that have their headquarters nearby in Silicon Valley. “I think […]
With the Champions Trophy kicking off this week, Intel has announced a new partnership with the International Cricket Council (ICC) to provide a host of new in-game data points to fans watching live broadcasts of the games from this event. On the pitch during the competition, Intel will be using its coin-sized Curie compute module that […]
Netflix isn’t getting into live sports, and CEO Reed Hastings has a fairly simple way of explaining why an entertainment company wouldn’t look to do so. “Sports is really good in the moment. So you want to watch the game, but the afterlife of a given show is quite small,” Hastings said Wednesday at Recode’s […]
For the 2017 NFL season, Zebra Sports will enter into the third consecutive year of deploying its RFID tracking Sports Solution into players’ shoulder pads but now it’ll include additional layers through a new relationship with Kinduct, a data and analytics software provider that helps sports teams make informed decisions. Despite it being year three of Zebra […]
The Arena Football League announced Thursday that it will stream five regular season games on Twitter this season. The games are available globally to logged-in and logged-out users at afl.twitter.com or on @AFLarenaball. The streaming begins Saturday when the Baltimore Brigade take on the Tampa Bay Storm. The five-team league will have four of its teams […]
