On this episode of the SportTechie Podcast with Bram Weinstein, Scott Anderson, Chief Customer Officer at SyncThink explains how his company is studying brain functioning in athletes to improve performance and detect impairment. The Golden State Warriors recently revealed their use of SyncThink to detect fatigue in addition to concussion symptoms. Plus, Scott and Bram examine […]
Twitter and Major League Baseball renewed their partnership to stream weekly games on the social media platform, moving those broadcasts from Friday nights to weekday afternoons. The 2018 streaming schedule begins Thursday, April 5 as the Oakland Athletics host the Texas Rangers and will be followed Tuesday, April 10 with Tampa Bay Rays at Chicago […]
Company name: Founder(s): Headquarters: Website: 1. What is your elevator pitch? 2. Problem & Solution 3. Market – your target market and the overall market 4. Business Model – how do you make money? 5. Management Team – with titles 6. Financial Needs: are you currently looking for investment? Have you raised investment already? If […]
ESPN announced Monday that its new OTT streaming service, ESPN+, will launch on April 12 featuring live sports, original content and a catalog of on-demand programming. The $4.99-per-month service touted since November and powered by BAMTech — the technology spinoff of Major League Baseball Advanced Media for which Disney outlaid $2.58 billion for a 75-percent […]
As a national baseball writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1998, Jayson Stark had a firsthand view of the home run chase that resurrected post-strike baseball and captured the attention of the country. He was in attendance for 17 of Mark McGwire’s 70 home runs, then a record whose validity was later challenged by suspicions […]
