Diamond Kinetics has expanded beyond its roots as a bat sensor company with a new smart baseball and PitchTracker app to collect data on an athlete’s pitching mechanics. A small sensor is embedded into the core of each baseball and generates six metrics on every throw: velocity, spin rate, extension and three timing data points, […]
The NFL has compiled tracking data on every player’s movement in every game since 2014, but teams used that information so sparingly that it became a running joke among the players, with union executive Ahmad Nassar estimating that 30 of the 32 franchises ignored the data altogether. A key factor holding back the analysis and […]
With so many unsigned free agents, the Major League Baseball Players Association organized a makeshift spring training and a pair of exhibition games against a Japanese baseball team, Japan Railway East, with Thursday’s contest live streamed for fans and scouts to watch. The players’ workouts have been held at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., […]
Sacramento has never hosted the NBA All-Star game, but the Kings have high hopes of doing so in the future because of their new arena — the Golden 1 Center. The team is bidding for Sacramento to host either All-Star weekend in 2022 or 2023, and in order to set the bid apart from others, […]
Every four years, when the Winter Olympics arrive, undoubtedly there are many people who don’t know exactly what every sport is. This year, for PyeongChang 2018, Al Jazeera sought to change that. Using augmented reality, the Qatar-based network showed its viewers how curling, biathlon, skiing and bobsled, among others, actually work, according to a report […]
