As the NBA Playoffs enter the last round, The Finals, the spotlight brightens for the two teams remaining. The pulse of fans’ league-wide interest for the game–regardless if their team is still playing or not–reverberates through what’s trending on Twitter. The magnitude only increases, placing a premium on accessibility and unobstructed connectivity. Yet, it’s as […]
Well before Bud Selig began his long reign as Commissioner of Major League Baseball, his roots as a Milwaukee Brewers fan have always been at the core of everything he has accomplished. Selig’s political skills imbued the decisions he had to make throughout his tenure as a gatekeeper for the game of baseball, be it […]
Last Saturday’s Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs broke a new single-sporting event wireless traffic record–of its own, at that–with over five Terabytes and upwards of 474 Gigabytes within AT&T’s network for the 290,000 fans in attendance–about 15.3 million social media posts and videos worth of mobile data consumption. Considering that the venue has been around […]
As the Golden State Warriors prolong their season-long dominance into the NBA postseason, the battle between StubHub and Ticketmaster brews under the surface–one in which presents potential, drastic effects going forward in the sports ticket marketplace. The reseller versus the original seller. The former company confines a scalper’s ability to drive up the retail prices […]
March Madness is upon us, and there’s a plethora of storylines in this years’ NCAA Tournament. Can Frank Kaminsky and Wisconsin finally win it all for the first time in 70 years? Will freshman phenoms Jahlil Okafor and Tyus Jones steal the show? Will John Calipari’s Wildcats become the first team to go 40-0? The […]
