The Wings and the Mercury will tip off the 2018 WNBA season tonight in the same week that the U.S. Supreme Court moved to legalize sports gambling. And what happens with the WNBA might indicate what a deeper integration of sports and betting might look like in America. On Thursday, the WNBA and FanDuel extended […]
The WNBA season will tip off this Friday in Arizona with a matchup between the Dallas Wings and the Phoenix Mercury. Ahead of that contest, WNBA president Lisa Borders chatted with Bram about the future of the league, sports consumption, and much more on this episode of the SportTechie Podcast with Bram Weinstein. You can subscribe to […]
The WNBA is reupping its streaming partnership with Twitter for a second season. The league announced plans this week to livestream 20 games on the social media app over the 2018 regular season. The first four of those games will be streamed on Sunday, May 20, during the league’s opening weekend. Coverage will tip off […]
The NBA has partnered with Headspace to provide all league and team employees across the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League and its NBA 2K esports league access to the meditation and mindfulness app. In exchange, the NBA will codevelop mental training content with Headspace this summer designed to prepare athletes at all levels for competition, which […]
Minnesota Lynx players are quick to credit Noah Basketball with helping them, as earlier this month they went on to win their fourth WNBA Championship. Noah isn’t a new assistant to head coach Cheryl Reeve; it’s an interactive computer system that has refined the team’s shooting accuracy. Installed above a basket’s rim, the system records […]
