It’s been nearly 100 years since eight Chicago White Sox players were accused of intentionally throwing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds. Since then, player salaries have increased exponentially throughout professional sports, reducing incentives to intentionally lose a game. But the same can’t be said for unpaid collegiate athletes, raising concerns about how […]
Fans who watched the Houston Astros play their World Series home games won’t just have memories of this season’s championship. Each of the more than 43,000 people who packed Minute Maid Park over the weekend can also get a high-resolution image of themselves at the game via Fancam. The company, which first partnered with the […]
Game 4 of the World Series featured some good old postseason baseball with a tech-savvy twist. While the Los Angeles Dodgers pulled out all the stops to even the Series against the Houston Astros at two games apiece, Astros shortstop Carlos Correa had a message for every fan at Minute Maid Park with MLB’s Ballpark […]
It was a Saturday in Houston, and a small girl with a robotic hand was walking onto the field to throw a pitch in front of thousands of cheering fans packed into Minute Maid Park. Hailey Dawson, a 7-year-old girl born who was born with a rare disease called Poland Syndrome that causes birth defects […]
Fox Sports is undertaking an extraordinary technical effort to capture every sight and sound of the 117th World Series and concoct a few of its own visual creations to aid fans’ understanding of the strike zone. The World Series begins Tuesday, Oct. 24 — the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers are each one […]
