IQ Sport Advisory Group has recently published a survey in mTurk to find out how sports fans use digital and social media content during sports events. From this, they got in touch with more than 100 fans and asked about their habits and sore points. As it turned out, 60% of interviewees use social media […]
In late May, about 6,000 researchers met in Orlando, Florida for the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine. They discussed all kinds of topics from genetics to marathon performance to sports science in the performing arts.
One topic that I didn’t expect to encounter at the conference was motor sports. But it makes perfect sense that the riders in motocross events, who zip around dirt tracks aboard motorcycles, making hard turns, and high jumps while enveloped in safety gear would qualify as athletes.
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Technology and sports seem to collide more and more each day–instant replay, stadium experience, and performance have all been impacted. But technology may be impacting sports in a subtle way as well: through the men and women handing out the paychecks.
In the wake of Donald Sterling’s downfall, Steve Ballmer has made a bid to purchase the Los Angeles Clippers. This sale will put Ballmer, former Microsoft Chief Executive Officer, within a growing crowd: techies who have found a second life in major sports.
Imagine being stuck in a foreign country where you don’t speak the language (Chinese), don’t know anyone, and have a broken leg so you can’t get around very easily. Not much fun, right? That’s not what Co-Founder Steve Selfors, will tell you. Selfors was in exactly that situation in China when he came up with a […]
Parking invariably presents problems to sports fans whenever attending a game. It’s something that has to be planned out beforehand, or risk finding a spot and dealing with traffic in the process. The cumbersome prices that escalate based on the event or arriving closer to tip-off makes it an unpleasant expenditure all the way around. […]
