For the second instance in six weeks, global sports e-commerce retailer Fanatics and ride-sharing app Uber are joining forces to leverage both companies’ ‘on-demand’ DNA. This time the commercial partnership is around the Chicago Cubs winning its first World Series championship in 108 years. On Thursday at 10 a.m. local time in Chicago, Uber will deploy close […]
FOX Sports used Facebook Live to stream the sight of Wrigleyville during Game 7 of the World Series, and viewers were rewarded with some emotional footage of Chicago Cubs fans reacting as their team won it all in Cleveland. Then after the final out in a classic 8-7 win against the Cleveland Indians, as television […]
Could balls and strikes in Major League Baseball be soon called by robot umpires? One manager thinks so. Following Game 3 of the World Series on Friday night — where the Cleveland Indians defeated the Chicago Cubs 1-0 — Cubs manager Joe Maddon was asked generally speaking about instant-replays, which included three such instances during […]
Chicago Cubs fan Jason Mollett spent time the day after his team clinched a spot in the World Series setting in motion a plan to have some fun with Cleveland Indians pitcher Trevor Bauer. “I’m a baaaad man,” Mollett wrote on Facebook. “I pulled off an epic troll of the Cleveland Indians.” Mollett went on […]
How did the Chicago Cubs have the best team ERA in baseball during the 2016 regular season? The easy answer is to just take a look at its starting rotation, but off the diamond, the answer might also lie in the club’s use of big data. With the World Series knotted at one game apiece […]
