Have you ever watched ESPN’s First Take and thought, “What Stephen A. Smith just said is crazy! I’ve got a better take than that.” It’s safe to assume just about everyone has had that thought cross their mind. Luckily, ESPN is debuting a program called First Take: Your Take (FTYT) via Facebook Watch that directly incorporates your takes. Set to […]
Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry provided some more star power to the Coral Sword Games Cafe, a Houston coffee shop for gamers that is being opened up by San Francisco Giants outfielder Hunter Pence and his wife Alexis. Curry stopped by last week before the Warriors faced the Houston Rockets to play Mario Kart […]
Victor Cruz, the 31-year-old former New York Giants wide receiver, spoke earlier this month at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas about how the consumption of sports content among players is changing, and it didn’t necessarily sound good for ESPN. “I think it’s all on their phones,” Cruz said. “I think it’s all on […]
The Associated Press continues to incorporate automation into its global sports coverage by partnering with Arkadium on the use of its InHabit artificial intelligence tool to generate interactive content into pro and college football and college basketball stories. Arkadium’s patent-pending technology will ingest articles on AP’s news wire and incorporate an interactive data visualization, or […]
Twitter, Gatorade and Intersport announced on Wednesday that #TheDebut, a first-of-its-kind livestream broadcast on Twitter, will feature eight high school basketball games, including some of the top players in the country. The live coverage begins on Friday from South Carolina with Shannon Forest Christian vs. Spartanburg Day School, which is led by a buzzworthy star player […]
