Horse racing is on the brink of being a sport to benefit massively from technology and sports science. As so often is discovered, technology is only as good as the benefit it provides to the end user. It’s no good having a telescope if you don’t know where the stars are. But how do you […]
Concussions have never been more prominent in professional sports. Across the NBA, NFL, NHL and most professional leagues, concussion protocol is a standard for its athletes. Thanks to a recent partnership between the University of Kentucky (UK) and the Jockeys’ Guild, concussion protocol development will be in full effect for horse jockeys. Yesterday’s partnership announced a “three-year […]
Have you ever wanted to see what your favorite player sees on the field? Do you ever wish to be taken into their world for a bit of time to feel the adrenaline they feel while competing? Believe it or not, this alternative reality you desire to live in for a brief moment does exist…for […]
Last Saturday’s Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs broke a new single-sporting event wireless traffic record–of its own, at that–with over five Terabytes and upwards of 474 Gigabytes within AT&T’s network for the 290,000 fans in attendance–about 15.3 million social media posts and videos worth of mobile data consumption. Considering that the venue has been around […]
Gambling. Horse racing. Two vices intertwined in Americana lore through the ages… Yet, it’s the only legal way to gamble online in more than half of the 50 states, 37 total, to be exact. The misplaced dichotomy of potential decline could be drawn from when online poker was extirpated in 2011. The U.S. Justice Department […]
