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Mercer Athletics Cuts Deal With Facebook For Exclusive Men’s Basketball Broadcast

Daniel Tate wants Mercer Athletics to be one of the “trendsetters” when it comes to live streaming sports content. It’s why Mercer recently partnered with Facebook to live stream Tuesday’s men’s basketball game against Davidson at Hawkins Arena, making it the first individual school to broadcast a Division I college athletics event exclusively via Facebook Live. “We […]

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Pittsburgh Steelers Become First NFL Team To Utilize Dartmouth’s Robotic Tackling Dummy

Mobile Virtual Player (MVP) is a motorized and self-righting mobile tackling dummy, which was developed at Dartmouth College. Now it is making its NFL debut with the Pittsburgh Steelers. We covered the MVP last October, during Dartmouth’s eventual run towards a share of the 2015 Ivy League Title. Dartmouth and their head coach, Buddy Teevens, were ahead of the curve in […]

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