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April is always the time of eternal optimism for baseball fans. Every team is within contention and even the longest of long shots have hopes that this year will be “The Year”.
Safe to say, history suggests that maintaining fan interest is going to be a challenge for Canada’s only baseball team.
By Simon Ogus – Email | Twitter | Articles The 2012 Major League Baseball season kicked off Wednesday night at new Marlins stadium and it got us thinking about who the best teams are at engaging fans through Twitter. It turns out the Philadelphia Phillies blow away everyone with 679,519 followers while posting just over 4,000 tweets, by far the largest “follower to tweet” ratio in all of MLB. The New York Yankees pace the American league with 554,000 followers, but have a very low tweet count of just fewer than 5,000, which is much less than many other teams. The Houston Astros and the Washington Nationals respectively have the league’s lowest and second-lowest amounts of Twitter followers; the only teams to...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced today its intent to solicit interest from companies interested in obtaining license rights to commercialize, manufacture and market an innovative technology for improving athlete performance. Zeroing Out Negative Effects, or ZONE, is an innovative method for improving athletes’ responses to stress, anxiety and loss of concentration during competition. In […]
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is the first sport to demonstrate the power of streaming live sports from within Facebook – and the league is just getting started. Last January, the UFC showed four preliminary bouts live on Facebook for its Fight for the Troops 2 show. Since then, the league has continued to live stream almost every preliminary fight for […]
Reliable internet access during a sporting event is not only important to the fan experience but also to teams and leagues as they explorer new revenue opportunities. However, building a network that can support that environment is an almost-impossible task. Last March, even Mark Cuban admitted that the day of Wi-Fi for fan use in […]
