Prior to last season, when a University of Alabama football player was injured in a game, he would be rushed to the sidelines and instantly a flurry of cameras would surround him. Seemingly, the more a player would grimace at the amount of pain that they were in, the closer the cameras would come. So, […]
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 […]
For as long as sports have been the world’s primary source of entertainment, their officials — from umpires to referees to judges — have made (or neglected to make) subjective calls, which regularly cause discord throughout the sports world. The introduction of large-scale instant replay in recent years, though, has done much to alleviate this […]
Last week, the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) announced that they would begin using a replay command center during the 2016 football season. The system, which is under experimental rule for the 2016 season, allows all games played at ACC venues, and Notre Dame, to conference with instant replay headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina throughout the […]
Safety in football has taken on unprecedented levels of scrutiny in recent times, and for good reason. Impacts of repeated blows to the head have proven to be extremely detrimental to a player’s long-term health and it has caused the NFL to re-evaluate its rules and many companies to try and develop more advanced football […]
