Stanford’s athletics program is looking to become carbon neutral with a new initiative led by junior track and cross country runner Emma Fisher, according to The Stanford Daily. Fisher, a member of the group Students for Sustainable Stanford (SSS), began researching the carbon footprint caused by her team’s travel, and then every other team at […]
Yesterday, the NCAA Division I Council changed two major rules surrounding the role of recruitment in college football. The first saw that college programs are no longer allowed to have satellite camps outside of their range of influence. The second change overturned the ban on electronic communication between coaches and players that was established in […]
Conventional statistics are no longer enough for sports in the über-advanced twenty-first century. While it was once sufficient to track just batting average and home runs in baseball, analysts now turn to metrics like fielding independent pitching and batting average on balls in play to judge how well players are performing. Similarly, in basketball, player speed, […]
With the last weekend of March Madness quickly approaching the NCAA announced a partnership with Samsung, to live stream the Final Four and National Championship in Virtual Reality, for the first time ever. This announcement comes on the heels of Fox partnering with NextVR, which gave fans the opportunity to watch the Big East Tournament in VR. Get […]
Degree Deodorant is partnering with the NCAA to conduct a series of fan movement studies at the 2016 Final Four in Houston. A sponsor of the NCAA, Degree will use Lightwave, a new bio-analytics technology that examines everything from buzzer beater reaction to crowd unison movement of “The Wave”. “The energy at the Final Four […]
