By Taylor Bloom – Email Taylor is a native southern Californian sports enthusiast who will be graduating from UCLA in June with a degree in Communications. Growing up in San Diego, he has spent his life rooting against Los Angeles Sports teams. During his free time Taylor is found playing chess and ping-pong and rooting for the Lakers’ opponent. Attention all bleacher bums, face-painters, and foam-finger-wavers! The future of buying tickets for your favorite sports team is here. Heard of Groupon? Imagine a website similar to Groupon but completely focused on bringing you the best daily sports deals available. Crowd Seats, an idea built by 24-year-old Rutgers graduate, Justin Cener, is a website that offers quality seats to quality professional sports games....
By Simon Ogus – Email | Twitter | Articles Last week, we explored how actively Major League Baseball teams use Twitter. With the NHL playoff s starting up this week, its a great ime to see how the two sports compare. The findings are a bit surprising, to say the least, considering how much more media attention is given to the MLB compared to the NHL. While there is no current NHL team with as many Twitter followers as the Phillies or Yankees, overall the league does a much better job promoting their Twitter accounts than MLB. The NHL had eleven teams with over 100k followers, while MLB had only nine. The most striking difference between the two leagues is the...
Health risks are a serious occupational hazard for professional athletes. Injuries can occur without warning and bring once-promising careers to an abrupt end. Their effects can also worsen over time and cause damage that lasts the rest of a player’s life. Head injuries, in particular, are suspected to bring on a wide range of neurological […]
