Stanford has sent many players to New York for the Heisman Trophy ceremony. In the last eight years, they’ve all come up just short. There was Toby Gerhart in 2009, Andrew Luck in 2010 and 2011, and Christian McCaffrey in 2015, all three finished second in the voting. Gerhart and McCaffrey finished behind Alabama running […]
SYDNEY — College football returned down under for a second straight year, providing Australian gridiron fans with a world-class fan experience as the Stanford Cardinal faced off with the Rice Owls at Allianz Stadium for the Sydney College Football Cup. The college football season opener saw 33,000 passionate fans treated to a game-day experience that included […]
Stanford University’s athletic department is utilizing virtual reality across a number of sports in an effort to enhance athletic performance and engage with fans. Most notably, Stanford’s fencing team made an interactive video that features a fencer fighting the viewer. In it, a virtual reality rig is set up facing the fencer as he or […]
Two major college teams will use technology to improve practices this season, and more could soon follow. GoRout, which provides small, wearable screens that enable coaches to wirelessly send plays and information to players on the practice field, says it has signed deals with both Kansas State and Stanford, and that it hopes to add several […]
Living outside of your teams coverage area can be a challenging aspect of being a sports fan. In the last few years ESPN has drastically increased the number of games available on national broadcast and MLB has made great strides with its At Bat app to make your favorite team available anywhere you may be with an internet connection.
