Have you ever watched ESPN’s First Take and thought, “What Stephen A. Smith just said is crazy! I’ve got a better take than that.” It’s safe to assume just about everyone has had that thought cross their mind. Luckily, ESPN is debuting a program called First Take: Your Take (FTYT) via Facebook Watch that directly incorporates your takes. Set to […]
BOSTON — Those at the 2017 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference this past weekend who didn’t know who Rajiv Maheswaran and Second Spectrum were surely do now. The CEO of data company Second Spectrum, which was recently named the NBA’s new optical tracking partner starting next season, began his panel discussion titled Panel Tracking Data and the Fan by […]
Tout was put on the map with a simple video from Shaquille O’Neal announcing to the world that he was retiring from the game of basketball. Now it has become a social media tool used by many sports personalities like College game day’s Chris Fowler, Fox Sport’s Erin Andrews, sport’s analyst Michael Strahan, and NFL Insider Adam Schefter. Tout is quickly becoming the go-to tool for quick interactive news. In a recent article on Forbes.com, O’Neal, praised Tout, and said he believes social media is going to lead the rest of the media in breaking news.
