The elite high school prospects participating in the inaugural Prospect Development Pipeline series of showcases and tournaments — a collaboration of USA Baseball and Major League Baseball — will have access to advanced tracking metrics thanks to a new partnership with Rapsodo. While TrackMan radars are installed at all 30 major league ballparks, as well as […]
The Secret Service announced Wednesday it would conduct a test to evaluate a tethered drone during President Donald Trump’s scheduled visit later this month to his residence at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. The primary purpose of using a tethered drone is to provide sustained situational awareness and improve the Secret Service’s […]
The Associated Press has partnered with crowd-sourcing app Scorestream to report high school sports scores on its media wire. The news wire of record in the U.S. made a splash last year after announcing a collaboration with Automated Insights, which the AP uses to generate short computer-written recaps of minor league baseball games. That deal was […]
Driving Catapult Sports’ acquisition of Playertek last year was the chance to crack into not only the amateur market but also lower rungs of professional sports. Louisville City FC of the United Soccer League recently joined the latter ranks a month ago. Playertek is a GPS-enabled, sensor-embedded device much like the elite Catapult harness but […]
NFL coaches have made a habit of decrying the practice restrictions implemented by the collective bargaining agreement that went into effect before the 2011 season which, at least according to talk radio pundits, has been the culprit for a perceived deterioration in quality of play. For entrepreneurs Jim Pietila and Carlson Bull of Maryland-based Mixed […]
