Perennial Premier League contender Tottenham Hotspur is intent on making its new London stadium among the world’s most technologically advanced to improve in-game entertainment and keep fans as connected to the outside world as they want. The football club announced this week that it has contracted with Hewlett Packard Enterprise on this endeavor, wiring the […]
Four years ago, when David Cavossa was still running a division of a defense contractor in northern Virginia, he was dining with Jacob Ward, a lifelong pal from Massachusetts who was running a trade association for app companies. Ward was extolling the concept of on-demand labor that was powering Uber as the car service was […]
A new delegation showed up to the Maccabiah Games in Israel on Wednesday, displaying its skills in the sports tech marketplace instead of on the playing field. For the first time in its history, the Maccabiah Games—the quadrennial Olympic-style sports competition for Jewish athletes around the world—welcomed a group of ten Israeli sports tech startups […]
The future stars of Australian swimming are getting coached, not only in technique, but in technology that could help them achieve further success in the pool. At the beginning of July, Swimming Australia, the nation’s governing body for competitive swimming, announced its “NextGEN” team of 22 rising teenage swimmers. Those teens recently attended a camp from […]
Minnesota Twins reliever Ryan O’Rourke grew up in Worcester, Mass., and pitched at St. John’s, a state athletic powerhouse brimming with so many recruits that he only threw 18 innings as a junior and senior. He canvassed the whole gamut of opportunities for exposure, emailing 10 college baseball coaches every week, traveling to showcases and […]
