NEW YORK — Millions of amateur soccer players have spent countless hours parked on their couches in front of the FIFA video games series, trying to develop academy prospects and avoid Career Mode relegation, all while wondering how they’d fare on a real pitch under such rigorous training and with such closely monitored scrutiny over […]
Esports are coming to colleges across the nation and sooner rather than later. At least 39 American universities currently have varsity esports programs. That means scholarships, facilities and coaches directly supporting esports. At many other schools, esports are clubs with varying levels of institutional support. The University of Utah just became the first school among Power […]
Not a week goes by where we don’t hear about some security issue affecting our finances, our livelihoods, or our privacy. Even our personal safety. Formerly sacred facets of everyday life, such as youth sports, are not immune. For too long, tired volunteer parents pulling double-duty – coach meets dues collector – had the dreaded […]
An Olympic Games occurs only once every two years, so how do ardent fans of Team USA and the Games in general fill that downtime? NBCUniversal wanted to know. So in July, the broadcast giant launched the Olympic Channel across more than 35 million homes in the United States. The new channel, born of a […]
As a high school and college baseball player who had read Ted Williams’ “The Science of Hitting,” Mike Donfrancesco understood the need to elevate the ball. “I had a little bit of pop,” said Donfrancesco, who played at Boston University in the early 1990s, “and I was always trying to hit the ball 20 degrees, […]
