When New York Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia was growing up in the Bay Area, he was about eight years old when his childhood hero, Oakland A’s ace Dave Stewart, visited his local Boys & Girls Club — a moment that the younger man cherishes to this day and says inspired his own dedication to giving […]
Pro football all-time leading rusher Emmitt Smith has been leveraging his fame to connect people with telecommunications giant AT&T. His latest endeavor involves a relatively new AT&T-backed startup called Aira. Aira, founded in 2014, is the creator of smart eyewear for blind and visually impaired people. Aira makes glasses with a sensory button on the […]
The growing tide of Australian sporting clubs leaping into esports shows no signs of slowing down with Hyundai A-League team Melbourne City FC becoming the first major football club in Australia to sign an official FIFA esports player. Melbourne City’s acquisition of Victorian-based Marcus Gomes, a 20-year-old FIFA fanatic, local football player and esports competitor […]
Blast Motion, a company that provides sensor-based motion capture technology, has partnered with EXOS to provide high school baseball athletes at the EXOS Baseball Academy with a more data-driven, analytical approach to training. At the event, Blast Motion and EXOS will introduce real-time training insights and swing analytics Sept. 23–24 at Fieldhouse USA in Frisco, Texas […]
NEW YORK — DribbleUp founder Eric Forkosh theorizes that Americans lag behind the rest of the world in soccer because youth in this country have less access to quality training and less emphasis on regular drills — and he offers a simple, portable solution. In the back room of Long Island City coffee shop Sweetleaf, […]
