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Rise Science Adds Alabama Football To Growing Sleep Coaching List

Alabama football continues to be a leader in sports science and technology with the recent addition of sleep-coaching program Rise Science for the 2017 season. Rise announced Alabama as its latest client on Thursday after adding the Crimson Tide’s title game opponent the past two seasons, Clemson, two weeks ago. The perennial powerhouse program of […]

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DirecTV Now Adds More Sports With CBS, Is NFL Sunday Ticket Next?

More than eight months after the launch of DirecTV Now, parent company AT&T announced Monday it would begin to roll out CBS Networks on the growing internet-based television service and provide more sports for cord-cutters using it. CBS had been a glaring omission for DirecTV Now, and it brings to viewers the NFL on CBS — […]

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Monumental Sports Network Provides Fans With Multi-Angle Video Player

Imagine watching a basketball game as if you were laying on the hardwood, or seeing an arena football game the way the quarterback sees the field. Those experiences are now a reality with the recent partnership between the Monumental Sports Network, and Kiswe Mobile, an interactive video streaming platform. The deal is a first for a […]

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Rapsodo Debuts At MLB-Sanctioned Scouting Showcases

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 […]

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How VR Free Throw Reps Helped Washington Wizards’ Ian Mahinmi

Virtual reality technology company STRIVR seems to have helped $64 million man Ian Mahinmi and his free throw woes last season. Though his overall percentage fell from 58.7 percent in the 2015-16 season to 57.3 percent in his injury-riddled 2016-17 season, Mahinmi’s free throw percentage was more than 30 points higher during the weeks he […]

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