NEW YORK — American Flag Football League founder Jeff Lewis strongly believes that his new pro football league will work. While that sentiment isn’t new, the technology he is using to showcase flag football is. “If you’re going to respect the fan, then you’re going to use technology,” said Lewis, who had spent the past […]
Major League Baseball and Facebook have partnered on a weekly national telecast of 20 games on Facebook Live this season. The schedule of Friday night games begins this week as the Cincinnati Reds host the Colorado Rockies at 7:10 p.m. ET on the official MLB Facebook page. Additional games will be announced at a later date. […]
For episode 15 of the SportTechie Podcast with Bram Weinstein, Bleacher Report Co-Founder, Dave Finocchio, joins Bram to discuss how B/R started and the ways they intend to remain at the forefront of the media technology in sports. Dave also discusses which tech he believes will grow to become part of the daily content creation across […]
The NFL will no longer have digital streams of live Thursday Night Football games on Twitter this season after reaching agreement with Amazon instead. But that doesn’t mean Twitter won’t be a major player in how the NFL seeks to engage fans. Twitter and the NFL continue to be partners with a “great relationship” after […]
Turn on any high school, college or professional football game and you will see it: helmets crashing into each other and players falling to the ground, slow to get up. There isn’t always blood, but we now know that many of these players are suffering injuries that onlookers can’t always see. Concussions have become nearly […]
