Minnesota Twins pitcher Trevor May knows he spends his offseason differently than most of his teammates. By his count, he has logged some 100 hours playing the esports game Fortnite in the past fortnight, with some Overwatch and Clash Royale as well. He’s been deeply immersed in Twitch and its unique culture and shorthand vernacular. […]
With the PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games beginning next month, Samsung has revealed it has given two Dutch short track speedskaters access to the Samsung SmartSuit to try to help them win Olympic gold. A competitive form of speed-skating, short track speed competitions take place on an oval ice track of a circumference of just 364 […]
In August, Floyd Mayweather announced he would be opening a gym franchise where people could get fit using a number of innovative technologies, even training with the undefeated pro boxer in virtual reality and through a companion app. The virtual reality experience is now, well, reality, and “Money” is in your corner. Mayweather Boxing + […]
While baseball is a statistician’s dream with its series of discrete actions across the field, the development of comparable analytics in football is hindered by the complexity of formations and events — what the president of EdjSports has called “a probability atom bomb” — not to mention the scoring of points in varying increments, yet […]
Amazon disclosed the season-ending viewership numbers for its 11-game Thursday Night Football NFL package and claimed victory over Twitter by average-minute audience. The numbers that Amazon provided to SportTechie indicated that the AMA tuning into NFL action on Prime Video for at least 30 seconds was more than 310,000, a number said to be 17 […]
