Twitter’s sports team is extending beyond conversation curation and delving into content creation during the college football national championship game between Alabama and Georgia with new video features and, yes, an emoji trophy that will exist both in hashtags and as a physical take-home object for the winner. Wanting to prolong the shelf life of […]
The following interview is part of our ongoing Expert Series that asks C-level professionals, team presidents, league executives, athletic directors and other sports influencers about their latest thoughts and insights on new technologies impacting the sports industry. Name: Bill Battle Company: University of Alabama Position: Director of Athletics Bill Battle is in his fourth year as the Director […]
University of Alabama senior Matt Bowen has created and released PA Software, an innovative pitch-analyzing protocol he hopes will bring big league K-Zone functionality to little league backyards. Sports entertainment company Sportvision first introduced K-Zone in 2001. K-Zone is a sophisticated computer system that tracks the trajectory of a baseball relative to the strike zone […]
