On Monday afternoon, the NFL and CBS announced an expansion of their streaming agreement. The deal includes game streaming access via mobile devices for CBS All Access and paid TV subscribers....
Three new original shows are coming to the Yahoo Sports app. Oath, Verizon’s media content engine powered by the AOL and Yahoo brands, announced this week that it is adding 10 new shows, including three Yahoo Sports shows, to its slate of mobile content. The sports-related content will be hosted by retired athletes, including two-time Olympic […]
NBA All-Stars Anthony Davis and Bradley Beal spent time at All-Star Weekend shooting hoops while sporting VR goggles. Despite the goggles and helmet-mounted camera, the shots they were making were real. It was meant to be a demonstration of the power of Verizon’s fast, low-latency 5G network. With live video being sent through the 5G […]
There may be no better setting to test out network capabilities than the Super Bowl. During Sunday’s big game at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Verizon quietly put its new 5G network connection to the test. Designed to deliver faster speeds and a crisper connection, guests at the Super Bowl and in New York City […]
Here are the top seven technology areas that impacted the NFL this season: 1. Football tracking In the fourth year of its five-year deal with the NFL, Zebra Technologies was able to place in tracking chips in all game balls. That enables the gathering of data including the velocity and rotation rate of the football. […]
