Sports

It’s a lonely, disappointed, and sometimes all too familiar feeling for a pickup baller: Shoes laced tight, jump-shot warmed up, game-face on … but just empty blacktop and not another player in sight. The app InfiniteHoops, however, wants to make sure you never have to live through such trauma again. Originally launched as a barebones Continue Reading →

An NFL replacement referee was pulled from the officiating crew of a game on Sunday morning due to a Facebook photo he posted of himself decked out in a hat and sweatshirt supporting one of the teams involved. Now, the league says it’s reviewing social media use the temporary referees who are overseeing games while Continue Reading →

The Kansas City Chiefs didn’t know who they were messing with when a team staffer sent a brusque Twitter message to a disgruntled fan who had vented about the team’s ownership on the social network this week. It all started on Monday, when decades-long Chiefs supporter Travis Wright, who uses the Twitter handle @teedubya, was Continue Reading →

Nike has always been like Chubbs was to Happy Gilmore, helping you improve your golf game. But now it wants to do it digitally—it just earned a patent to put data-collecting sensors in clubs that would track your swing. In one form, an analysis of your swing would be shown on a screen located on Continue Reading →

With a passionate fan base, brand-building religious affiliation and nationally renowned football program that operates as an independent free of responsibilities to a particular conference, Brigham Young University has a lot to build on from a sports marketing perspective. But just in time for football season, the school turned a new corner in leveraging its Continue Reading →

I have Android Jelly Bean on both my GSM Galaxy Nexus and Verizon Galaxy Nexus devices and just noticed an update to Google Search appeared in the Google Play Store. This update adds a few things for Jelly Bean users, in particular more control over your favorite sports teams and movie time support. You can Continue Reading →

26 teams from around the world are currently competing in the FIRA RoboWorld Cup. They are taking part in a range of games, including football, basketball and weightlifting. It is the first time that the event has been hosted in the UK and organisers say that they have had a record number of entries. The Continue Reading →

As much as we love baseball, the coolest thing about tonight’s game between the Detroit Tigers and the Toronto Blue Jays won’t be the action on the field at Comerica Park, but the robot throwing the first pitch. The robo-pitcher, appropriately named Cy-ber Young, could be far more interesting than the Tigers’ Anibal Sanchez or Continue Reading →

***There’s considerable furor at the people with oversight of this fall’s Presidential Debates over the absence of moderators of color. Various diversity-minded organizations from the NAACP to Univision spearhead the furor-raising – and they have a good point. Given we’re on the road to a multicultural majority in this nation and the fact that we’re Continue Reading →

The 2012 Olympics in London generated 150 million tweets and Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt ran away with a big share of them, according to Twitter. The social network, assessing the 16-day event, found that Bolt’s 200m and 100m races prompted the most chatter during the Games. The former netted more than 80,000 tweets per minute Continue Reading →