Sports

Every July 4th, we remember George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, the hallowed presidents etched into Mount Rushmore. What if we replace the four men with the most influential people of our generation? Introducing the ‘Millennial Mount Rushmore.’ There you have it. Mark Zuckerberg, LeBron James, Lena Dunham and Justin Timberlake are the four most influential people of Continue Reading →

ESPN will kill ESPN 3D by the end of the year. The ill-fated 3D sports channel that started as an experiment in 2010 won’t be broadcast in any dimensions soon. This is huge news considering the significant investment that TV manufacturers and broadcasters have put forth in an effort to bolster the struggling tech. We Continue Reading →

Verizon is close to taking the lid off a four-year, $1B extension of its NFL rights. The deal, which will allow Verizon to stream every NFL regular-season and playoff game to mobile phones, should forever obliterate the distinction between sponsor and media-rights deals. Its previous deal gave Verizon subscribers access to live games schedules from Continue Reading →

Soon, NFL players will have a better way to see what happened on the last play than tilting their heads back to check out the scoreboard. The National Football League announced a partnership with Microsoft, through which coaches and officials will use Microsoft’s Surface tablets on the sidelines, potentially replacing coaches’ laminated playbooks and Polaroid Continue Reading →

FIFA may be implementing goal-sensing technology in international soccer games, but the World Cup is getting even more high-tech with military robot security. iRobot announced today $7.2 million in contracts to provide Brazil with military PackBot robots for security at the 2014 World Cup. PackBots have been deployed to Afghanistan, Iraq, and even inside Japan’s Continue Reading →

When Time Warner’s Turner Broadcasting unit puts on its annual upfront event in New York Wednesday morning, they’ll do so with one sure revenue draw they didn’t expect to tout so soon… until last week. Their sure draw, in this case, subtracts one sure draw from CBS and its broadcast affiliates, whose mothership hits its Continue Reading →

Arizona senator John McCain, introduced legislation that would force cable operators and other TV providers to split up their so-called programming bundles and instead offer TV shows in smaller, more affordable packages and as a la carte channels. His legislation, called the Television Consumer Freedom Act, also would require sports leagues that use publicly financed Continue Reading →

If you’ve ever thought that going to the bathroom was just too boring and needed some kind of game to make things more interesting, you might want to take a trip to Pennsylvania. The Lehigh Valley IronPigs, a minor league baseball team of the Philadelphia Phillies, recently unveiled plans to bring a pee-controlled video game Continue Reading →

Apple and Yahoo are believed to be discussing a closer partnership for the iPhone, iPad and Siri that would open up more of Yahoo’s data, such as sports and news, The Wall Street Journal reports. While sources told the paper that the deal wasn’t imminent, they did note that talks were taking place. Apple’s iOS Continue Reading →

As the millions of Americans who watch NFL games every Sunday know, one the biggest issues facing the league right now is the rise of concussions and head trauma. Last season, the NFL brought in third-party neurological consultants to make sure that coaches don’t let concussed players re-enter the game too soon. Players are tested Continue Reading →