FLAGSHIP SERIES: STADIUM TECH REPORTS
Introducing: The Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey!
To all stadium, arena, ballpark, race track, concert-hall, convention-center, airport, casino and other large public venue owners, operators and administrators and deployers of connectivity technology: We need you! That is, we need you to take our Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey, a vehicle designed to find out "where we're at, and where we're going" when it comes to connectivity technology and the business Read More>>
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Jack Nicklaus: 50 Years After his First U.S. Open Title, USGA Honors Golf’s Greatest Player
This year's U.S. Open marks the 50th anniversary of Jack Nicklaus' 18-hole playoff victory over Arnold Palmer in the 1962 U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club. It was Nicklaus' first professional title and the event through the years has endured as one of golf's great moments. To celebrate the half century, the United States Golf Association (USGA) honored Nicklaus during the final day of Read More>>
Tiger Doesn’t Like Fans With Cell Phones, Either
Tiger Woods offered an unsolicited opinion on fans with cellular phones, telling ESPN reporter Tom Rinaldi that if the Tiger-Phil-Bubba pairing was done in a regular tour event -- where fans are allowed to have cell phones this year -- "it would have been brutal." Rinaldi, who we think interviewed Tiger after his mass press conference Tuesday (we saw Rinaldi waiting for Tiger outside the press Read More>>
MSR Profile: San Francisco Giants, AT&T Continue to Push the Wireless Envelope at AT&T Park
It's fun to look back at the news from 2004 to see just how novel an idea it was to put a Wi-Fi network into a ballpark. "SBC Park a hot spot for fans lugging laptops," said an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, complete with a photo of a fan hunched over a laptop. According to the story, some 200 fans per game might have used the network right after it was launched. Woo-hoo! Fast forward Read More>>
ESPN’s Soccer Push Pays off with Euro 2012 Viewership
ESPN has reported preliminary numbers for its UEFA Euro 2012 broadcasts and it is showing the sports giant that there is great potential in the sport. The opening match for the Group C teams Italy and Spain, both powerful squads, garnered an average of 2.1 million viewers. While in terms of other major American sports this might not be that impressive but it, along with results from the Premier Read More>>
Crowdfunding Site Indiegogo Closes $15 million Series A Funding Round
Indiegogo, company that understands from firsthand experience the challenges and disappointment that can come from trying to get a project funded has taken that experience and has moved into the crowdfunding space, with a hefty financial infusion from some major players in the VC space. The latest player in the increasingly crowdfunding field has some funding of its own to brag about after Read More>>
Not-so-Mobile Sports Report: U.S. Open Notebook, and The Beast that is No. 16
A quick disclaimer: Even though we are Mobile Sports Report, where we are "aggressively covering the growing intersection of sports, mobile technology and social media," at our hearts we are sports fans first and when given entree to an event like the U.S. Open, well we just can't help ourselves. So here is a not-so-necessarily Mobile Sports Report notebook on fun and interesting stuff we saw and Read More>>
Tiger Woods Returns to the Olympic Club 14 Years Later, Discovers the Old Course is a New Course
Tiger Woods is among 20 players competing in the U.S. Open at the Olympic Club this week who also played in the event the last time the tournament visited the historic course just south of San Francisco in 1998. Woods, of course, has competed on courses around the world since. But the buzz as the opening round of the United States' 112th National Championship approaches is that few courses are Read More>>
NBA Pros Stephen Curry, Brandon Jennings Will ‘Hang Out’ on PlayUp App During NBA Finals
Fan interaction app PlayUp has announced that it will be hosting a couple NBA pros -- the Golden State Warriors' Stephen Curry and Milwaukee Bucks' Brandon Jennings -- who will "hang out" in special PlayUp chat rooms during the NBA Finals. Up first tonight is Golden State's Curry, "hanging out" in a virtual room on the PlayUp app. If you've never tried PlayUp the pro player rooms are a good Read More>>
