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>>
All MSR Blog Posts
Four Signs Your Bracket Has Gone to Hell
I like the Funny or Die Tournament Challenge Challenged video, even if I don't know who all the stars are in it. It's embedded below, so have a watch. Before that though, I can offer four signs that your bracket has gone to hell. Today is Wednesday, when all brackets are shiny and clean. But tomorrow, the carnage starts. And here are some of the reasons why: 1. "Your Team" went one-and-done. Read More>>
Tweet for Cash: Belmont Bruins Have an NCAA Twitter Contest
I am guessing you will want to be living in the Nashville area or be a Belmont alum to be interested -- but the 14 seed Belmont Bruins are celebrating their return to the NCAA men's basketball tournament with a Twitter contest that will give tickets and other schwag worth $300 to the fan who "produces the most creative (as well as clean and positive) Tweet while Belmont is alive in the NCAA Read More>>
Fab Melo Blows Up Twitter; Should You Blow Up Your Bracket?
That smoke you are smelling is the aroma from ESPN's website servers, cooking at full temperature as everyone changes their brackets to downgrade Syracuse after the Fab Melo news today. Even before the tournament has started, it's clear that Twitter will be the de facto "news wire" for updates of all kinds: scores, injuries, missed shots and inevitably, academic eligibility questions like Read More>>
Mobile Bracket Apps: ESPN’s Rocks, Which One are You Using?
Being old enough to remember the days when we had to sketch out NCAA brackets by hand, do a bunch of photocopying and then massive all-night scores tabulations for hoops pools, I can only sit back and wonder where technology has brought us... to having my bracket live on my phone. As an ESPN bracket user (please join our bracket challenge) I noticed today after downgrading my Syracuse picks Read More>>
A Two-Part Tablet? Sony Says Why Not?
Not sure how I missed AT&T’s introduction of the Sony Tablet P last week, but I did. While there has been a ton of news in the mobile world about a variety of products from the latest Pad to all of the products shown in Barcelona, the Tablet P is a bit different. The reason for this is that it is a hybrid, but not like say, the Samsung Note that is a cross between a tablet and a smartphone. Read More>>
Timeout Tuesday: Here’s Your Time-wasting Sports Videos
Who doesn't want a dunk fiesta to start your Tuesday off right? What better way to start than with a Derrick Rose tomahawk, courtesy of the turnstile defense of the Knicks Monday night: How about golf? Poor Tiger Woods got the O.J. Simpson treatment Sunday with the TV cameras following his car as he left the course after withdrawing because of an Achilles injury. But did you catch him on Read More>>
It’s Madness Time: Join the MSR Bracket, Follow the NIT @ ESPN
Is anyone getting any work done today, or is everyone filling out brackets? If you are looking for a place to show the world your NCAA hoops savvy look no farther than the inaugural MSR Bracket Challenge. Hosted over at ESPN, of course, the group is public so come one come all. If you are searching for the group its title is the "MSR Bracket Challenge." We'll think of some cool prize for winning; Read More>>
MLS embracing Social Media
Major League Soccer has kicked off its season last weekend with it its new broadcasting deal with partner NBC. You might have missed the broadcasts because it seems that people are missing NBC Sports a good deal these days leading to very bad ratings. NBC’s woes might not go away soon due to the fact that the MLS has not yet broken through as a ratings driver. Its troubles in this area are Read More>>
