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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Social media blunder costs Tennessee high school football team three wins
The Nashville Tennessean reported Wednesday that Perry County High has been forced to vacate three wins because of a parent's Facebook blunder. Although the incident does not involve a professional sports franchise or major college athletic program, it is significant. MobileSportsReport.com identifies this as the first known incident that information posted on a social media service cost a team Read More>>
The Ongoing Search: What’s the Best Mobile Play-by-Play Service for Football?
There's a whole lot of folks telling you that you can keep up on football games by using your mobile phone -- but how well do the services actually work? In an ongoing search that will probably last all season long, your MSR crew (meaning me) will perform random acts of mobility, following NFL and college games via mobile to see if these services deliver, or if they fall incomplete. Monday Read More>>
Sun Devils implement Fanatic Fans application at USC victory
Arizona State University (ASU) started promoting the use of smart phones for sports social media engagement at its 44-23 victory over USC on Saturday, and plans to continue the program at Oregon, Colorado and California home games. Among other tactics aimed at driving smart phone use, ASU is running contests on its video boards during timeouts that allow attendees to participate in contests. Read More>>
MSR blows “Moneyball” prediction, but big hit still in offing
On Friday, Mobile Sports Report predicted "Moneyball” would surpass box-office predictions. We thought that Hollywood experts underestimated the power of the sports social media community, and figured that a box-office debut North of $23 million was in the offing. We were wrong. "Moneyball” came in second to "The Lion King" in weekend box office, grossing $20.6 million over the weekend. Read More>>
MSR Online Guide: San Francisco 49ers
OK kids, this is a real "beta" work in progress -- but here is our first stab at a comprehensive online guide to all the pertinent links we could find for fans of the San Francisco 49ers, just in time for Sunday's game at Cincinnati. Readers are encouraged to critique, compliment and add to this list -- use the comments field below to tell us of other outlets, more Twitter handles and where Niner Read More>>
“Moneyball” to hit sports social media sweet spot, MSR says
"Moneyball," the Brad Pitt movie about Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, is primed to be one of Hollywood's first sports social-media grandslams. Box office predictions include Rope of Silicon at $21.84 million, while TotalNerd puts the opening at $22.4 million. MobileSportsReport believes the Hollywood pundits have underestimated the power of the growing sports social media community. Read More>>
How to get customized ESPN radio feeds on your smart phone, iPad
Until now, mobile sports fans who wanted to listen to such popular ESPN programming as "Mike and Mike in the Morning," The Herd with Colin Cowherd" and "The Scott Van Pelt Show" couldn't cache the programs on smartphone memory cards. Listening to ESPN radio required a network connection and drew down battery life. A solution to that problem has arrived, for a fee. This week, ESPN went into Read More>>
Colorado State Hoops Goes Big on Twitter
There might not be a media outlet more confused about Twitter than ESPN -- after watching an NFL Gameday "feature" from this past weekend on the league's use of Twitter that could have been filmed a couple years ago (it lightly touched on the Chad Ochocinco non-controversies and then quoted NFL PR exec Greg Aiello as saying Twitter is fun), you then can't find the feature archived anywhere on the Read More>>
