football
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The Cutting-Edge Tech Behind American Sports TV (And What’s Next)
Competition breeds innovation, especially in sports broadcasting. Think about Australian Cricket in the 1980s. Or today’s multi-billion dollar battle for sports rights and viewer experience bragging-rights between networks owned by ESPN, Fox, ABC and NBC. American sports take on-screen stats and graphics to an obsessive level. Here we look at some of our favourite tech.
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Three Years Of Premier League Soccer Assists, Visualised
Some players score, others set up — that’s just the way it is. This data visualisation takes that idea and runs with it, churning through three seasons-worth of data to anaylse where Premier League soccer assists originate from.
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Nike Hypervenom: It’s Like Playing Soccer Barefoot
Ask any soccer player what they’re looking for in a cleat, and you’ll likely get the same response from them all: feel. Today Nike revealed its latest “innovation” with the Hypervenom, a boot built for agility.
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The Big Super Bowl Blackout Was Caused By A Boringly Faulty Relay
Beyoncé? The Illuminati? Aliens? Nothing so interesting caused the big Super Bowl blackout last Monday. According to Entergy Corp, which was in charge of power at the event, the outage was due to the boring failure of a boring electrical relay device.