Platform Helps Players, Coaches, Owners, and Reps Improve

It is unwise in an age of rapidly growing technology not to utilize it to your advantage in whatever your chosen field. This is true in the field of sports whether you are an owner, manager, coach, player, scout, or whatever your role. There are many ways in which professional sports in particular have already advanced due to the use of rapidly advancing tech, and a startup called Vantage Sports looks to go beyond the steps already taken. It is a tool that uses tech to change the way that sports teams, media, and fans collect, analyze, and use data. Read more »

Sports journalism is very popular and has been for decades in the U.S. and around the world, and many people rely on sports reporters for game scores and details.  With the advent of the Internet, there is no shortage of sports journalism websites that allow people to get the information they want about their favorites teams in their favorite sports quickly and easily.  Many sites combine this information with a social aspect as well.  Scorestream is a website that combines all of these elements together with a specific focus on local sports, particularly high school or college, while allowing fans to interact with each other in real time.  It offers many different benefits for many different types of users, whether personally sharing news and highlights with family and friends, keeping fans up to date as a coach or athletic department head, or as someone covering sports for a local media company or news outlet. Read more »

There is no shortage of websites and apps dedicated to arranging travel, whether on a very basic level or involving every step in the process.  Until recently, however, there were very few, if any, dedicated to arranging travel packages specifically geared toward sports fans for specific sporting events.   Fandeavor is a service that does exactly that, providing what its creators guarantee to be a trouble-free solution for easy sports fan travel packages and VIP game day experiences.  While users can use the website to simply buy tickets to any number of games in any sport nationwide, Fandeavor focuses on providing a customized selection of sports experiences to complement games in a way other websites and services do not. Read more »

In team sports, perfectly combining all the elements needed to be a winner is a difficult task in itself. Combining all the other things required of a high school or college’s athletic department takes valuable time and resources away from what should be the team’s focus: winning games.  Fortunately, to counter this problem, there is SportsHub.  SportsHub allows coaches and athletic department heads to quickly and easily create a custom website with mobile compatibility, and its designers claim that, once created, it runs itself.  Essentially, it is an athletics platform that automates daily tasks while making the work you do every day as simple as a click, tap, or swipe. Read more »

365Scores is a customizable sports news app offering live video updates and scores.  With as many mobile sports apps available as there are, it has a great deal of competition, but many of those lack extra features or have a very basic look. They remain popular, but while they easily cater to the everyday desires of sports fans, they do not deliver much that users cannot find through an Internet search.  365Scores, on the other hand, delivers all the news and scores for your favorite teams while adding a unique dimension to the genre of sports-related apps. It is an app that tracks players as well as games, looks better than most, and provides much more information, personalization, and interactivity than most of its kind. Read more »

Almost everyone has a personal account on at least one social media website, and the Internet provides the best forum for those who share a specific interest.  Combine these two elements with a passion for sports and you have Sportlobster, an app its developers refer to as “The Sports Social Network.”  Certainly most teams have pages on social media as well as their own websites while providing news feed for their fans, and sports journalism is also widely accessible online.  What makes Sportlobster unique is the ability to get all the information you want on as many teams as you want without having to switch from page to page or open another browser, while at the same time viewing all the sports news you want without having to sort through any other information to see it. Read more »

No matter how successful a sports team is, there is always room for improvement, and it is important to continue upgrading whenever possible.  However, as teams are forced to deal with increasing demands on their budgets and coaches’ time, it can be quite difficult to do so.  Enter SportsBoard, a cloud-based app that provides solutions for recruiting, training camps and clinics, and other aspects of player development for amateur and college sports.  According to the app’s developers, it is “the only assessment solution that enables coaches to efficiently capture and distribute feedback to each athlete.”  This makes the app effective in evaluating players and their place on a team as well as finding players to recruit who would best fit with a team’s system and philosophy. Read more »

There are plenty of places online where you can keep up with your favorite sports teams and find out the latest scores and sports news. From each club’s own official website, to its social media pages, to the thousands upon thousands of sites created by fans, there seems to be no end of web pages you can view in order to get up-to-date information on the teams you follow. Fanzo changes things in a number of innovative ways to make the fan experience even more enjoyable and to engage users in competitive fun on an international scale. Read more »

Before the Internet took over popular media, television was not only the dominant medium for entertainment, but in many ways was also a very social medium.  Groups of friends and families would often watch television together as a collective activity.  They would talk and interact while their favorite shows were running rather than sit in silence.  People would do this especially often during sports broadcasts, and in fact, many still do, as Super Bowl parties are part of a lot of people’s yearly social calendars.  However, for most situations, the social element of TV has transferred online.  Rather than talk about what’s happening on a show with friends that have come over for the night, people go on Twitter and Facebook to post status updates about it.  Cool product in technology Tok.tv is working to make the social aspect of watching television more interpersonal again and ironically, is doing so with the use of technology itself.  Tok.tv is a mobile app that combines a second screen experience for television with group voice chat over the Internet.  Users who have issues downloading the app can get help from an Android support or Apple support professional depending on the device that they own. Read more »

Sports and athletic competition have been a pastime of choice for human beings for literally thousands of years. With all our technological advancements, people have never had more opportunity to improve their skills than they do today.  Competitors can track their health and fitness with countless mobile devices and smartphone apps.  They can also view HD video to study both their own performances and the performances of others on their phone, tablet, computer, or large screen TV almost any time they want.  Cool person in technology Chen Sachar has introduced yet another way that players can use technology to improve their game—real-time analytics and 3D visualizations.  Read more »