Temple Athletics Launches Social Media Rewards Program
It’s an exciting time to be a fan of the Temple Owls. They have a basketball team that has made a habit of going to the NCAA Tournament most years and a football team that is playing in the Big East...
View ArticleColts Owner Jim Irsay Continues to Demonstrate The Benefits and Pitfalls of...
Colts Owner Jim Irsay has always long embraced social media. He was very active during last season’s Super Bowl in which the City of Indianapolis and the Colts hosted, as well as during his very...
View ArticleMLB To Finally Test Out Expanded Instant Replay at Yankee Stadium and Citi Field
Major League Baseball has been reluctant to implement the latest advances in technology available to aid their umpires and improve the accuracy of their calls. The league doesn’t seem to mind the bad...
View ArticlePac-12 Networks Ready for Historic Launch Tonight at 6PM PDT
Athletes, fans and alumni of Pac-12 institutions anxiously await tonight’s launch of the Pac-12 Network. The launch of the Pac-12 Networks has been highly anticipated ever since Larry Scott announced...
View ArticleUniversity of Michigan Transforming the Wolverine Brand Through Technology
Michigan Football has gone through a transformation under the leadership of Hunter Lochmann Dave Brandon is making a splash at Michigan. Not only is his program on the rise, but the Michigan Athletic...
View ArticleLive@Wimbledon Serves Up Unprecedented Tennis Coverage Online
While Roger Federer just wrapped up his seventh Wimbledon championship and made this charity a lot of money, the big winners were the fans who would normally have been out of luck if they didn’t have...
View ArticleAt Long Last! FIFA Approves Goal-Line Instant Replay Technology
Technological improvements when it comes to improving the officiating in sports are always a mixed bag. The NFL has highly embraced replay while MLB has stated this season they are not looking to add...
View ArticleLouisville Athletics Announces Social Media Plan Featuring Louie the Cardinal
Summer is usually a quiet time in collegiate athletics. None of the teams are competing and there are only so many times that a devoted fan can visit a team’s webpage to view the countdown clock until...
View ArticleNew York Mets To Hold Social Media Night For Tonight’s Game
Social media nights are catching on in Major League Baseball. The Pittsburgh Pirates hosted an event late last month and the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs followed with their own nights soon after....
View ArticleNBA Becomes First Pro Sports League To Honor Best of Social Media
Every professional sports league views social media differently. We have previously discussed how we thought the Masters’ dropped the ball by not prioritizing their social media outreach during the...
View ArticlePittsburgh Pirates Hold First Ever Social Media Night For Tonight’s Game
By Simon Ogus – Email | Twitter | Articles We here are Sport Techie have covered the progress that MLB teams have taken to really focus on the value of social media and the immediate and long-lasting...
View ArticleMLB Fan Cave Continues to Thrive In Year Two
With the 2012 MLB season in full swing, the MLB Fan Cave is up and running, in year two, after a highly successful inaugural campaign. The couches have gotten busier, with nine mega-fans instead of...
View ArticleToronto Blue Jays Players Reaching Out To Young Fans On Twitter; And It’s...
April is always the time of eternal optimism for baseball fans. Every team is within contention and even the longest of long shots have hopes that this year will be “The Year”. Safe to say, history...
View Article2012 Twitter Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens Defeat Vancouver Canucks
Last week, we explored how actively Major League Baseball teams use Twitter. With the NHL playoff s starting up this week, its a great ime to see how the two sports compare. The findings are a bit...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Phillies and New York Yankees Would Face Off In a 2012 Twitter...
The 2012 Major League Baseball season kicked off Wednesday night at new Marlins stadium and it got us thinking about who the best teams are at engaging fans through Twitter. It turns out the...
View ArticleUniwatch Parlays Big NFL Announcement into Windfall of Twitter Followers
The big news in sports this week was a changing of the guard for the NFL’s official apparel manufacturer. On April 1, Reebok’s ten-year exclusive contract with the league ended and Nike began its...
View ArticleDirecTV Catapults Masters Coverage to Next Level
On the heels of Monday’s Final Four championship, golf now takes center stage with one of its premier tournaments of the season starting Thursday: the Masters. The tournament will pit surging classic...
View ArticleSan Francisco Giants Add New Tech Dimensions to Ballpark Tours
The San Francisco Giants continue to demonstrate how they are on the cutting edge when it comes to the utilization of technology throughout their stadium and the day to day operations of the team....
View ArticleKansas Jayhawks Win Social Media Final Four
We here at Sport Techie examined Kentucky Basketball’s Social Media expertise earlier this week. It appears that another one of the Final Four participants also has social media prowess of its own....
View ArticleNo. 1 On the Court and No. 1 in Social Media: Kentucky Wildcats Winning On...
As we enter the Final Four this weekend, there are a lot of familiar faces headed to New Orleans to compete for the 2012 NCAA Championship. In fact, all of the programs (Ohio State, Kansas, Kentucky,...
View Article