Fans attending this year’s Australian Open have access to real-time interactive data thanks to IBM’s SlamTracker and CrowdTracker. SlamTracker, already popular with fans, adds player and ball movement data to its wealth of match information. “Last year, visualization was m

The Bleacher Report released what’s sure to be a much debated article: “The 25 Best Cities to be a Sports Fan.” “We broke each city down into eight categories: the number of teams there, the success of those teams in the past five years, how nice the stadiums a

It’s the last week of January (sorry, we mean December; we got way ahead of ourselves), and we, too, have the listicle bug. It’s that virus that infects all blogs and websites and forces them to post their top 10 stories of the year. So, instead of fighting it, we’re

Want to get under par? Perhaps some Charlie Parker will help. Maybe smooth out your swing? Try some Sonny Rollins. Really, any jazz will do, because a new study shows that listening to it will improve your golf game. “The purpose of this study was to determine whether the use of

My wife was legitimately camouflaged in a green t-shirt from her alma-mater, while I awkwardly tried to look the part of an alumni from a university 16x larger than the athletic-less art college I attended. Getting a game of catch to happen at my school required a full marketing campa