Tag: FOOTBALL

During this weekend's NFL Combine, some prospects will wear an Under Armour shirt equipped with an accelerometer as well as heart and breathing monitors. According to Wired, the E39 shirt is made from the same material as Under Armour's other compression gear, and weighs less than 4.5 ounces -- even with the bright yellow puck stitched just below the chest. In addition to the accelerometer, the ...

Giant paper playbooks may soon be a thing of the past in the NFL. Many teams, including the Dallas Cowboys, are considering jumping on the tablet bandwagon and leaving the piles of dead trees behind. Switching to a tablet like the iPad will certainly please the environmentally inclined, as a team can easily go through 5,000 pages of playbooks and review sheets per game. It could ultimately save ...

The Super Bowl, as you might have heard, is Sunday. The NFL playoffs have nearly run their course, the league's pretenders have gradually fallen by the wayside, and, this Sunday, all of America will watch in heightened (and inebriated) anticipation as the Green Bay Packers take on the Pittsburgh Steelers for the right to wear special baseball caps and participate in a parade at Disney World. ...

With a lockout looming, the NFL and its players union have been struggling to reach a new collective bargaining agreement by March 3rd. Both sides have begun using Twitter and other sites to attempt to sway the popular opinion of fans who might not have a sport to watch in 2011. According to The New York Times, commissioner Roger Goodell sent an e-mail on Wednesday to his staff saying he'd ...

Fans of the Washington Redskins and the New York Giants fumbled away a golden opportunity last week. Rivals the Dallas Cowboys left the door open for cybersquatters when the team forgot to renew its official site. The 'Boys allowed DallasCowboys.com to expire on November 2nd, but have since reclaimed it. Still, with the team miserably wallowing at 1-7, did anyone even notice the absence? ...

More rumors fly around Twitter than at a high-school cafeteria. But sometimes, the social-networking site actually does break real news -- and it has once again. According to Business Insider, ESPN columnist Bill Simmons, a.k.a. "The Sports Guy," broke news yesterday about the trade of NFL wide receiver Randy Moss from the New England Patriots to the Minnesota Vikings by sending what he claims ...

If negotiations don't stall, Verizon may add a powerful new feature to its list of services. According to the Wall Street Journal, the NFL intends to transition its games and programming to tablet devices, but -- for now -- there is still "a question of what shape or form." Verizon hopes its tablets present the solution to that question, and its recent $720 million exclusive mobile deal with the ...

Twitter is a lot like a firearm. If you don't know how to use it, you should just keep your hands off of it. According to The Orlando Sentinel, Oklahoma Sooners head coach Bob Stoops suspended wide receiver Jaz Reynolds indefinitely on Wednesday for insensitive comments he'd made on his Twitter account about the recent shooting at the University of Texas in Austin. Reynolds wrote, "Hey everyone ...

Earlier this season, the University of Oklahoma Sooners football team began wearing In Case of Emergency Dot (ICEDOT) chips during games. The small red disks, which clip onto a jersey, can securely store a patient's entire medical history, and give emergency workers immediate access to it via an eight-digit PIN. Not only is it much faster to access digital records than paper records at the ...

If you've ever sat in nosebleed seats at an NFL game, you'll agree that the view from your living room -- which probably includes HDTV and cheap snacks -- is much better. But Fanvision, a new handheld device offered at 12 NFL stadiums and one college, could enhance live football games by using the same technology that keeps some folks at home. The handheld, which only works inside the stadium, ...

In September of last year, Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco voiced his displeasure with the NFL's decision to prohibit the use of social media like Twitter immediately before, during and after games. Apparently, Ochocinco has decided that he isn't going to let pesky little rules get in his way, though. The avid Tweeter and Ustream user has already received his first fine of the ...

With concussions becoming a focal point in sports medicine, doctors and trainers are searching for new ways to diagnose these dangerous injuries. According to The Washington Post, for the past year, athletic trainers at the University of Maryland and Ohio State University have been using Wii Fit to test the balance of football players in order to more accurately diagnose concussions. To begin, ...

Niche social networking runs rampant, and the latest site to match up particular bedfellows is, according to Wired, designed to bring together college football recruiters and high school football players. Created by the son of an NFL broadcaster, Play Next Level is a place where kids who dream of playing college pigskin can create profiles to attract recruiters (and maybe earn a scholarship). So ...

A young professional athlete isn't the first image that pops into our heads when we think of video game addicts. But, according to the Seattle Seahawks official website, defensive tackle Quinn Pitcock left his former team, the Indianapolis Colts, because he was depressed and addicted to video games. Pitcock was so depressed that he felt like he couldn't face another year in the NFL, so he quit in ...

Reuters Canada reports that the NFL has spoken with a German manufacturer about placing microchips inside footballs in order to prevent blown calls by officials. The tight-lipped NFL, naturally, would not confirm or deny these reports, but Cairos Technologies sales director Mario Hanus told Reuters, "Yes, we are talking. There is a demand in American Football." The demand is getting touchdown, ...