Tag Archives: Sports

How Technology Powers The Super Fan

Knowledge is a never-ending treadmill. When there's something we're curious about, we seek out the answers. Once we find them, we usually have more questions. We satisfy those needs, and then new blanks need to be filled. Sports are very much that way for fans. There is an unquenchable thirst for knowledge among fans, and it only grows each year. Baseball needs more than just a batting average now. It needs slugging percentages, on-base percentages, and averages with runners in scoring position. Football

5 of the best warmups for preventing muscular injury

Most people turn up to the gym, or to 5-a-side football match, do a few stretches and then get stuck straight in to a serious workout. The problem with this approach is that your body isn’t prepared for the shock of cardiovascular exercise and certainly isn’t ready for any sudden or explosive movements from your muscles. It’s called a warm up for a reason. One of the main aims of a warm up is to increase your body temperature, making your muscles and tendons more flexible and less likely

Three things to try this weekend

We all have our routines, and for the majority of us that involves working five days a week. But, as a reward, we get our income, and our two days every week that are ours to do what we like with. However, it’s easy to get into a rut, and end up doing the same old, same old, each weekend. Every now and then, it’s a good idea to shake things up a little and try something different. You never know, it could set off a whole new passion and lifelong interest. Alternatively, you could try something

Which NFC team will have the toughest season in 2015?

Teams in the NFC arguably have some of the toughest schedules in pro football. The conference has so many talented players that practically every team will face tough games in 2015. These three teams, however, probably have the most difficult schedules. San Francisco 49ers   Image via Flickr by saimad The 49ers not only have one of the toughest schedules in the NFC; they face one of the most difficult schedules in the whole NFL. San Francisco is going to get hit hard early in

Will Packers’ Andrew Quarless Be Able To Meet Expectations?

The Green Bay Packers' tight end Andrew Quarless is going into his sixth season with the team after joining the Packers during the 2010 NFL Draft's fifth round. Despite having racked up some fairly pedestrian receiving statistics so far, he's still getting buzz as a breakout player -- and a good bit of the chatter is coming out of Quarless himself. Between minicamp and the training camp is a dead zone which tends to thin out the NFL news cycle, so the question of "breakout players" can be somewhat