Thanks in large part to social media – Twitter in particular – sports fans are increasingly turning to the Internet rather than TV to watch games and other sports content.
According to data from the Sports Media Consumption Report 2013, by Sporting News Media, Kantar Media, and TV Sport markets, 63% of fans went online for sports content, up from 56% just two years ago.
Don’t miss the chance to hear from the three men who started the 3D printing boom at the Inside 3D Printing Conference & Expo, September 17-18 in San Jose, California. Chuck Hull, Carl Deckard, and Scott Crump will explore their early technical and commercial challenges, and what it took to make 3D printing a successful business. Learn more.
San Francisco 49ers cornerback Tarell Brown got some bad news recently, but not from his coach or agent – from Twitter.
The NFL player learned via a tweet from Brian McIntyre, a Yahoo! Sports NFL writer, that he was out $2 million.
Online ticket broker TicketCity has published the results of its first annual overall ranking of the most engaged fan bases in college football.
TicketCity ranked the top 25 teams based on their Twitter followings, Facebook likes, “talking about” metrics, and offline factors including attendance, percentage of stadium capacity filled at home games, and home ticket prices from the 2012 season, excluding bowl games.
The State of Origin is basically the Super Bowl of rugby, an annual best-of-three series of rugby league football matches between the Blues and the Maroons, who represent the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland, respectively.
In honor of the premier sporting event, Australia’s National Rugby League (NRL) partnered with digital marketing agency VML Australia to create a tricked-out NRL Mission Control Room. Take a look inside.
Yesterday’s MLB All Star Game was also an All Star on Twitter, with more than 1 million tweets about the game including a peak of 23,00 tweets per minute for Mariano Rivera’s relief appearance.
Forbes have unveiled their annual look at the world’s 50 most valuable sports teams, a list which is dominated by football – both in the European and U.S. varieties.
Indeed, in news that might be surprising for U.S. sports fans, it’s soccer teams that make up the top three sports franchises, with Real Madrid ($3.3 billion value), Manchester United ($3.165 billion) and Barcelona ($2.6 billion) leading the way. The New York Yankees ($2.3 billion) and the Dallas Cowboys ($2.1 billion) round out the top five.
But where do they stand in social media?
In a NCAA first, Stanford traded its old Twitter handle, @SUAthletics, to Syracuse on Monday.
Stanford Athletics is now tweeting from @GoStanford, and Syracuse University Athletics from @SUAthletics.
With the NBA Final going to the Miami Heat, who beat the San Antonio Spurs 4-3 in the best-of-seven series to secure their second-consecutive NBA Championship, basketball fans are looking to Thursday to see how the 2013 NBA Draft goes down.
The best place to catch the action? Twitter.
During tonight’s LA Dodgers vs. New York Yankees game at 7:05 p.m. EST, there will be as much game-time entertainment online as on the field as 85-year-old Vin Scully takes over the Dodgers’ Twitter account for his first live tweetcast.
Have you ever seen Jimmy Kimmel Live’s hilarious “Mean Tweets” segment?
In honor of last night’s NBA Finals Game 2, the comedian and late-night talk show host assembled a special basketball edition, in which NBA pros read disparaging tweets about themselves. Watch it, below.
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