Posts Tagged ‘Sports’

The closing moments of Super Bowl XLVI, which saw the New York Giants come from behind to edge the New England Patriots 21-17 with a last-minute touchdown, were so dramatic that they set a new tweets per second (TPS) record on Twitter. The final three minutes of the Super Bowl saw Twitter users firing off [...]

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The big news of the hour for sports fans (and web video fans) is that on Super Bowl Sunday 2012 viewers will be able to watch the big game not only on TV, but from their computers and mobile devices as well. That’s right—Super Bowl XLVI will be the first Super Bowl to be streamed online!

Two teenagers have been arrested over racist tweets  they made towards an English footballers as problems with social media and sports connect to rise in England. Samuel Ameobi, an English born athlete of Nigerian descent, logged into Twitter one day to find his page vandalized.

According to a press release from CBS Interactive, a huge number of people watched the game through digital platforms. In fact, the LSU/Alabama game is believed to hold the record for the largest number of fans to watch a football game via the web and iOS devices.

Social networking and sports seem to be involved in a love-hate relationship, with some athletes finding themselves caught in Twitter snafus while some teams have been banned from tweeting altogether. But one football club—Mexico’s Jaguares—is fully embracing Twitter. This month they’ve done away with their traditional jerseys, replacing their names with their Twitter handles!

Social media is overtaking one of the world’s most exciting races, as mobile phones and social networks will play major roles in the upcoming New York City Marathon. For this year’s big event, the Mobile Spectator App has expanded, allowing fans to follow runners throughout the event that will be held on Sunday, November 6.

For most sports fans, watching a game has always and will forever be a social event. NFL Sunday, March Madness, the Olympics, and anything involving the playoffs are much anticipated and social-centered affairs. While smartphones and Twitter in particular have connected sports fans around the world while watching games, one social network is attempting to [...]

Being an American, I tend to have a limited view of European football, or “soccer”. Nevertheless, the rest of the world has a much boarder view of football, as “The World Game,” and it reflects in mobile and social media usage.

What I would argue is the greatest asset of twitter is its ability to unite people all around the world who experiencing the same thing at the exact same time. Twitter is most exciting during the Super Bowl, the Oscars, and certainly would have been ever so entertaining during the O.J. Simpson car chase down [...]

In a clever effort to get a better chance of attracting the best high school athletes from around the United States, college recruiters are turning to a new social network to capture.Connecting athletes and coaches, BeRecruited.com is a social network for players of all different sports and both major and minor post-secondary schools.