Let me just get this out of the way: I have a girl crush on Serena Williams. Her badass physical and mental power catapulted her to her first French Open win in over 11 years and 16th overall Grand Slam title, only further cementing her place among the all-time tennis greats. As a fellow female athlete, this is more than enough to make me swoon. Her powerful, muscular physique is symbolic of the new wave of female athletes. At, 31, Williams is playing possibly the best tennis of her career and even clocked her fastest ace at 120 mph – prompting her opponent, Maria Sharapova, to excuse herself by saying,…

Keeping up with the world of sports can be a challenge, but not if all the info is right on a smartphone. When it comes to choosing the right apps, don’t forget about the constantly evolving games every fan should be following. Whether it’s cricket in India or the NFL, if the sport exists, there’s probably an app for that. Choose apps that work on both Android and iOs to avoid any face-palming moments down the road. There are endless apps available, so how can fans and sports betters know which are best? Some are free, some are more user-friendly and some offer real-time coverage. To make things simple,…

In soccer (or football as it’s known in most of the world) is getting more hi-tech on the professional level as goal tracking technology emerges. It’s already in use elsewhere, but now will hit the big leagues in Brazil, making it worldwide. Check out the video: …

Americans crave football and appreciate a positive customer service experience. They pay, on average, about $100 a year for sports programming. Seventy-three percent of U.S. males and 55 percent of females watch football. How do they get their football fix? Sixty percent watch NFL football on television sets, and eight percent catch games on their computers. Twenty-seven percent of Americans watch between six and ten hours of football per week during the NFL season. The cable industry is thriving—it raked in 97.6 billion in revenue last year alone. So, how do consumers feel about the customer…

  Football Connect, an app from OneUp, has changed the way you watch live sports.  This revolutionary live-play social sports game makes watching your favorite sports more fun.  You can earn points by making ‘connects’ during the game, chat with other fans or even trash talk the other team.   Based on their live data, we’ve created this infographic that details the best fan characteristics. The Atlanta Falcons fans are the most strategic, making the most successful swaps that result in point-earning connects.  Who’s talking the most smack?  The New York Jets fans, of course, accounting…

With a bevy of recognizable names in the online ticket marketplace, such as Stubhub, TicketsNow, and Ticketmaster, ScoreBig entered the fray in 2009, backed with over 8 million dollars in venture capital funding. When I was recently introduced to the site by a friend, I decided to check it out and decide if it was simply another ticket site, or if it was an impressive new idea. ScoreBig basically works like this: It sells tickets for 10-60% off face value, with the added bonus of no service fees, which you have to pay on any other ticket site. This intrigued me, so I purchased tickets to a Warriors…

It seems to have crept into every nook and cranny in our daily lives. It makes sense that social media would start to have a dramatic influence on sports, the way that players interact with fans (and the media), and even who will be anointed as the next big star (regardless of actual play on the field). That’s the premise behind this infographic from KT Tape that comes to us via Raleigh Toyota. Click to enlarge. …

If you’re into extreme sports, you’ll dig this. If you’re into watching insane people doing insane things from the safety of their webcam, you’ll love this. Welcome to Valparaiso Cerro Abajo, the premier downhill bike race of the year. It doesn’t necessarily get as much press as others because the entrants are normally fewer than other downhill races. Once you see the videos, you’ll understand why. Unlike most races, this is on a very “loose” track. The streets and sidewalks of Valparaiso, Chile, are not conducive to normal biking and are made more treacherous by the narrowing of the course, poorly-built…

If the statistic is true (and there’s no reason to believe otherwise – heck, it’s on the internet!), then there was an average of 30 million daily tweets between June 13th and July 13th this year that mentioned the Copa America Tournament in soccer (football). Stat. Blows. Mind. According to the same study, there were 7,196 tweets per second during the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup Final. Apparently, only a few came from Barack Obama. More amazing statistics: Lionel Messi of FC Barcelona acquired 6.6 million “likes” on his Facebook page… in one hour. A stadium in Kansas City can handle 18,000 WiFi…

If you enjoy adrenaline-filled racing, bone-crushing tackles, mind-blowing saves, and earth-shattering home runs, chances are pretty good that you have a satellite or cable subscription. This is reality: sports lovers can’t ditch their expensive television providers — not if they want to continue to enjoy the sports they love. Or can they? Let’s get the obvious out of the way — big media doesn’t like change. Big media would prefer that consumers pay for those expensive cable or satellite subscriptions for an incredibly long time. Big media wants suck people’s wallets dry while…