ESPN’s Kenny Mayne on childhood prank calls, cloud computing and his love for Twitter

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Washington native Kenny Mayne is one of the more hilarious people around sports broadcasting. A quick YouTube search of his name or a scroll through his latest Tweets is a surefire way to get a good chuckle. So when we ran into Mayne at the Seattle Sports of the Year awards show earlier this year, we had… Read More…

‘Sports Hack Day’ Diary: Pitching ideas, picking teams and getting started on a football ‘PED or Not’ app

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SEATTLE — Ready, set, hack. Just 12 hours after kickoff and we’re well underway at Sports Hack Day. I’m here at the HUB Seattle documenting my first-ever hackathon experience and am already realizing what a melting pot of wicked smart ideas these things are. We got started Friday night with a keynote from Vantage CTO Cameron Tangney and… Read More…

Xbox introduces SportsPicks app, new SmartGlass experience for ESPN, NBA

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For sports fans, the Xbox was once just a device for scoring touchdowns on Madden or making birdies with Tiger Woods. But as Microsoft continues to turn the Xbox into an entertainment hub, its sports content is following a similar path. We already wrote about Xbox’s new ESPN and NBA apps, and today Microsoft debuted a… Read More…

Live ESPN programming now available with Xbox WatchESPN app (video demo)

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The old ESPN app on Xbox Live was mediocre at best. There were highlights and a few non-important ESPN3 live offerings, but not much past that. That all changes today with the official launch of WatchESPN, an updated app that now features ESPN’s full slate of programming, including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3 and ESPN Goal Line…. Read More…

Boeing engineer hopes sports app soars above competition

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There is no doubt that the social sports playing field is a crowded one, but one Boeing Flight Deck iPad application engineer is hoping he’s found the right formula. Benjamin Monnig develops the iPad user interface for airplane cockpits during the day, but he’s spent the past five months working evenings and weekends building up… Read More…