The entrepreneurial talent coming out of the University of Washington was on full display Tuesday evening at the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering. For the fourth installment of the Seattle Tech Meetup, five local startups with UW ties gave five-minute pitches to a crowd of more than 200 on the UW campus. But perhaps… Read More…
Many out there believe print media is doomed, and that no one needs to pick up a newspaper when everything is available for free — well, sometimes — on the Internet. But what about something that combines a little bit of both worlds? The University of Washington Athletics Department is trying just that with a… Read More…
If the Washington Huskies football team ends up losing Saturday at the Las Vegas Bowl, head coach Steve Sarkisian probably won’t be the most well-liked guy in town. That’s O.K., though — in Twitter-land, he’ll still be one of the most-popular coaches in the nation. According to a USA Today ranking of the college football coaches with the… Read More…
Seeing your face on a sports video game cover is a dream come true and a mark of accomplishment for some athletes. Those dreams turned into reality for the Washington football senior captains. Thanks to a cool effort by the Washington Athletics new media team, each senior captain received custom-made copies of EA Sports NCAA… Read More…
In 2009, the Southeastern Conference, one of the most powerful in college sports, tried something stupid. In a hopeless and short-lived social media policy, it banned fans from tweeting, updating Facebook or sharing in any way live posts from its games. Many are calling the University of Washington’s athletic department just as ignorant this week… Read More…
UPDATE, NOV. 13 3:30 P.M.: We followed up on this story and asked several schools up and down the west coast about their live coverage policies. Read more here. ———————————————————————— It looks like college coaches aren’t the only ones restricting Twitter use. Todd Dybas, a reporter for the Tacoma News Tribune, Tweeted yesterday that he was… Read More…
When I first came across Washington Huskies football tickets on Groupon two months ago, I wondered if it was a sign of how far the program has fallen. But it turns out lots of other big-name programs around the country are using the deal-of-the-day platform to attract casual fans and help fill up the stadium… Read More…
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