Ever wondered who was the best basketball player in the Pac-10 in 1982? If that trivia item has been bugging you since the Reagan administration, Google Cloud Platform and the… Read More
Intel is upping its virtual reality game. The tech giant today announced a multi-year deal with Turner Sports and the NCAA to stream March Madness college basketball games in virtual reality, starting… Read More
Can Villanova repeat as national champs? Is this finally Gonzaga’s year? How far will Northwestern go? Don’t ask us. If you really want help with your NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship bracket,… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Utilizing new technology is a “very high priority” for the NCAA, according to the organization’s leader. GeekWire met with NCAA President Mark Emmert last week at CES,… Read More
March Madness is the latest sporting event to be broadcast in virtual reality. Turner Sports announced today that it is partnering with Oculus to provide live virtual reality coverage of… Read More
Editor’s note: Sign up for our GeekWire March Madness contest, with a chance to win tickets to the GeekWire Sports Tech Summit in July. Microsoft Bing is back at it… Read More
The NCAA is easing its restrictions on the use of technology during football games. The NCAA Football Rules Committee today announced that it approved a proposal to allow electronic devices to be used… Read More
Microsoft Bing already used its algorithms to predict outcomes of events like the 2015 Academy Awards and last month’s Super Bowl. But the search engine’s newest prediction engine may be its most robust to date. As we… Read More
NCAA athletes have moved one step closer to receiving settlement money for having their names and faces used in video games. Hagens Berman, the Seattle-based law firm representing former NCAA… Read More
NCAA Football 2014 may be the last collegiate football game ever produced by Electronic Arts. Earlier today, EA announced that it would not make its annual NCAA Football game for… Read More
A circuit court of appeals today rejected EA’s claim that it was protected by the First Amendment in a lawsuit regarding player likenesses. Former NCAA quarterback Sam Keller accused the… Read More
It seemed as though the NCAA was lightening up to the idea of social media when it lifted an in-game tweet limit last month. But now the NCAA football rules… Read More
Editor’s Note: Geek Madness is our quest to find the greatest geek of all time On Monday we kicked off the last four first-round matchups in the technology bracket, and today we’re doing the same… Read More
By now, you may have heard that the University of Washington athletic department reprimanded a reporter for Tweeting too much during a college basketball game. The decision generated tons of… Read More