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Want to watch the world’s best golf players compete against each other at the Open Championship, but don’t have a TV nearby? No worries, much of the tournament is live streamed online, viewable either on your PC or mobile device – with no cable subscription required. Read more »

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Y.E. Yang wins 2009 PGA
photo: AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall

The PGA Tour is ending its production partnership with Turner Sports and will take control of its own digital destiny starting with the 2013 season. The parting is in the “it’s about us, not them” mold — but that doesn’t make it easier for Turner. Read more at paidContent »

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Motorola continues its push into wearable, connected gadgets, today introducing the MotoActv Golf Edition. The gadget fits on a wrist and tracks both steps taken and calories burned. More important to duffers and golf pros alike, however: It tracks every shot on 20,000 golf courses. Read more »

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Super Stickman Golf

Super Stickman Golf is a sports game that plays more like a platformer. Scoring is the same as in golf, but each golf course is designed more like a level from a Mario game than something you’d see on the PGA tour. Read more »

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Want to watch Tiger Woods play golf live online? Apparently, you’re not the only one: CBSSports.com is clocking record numbers for its live stream of the 2010 Masters Live tournament. The broadcaster clocked 56,090 556,090 unique visitors tuning into its live streams yesterday alone, which represents […] Read more »

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Well, Tiger Woods didn’t walk away with a win from the 2009 PGA Championship (that honor went to Y.E. Yang), but it was a record-setting weekend for PGA.com and Turner Sports, which served up 3.4 million video streams over the course of the 4-day event. According […] Read more »

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Liz is out this week, which means no breaks for Christopher. But if you’ve got a spare minute, you can watch Tiger Woods play some golf in the 91st PGA Championship. PGA.com is carrying exclusive live video coverage from the tournament from August 13-16. PGA.com will […] Read more »

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Well, it isn’t a nail-biting conclusion driving an extra day of play in this year’s U.S. Open — it’s mother nature, as rain plagued the golf tournament this weekend. But it’s on these unexpected extra days of play that online video gets to shine. Last year’s […] Read more »

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UPDATE: The rains delayed play. You can watch the action here. Don’t expect much work to get done today, as the U.S. Open Golf Championship is underway and streaming live online. Will there be a nail-biting finish that generates millions of views like last year? Tune […] Read more »

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French Government Rejects Internet Piracy Law; the proposed legislation would have given music and movie companies the ability to analyze downloads of individual users and would have cut off Internet access for repeat offenders. (The New York Times) Confirmed: Sony is in Talks with YouTube; companies […] Read more »

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Tiger Woods’ return to golf didn’t end in victory (he was ousted today), but it did generate some big numbers for PGATour.com. The site announced today that it served more than 2.5 million streams during the first round of the World Golf Championships – Accenture Match […] Read more »

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Peter Chernin’s Exit from News Corp. Could Hurt Hulu; old media exec was new media friendly and his departure could impact Hulu’s ability to retain and attract new content. (The Business Insider) Midwest Teen Sex Show Episodes Pulled from MySpace, YouTube and Facebook; the straight-talk sex […] Read more »

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Capturing yourself doing a sport is a great way to improve your game (unless you’re me, in which case there isn’t a flash card big enough to catch all the mistakes). This idea is the basis of My Tour Swing, which lets users upload video of […] Read more »

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Wimbledon starts today, and you can catch all the action online through the magic of livestreaming. Well, you can catch it if you run a Windows machine and if you want to pay $24.99 (though we have some free passes — keep reading). But will this […] Read more »

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Buy whomever decided to livestream yesterday’s epic finale of the U.S. Open a frosty Pabst Blue Ribbon. Tiger Woods’ nail-biting victory gave NBCSports.com its highest-trafficked day ever, with more than 9.1 million page views, more than 2 million unique users and over 1.5 million video streams […] Read more »

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Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate are duking it out in an 18-hole playoff right now, and thanks to NBC, you can watch it live (on the sly, at work). Can the underdog, Mediate, topple the mighty Tiger? Hat tip to Lost Remote. Read more »

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Talk all you want about the online viewership stats for the NCAA basketball tournament — in my book, the Masters golf event is a much better workday time-waster, for several production and sport-inherent reasons. If you don’t like golf or don’t care about Tiger Woods’ quest […] Read more »