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New York Road Runners and MapMyRUN are collaborating to share real-time athlete data from this year’s New York Marathon, thanks to GPS sensors, RFID tags and software. This combination of sports, sensor and social brings a shared experience between athletes and spectators. Here’s why it matters. Read more »

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Cycling fans have some exciting weeks ahead of them, with the Tour de France starting this weekend. Most of the races will happen during work hours in the U.S., but NBC is selling an all-access pass to watch the entire tour online and on your iPad. Read more »

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Want to watch Wimbledon or the Women’s World Cup online? Well, looks like you’re out of luck: ESPN3, which has the exclusive online rights for both competitions, has been suffering an outage this morning. There’s no word yet on when the site will return online. Read more »

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The Spanish company behind Rojadirecta.org has sued the U.S. government, the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement for seizing the domains of its website. Rojadirecta was used to trade links to live sporting events, but its former owners say the sites were legal. Read more »

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Roku is boosting the amount of sports content it carries through a multiyear deal with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) that adds live pay-per-view events and archived matches to its broadband set-top box. It’s the third major sports deal for the set-top box maker. Read more »

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Cord-cutting sports fans that get their soccer fix through Chinese P2P apps are the new pet peeve of the U.S. Trade Representative, whose office publishes an annual report about countries with lax copyright enforcement called the Special 301 Report. This year’s edition, which just came out […] Read more »

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Boxee scored its second major sports league partnership today, bringing hockey fans live NHL games through an officially sanctioned NHL GameCenter Live app — provided they’re willing to pay $19.95 per month or $79 per year, that is. The NHL app will offer paying Boxee users […] Read more »

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Basketball fans were able to watch the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship in 3-D in 55 theaters nationwide earlier this week, thanks to cooperation between NCAA broadcast rights holder CBS and LG Electronics, which wanted to use the event to get consumers excited in 3-D technology. CBS […] Read more »

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March Madness is kicking off with its opening round game today, and CBS  is getting ready to live stream all games online starting with the first round on Thursday. The network has already made $37 million and sold all of its ad revenue for March Madness […] Read more »

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Updated: Turns out, March Madness isn’t the only major sporting event starting this weekend: Cricket fans all over the world have been feverishly awaiting today’s start of the Indian Premiere League Cricket Season. In fact, the first game is already underway while I’m writing this story, […] Read more »

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With March Madness right around the corner, the NCAA is opening up its college basketball video archives and putting them online, allowing fans to check out pivotal plays and moments from the last 10 years of the Men’s College Basketball Tournament. The NCAA Vault, which launches […] Read more »

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Netpulse is getting its software for gym-based entertainment deployed throughout New York through a deal with Town Sports International that will enable club members to watch on-demand videos and track their workouts with a single log-in. New York Sports Club members have long had the ability […] Read more »

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Better late than never? NBC has come under a lot of heat for holding back live coverage of the Olympics, using tape delays to aggregate larger audiences during prime time hours. But it looks like the broadcaster might finally be embracing live, open coverage of some […] Read more »

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This morning Tiger Woods made his first public statement in months, holding a press conference at the PGA Tour Headquarters to respond to criticism from the media since his history of infidelity became public. But I wasn’t interested in the content of Tiger’s apology, so much […] Read more »

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CBS: We’ll Cut iTunes Prices for Some Shows; CEO Les Moonves says the broadcaster will mark down the price on some of its shows from $1.99 to 99 cents. (MediaMemo) Moonves also boasted about the importance of retransmission fees and growth at the company’s cable channels. […] Read more »

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Bad news, basketball fans. Most marquee activities from this year’s NBA All-Star Weekend will be shown live on TNT and ESPN, and won’t be available on the Web. That includes the Slam Dunk contest, the All-Star Celebrity Game, and of course, the All-Star Game itself. But […] Read more »

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Don’t expect to watch the 2010 Winter Olympics live online — unless you like cross-country skiing. NBC Sports has released its coverage schedule for the Vancouver games, and once again, it has made the decision to keep marquee events from being shown live online. Despite touting […] Read more »

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It’s still early in the season, but the National Basketball Association is having a record year in terms of web video traffic and overall TV viewership — growth the league is attributing to a mutliplatform strategy that includes broader TV distribution, more in-depth online coverage and the […] Read more »

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BBC Gives Technical Details of Its New iPlayer On the Wii; the U.K. broadcaster has encoded streams using H.264 at a 700 kbps bit rate, compared to 1.5 Mbps for regular TV or even 3.2 Mbps for HD. (BBC) Speaking of British TV, the U.K. version […] Read more »

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Liz at NewTeeVee has the scoop and a preview of the future of live sports (or at least basketball) on your iPhone. The NBA is launching a new iPhone app that will let you watch live NBA games wherever you are (class, work, bathroom…you get the […] Read more »

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Bandwidth-conscious broadcasters have a new way to distribute their live video streams. A group of Uruguay-based P2P researchers recently released the first English-language version of their open-source P2P streaming application, GoalBit. The application, which is based on a BitTorrent-like architecture, aims to compete with P2P streaming […] Read more »

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If you play fantasy football — what the heck are you doing reading this? You should be checking your stats right now. If you don’t play fantasy football, you probably didn’t fully get that last sentence. All kidding aside, fantasy football is huge, and those sitting […] Read more »

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Time Warner Cable Hires Former Joost CTO; Jason Gaedtke will most likely help the cabler with its TV Everywhere plans; TWC had reportedly been in talks to buy Joost, but that didn’t happen. (Light Reading) Some Preliminary U.S. Open Stats; during the first two days of […] Read more »

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CBSSports.com launches the second season of its Fantasy Football Today live web series this week with an expanded show that it says will deliver all the information fantasy footballers want to know. Chances are good that either you or someone you know is in a fantasy […] Read more »

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Shhh! Don’t tell Liz, but a good chunk of my morning has been spent watching the U.S. Open online. The good news is that it’s actually quite cool. The interface is easy to use and gives you the ability to preview (with li’l video thumbnails!) and […] Read more »

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The tennis flavor of the U.S. Open kicks off on Monday, Aug. 31, but if you can’t make it to New York or are stuck at work, just turn on your PC. The U.S. Open announced yesterday that USOpen.org will be live streaming more than 150 […] Read more »

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Fanbase, a web directory of college and professional teams and athletes, publicly launched today, joining FanFeedr, FanSnap, Yardbarker and a host of other web sites that aim to cover sports in innovative ways. Fanbase’s content is user-driven, similar to Wikipedia and IMDb, so anyone can edit […] Read more »

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Techdirt today points us to a controversy that’s been brewing over in the world of college sports that involves the Southeastern Conference (SEC) trying to put the kibosh on social media during games. Essentially the college sports division doesn’t want fans Twittering, Flickring, Facebooking, blogging, vlogging, […] Read more »

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The multichannel battle will extend to the gridiron as DirecTV has announced that it will offer its NFL “Sunday Ticket” package to cable subscribers via broadband. Of course, there are a few catches. First off, it’s a trial program only in New York. Plus, as USA […] Read more »

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In its second year of existence, the short-form cricket tournament Indian Premier League Championships made 59 three-hour cricket matches available for free online streaming around the world this April and May. Though the broadcast got out to a rocky start, now that the final stats are […] Read more »

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I’m in the midst of moving, so I’m stuck in between mountains of cardboard boxes and molehills of bubble wrap this holiday weekend. That means I have little access to the Internet and television and, by extension, the Wimbledon semi-finals. Evidently, NBC forgot the “live” part […] Read more »

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This is a big week for NBCSports.com. After a rain-delayed U.S. Open Golf Championship spilled over into a live-streamed Monday finale, the sporting world now turns its eyes to Wimbledon, where the grand-pappy of tennis tournaments kicks off this week (watch it here). Note: If you’re […] 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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With Father’s Day just around the corner (Sunday, to be exact), we here at TheAppleBlog thought what better gift to get that special father in your life than a thoughtful yet handy iPhone or iPod touch application. Feeling the cash crunch around this particular time? Not […] Read more »

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First, the good news: In a first for baseball, Yankees fans living in the New York market will be able to stream games played locally. Now, the not-so-great news: There are a few hoops you’ll have to jump through first. Typically, baseball games played in a […] Read more »

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