Twitter would really, really like to make ad-driven TV experiences central parts of its service, and it just confirmed that laser-like focus through an expanded deal with ESPN. The sports broadcaster will soon show in-tweet video highlights of football, soccer and the X Games; Twitter, in turn, gets a guaranteed volume of promoted tweets to [...]
MLBAM, YOUTUBE TEAM TO OFFER FANS MORE BASEBALL Archival footage to include thousands of hours of videos, in-season highlights and classic games; Two daily live games also accessible in select countries NEW YORK (April 29, 2013) – MLB Advanced Media, L.P. (MLBAM), the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball, and YouTube today [...]
t (Getty Images via @daylife) Sure, we all know that in the U.S. sports world, the NFL is the big dog. The league seems to know it, too. So much so that its teams occasionally forget when to stop pushing the boundaries. The Baltimore Ravens recently had a little tiff with their baseball neighbors, the [...]
thursday’S HIGHLIGHTS Bulls 118, Knicks 111: Nate Robinson scored 35 points, and Chicago rallied to beat New York in overtime and end the Knicks’ 13-game win streak. Robinson scored eight points in OT. Carmelo Anthony led the Knicks with 36 points but went 13 of 34 from the field. The Bulls also ended Miami’s 27-game [...]
Posted by Inside Hoops Apr 11 LeBron James continues to dominate the NBA. Through games played on Wednesday, April 10, the Miami Heat superstar forward is averaging 26.9 points, 8.1 rebounds, 7.2 assists and 1.73 steals per game for the best team in the league. Here are some great 2013 LeBron James video [...]
by Chris Chase, USA TODAY Sports Welcome to USA TODAY Sports’ live blog for the 2013 NCAA tournament selection show. We’ll be updating this page throughout the announcement of the brackets with instant reaction, updates from the best of Twitter and as much faux outrage as we can muster. While we wait for 6 p.m. [...]
This past week was buck wild! Lil Wayne was hospitalized for alleged seizures, Waka Flocka and Gucci Mane may actually have beef, Azealia Banks and Rita Ora clash, and Joe Budden and Consequence finally gave each other hands. In the midst of all this, we were still able to have one on ones with main [...]
Video And Pics After The Jump It was a good old fashioned brawl between Wanderlei Silva and Brian Stann Saturday at UFC on Fuel TV 8. The fight brought back memories of Silva’s glory days when he dominated the Pride Fighting Championships. In just under 2 rounds, Silva and Stan thew 200 strikes, according to fightmetric.com. Silva landed [...]
Man, oh man, ASUS certainly didn’t disappoint with the verbally confusing back to back launch of the new PadFone Infinity and FonePad, but the real star of this morning’s Mobile World Congress was sheer insanity, outdoing even that bizarre Columbus video from last week. What happens when you let the Magicians Guild run your show? [...]
Video And Pics After The Jump Via USA Today ANAHEIM, Calif. — Ronda Rousey got her seventh consecutive first-round armbar victory — but only barely. The Olympic bronze-medal judoka faced adversity in the UFC’s first-ever women’s fight, but against former Marine Liz Carmouche, she successfully defended her bantamweight title with her patented submission. The pay-per-view headliner, [...]
The NBA is no longer merely an American brand. In recent years, the league has made a concerted attempt to develop its brand outside of the United State’s borders. The NBA has done this by amongst other things, establishing league offices overseas, developing training facilities outside of the United States and supporting various goodwill initiatives [...]
Video And Pics After The Jump In one of the biggest upsets in UFC history, Antonio “Big Foot” Silva scored a devastating third round knockout over heavily favored Alistair Overeem in their heavyweight match up. Overeem had shown very little respect for his Brazilian opponent leading up to the fight. In the pre-fight press conference, Overeem [...]
Super Bowl Media Day has been described by some as a “circus.” And that is for good reason. Earlier today, over 3,000 members of the media descended upon the Superdome field to interview San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens players. As if 3,000 members of the media being in one place isn’t enough to make [...]
Posted by Staff on 01/16/2013 at 3:50 PM News, TV Week The Popdust Files: american idol With American Idol kicking off its 12th season tonight, we’ve decided to take a look back at the decade-plus history that our all-time greatest music reality show has given us: The wacky judges, the over-ambitious contestants, the fan favorites [...]
Oh, that Arnold Schwarzenegger. Even taking on the infamous Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA), the ex-Governator did things the Arnold way. From pimping his action movie comeback The Last Stand to delighting the internetz with handwritten (via iPad) quips and quotes (“It’s not a tumor! — Arnold“) to taking the briefest of political detours as [...]