SPORTS
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Huupe’s new $699 Arena Upgrade Kit brings shot tracking and AI analysis to existing basketball hoops, with Tracy McGrady helping lead the company’s product push.
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Myron Rolle has built one of the most extraordinary athlete-to-medicine careers of his generation: Florida State All-American safety, Rhodes Scholar, NFL player, physician and pediatric neurosurgeon. The story is newly relevant. On October 8, 2026, Rolle returned to Princeton for a Sports, Race and Society lecture about balancing elite athletics, education and medicine. Princeton described…
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Eric Heiden built one of the strangest elite résumés in American sports: Olympic speed-skating champion, professional cyclist, Tour de France rider, Stanford-trained physician and orthopedic surgeon. At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, the 21-year-old Heiden entered every men’s speed-skating event and won all five. He took gold in the 500, 1,000, 1,500, 5,000…
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Leland Melvin is the only person drafted into the National Football League who later flew in space. His path took him from college football to aerospace engineering, then through an astronaut medical setback that nearly ended his space career before it began. Melvin graduated from the University of Richmond with a chemistry degree in 1986…
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ESPN says the premiere of its six-part Saban documentary averaged 529,000 viewers on October 8, making it the network’s most-watched Original debut since 2022 and its third-biggest Original debut on record. In an October 12 ratings release, ESPN said promotional and series-related content has also generated 110 million video views and 6.7 million engagements across…
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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says the league could begin using a chip-equipped “smart ball” for officiating as soon as 2027. Silver told CNBC that the NBA is working with Wilson on a basketball containing a Bluetooth sensor that weighs about 1 gram. The sensor can track movement, spin and changes in trajectory. The key update…
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A rumor says 76ers coach Nick Nurse mines Bitcoin or runs mining servers. We checked the public evidence and could not verify the claim.
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Every NFL game runs on a technology stack that looks increasingly like a mobile data center: RFID player tracking, ultra-wideband receivers, AWS machine learning, Sony Hawk-Eye replay and measurement, private wireless coach communications, and thousands of hardened Surface Copilot+ PCs.
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North Carolina erased a 10-0 deficit and upset No. 25 Pitt 21-17 behind a 75-yard fourth-quarter touchdown and three late defensive stops.
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NBA 2K players can go beyond default presets with custom rosters, gameplay sliders, realistic shooting, defense, fatigue and MyNBA simulation settings.
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FIFA has opened three new sports-technology challenges focused on real-time player wearables, connected substitution boards, and smarter fan systems for future events.
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FIFA is seeking next-generation sports wearables, connected substitution boards and new fan systems that could be tested at future football events.
