The power of crowdfunding

Pledge Sports chief executive officer Richard Pearson believes crowdfunding has the potential to revolutionise sports funding for both athletes and sponsors. Crowdfunding is a relatively recent phenomenon that involves individuals, fans or businesses helping to fund projects or initiatives by contributing towards them. Those who contribute get the benefit of hopefully seeing the project or […]

Technology ‘will change the way we play ball sports forever’

Novak Djokovic and Billie Jean King have become the latest investors in a ground-breaking analytic system that according to the CEO of its investment holding company “has the potential to revolutionise tennis”. Based on concepts originally designed to train fighter pilots, PlaySight‘s SmartCourt uses five HD cameras positioned around a court to automatically classify and […]