NHL sets example for FIFA with video technology
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Two moments in World Cup history are guaranteed to start arguments between soccer fans -- Geoff Hurst's winning goal for England in 1966 and Diego Maradona's "Hand of God" strike for Argentina 20 years later.
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Take a peek at some of the moves the pros are making.
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The Premier league is set to test Hawk-eye technology in football with a view to remove doubts over goal-line decisions, the chief of the company that makes the product has said.
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As TV warms to pro video-game leagues, the top stars are emerging as big brands
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Microsoft officially launches a set of tools that it hopes will become a kind of YouTube for videogames.
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Sport authorities take action against illegal live football and cricket broadcasts over the internet.
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FIFA is adopting a new world soccer ranking system. It&#039;s easy to see why.
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Online video is no longer just  fun and games: You might actually learn something.
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A new "bionic ball" being tested at the Club World Cup in Japan could soon be a regular feature at FIFA tournaments, its developers said on Thursday.
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Cisco will introduce next year its Entertainment Operating System (EOS), a platform for delivering multimedia content to online communities.EOS will be the first major product of&#160;Cisco&#39;s push into helping media companies connect with their customers. It will combine a delivery system, a social networking platform, and a set of tools to help consumers find the content they want, said Dan Scheinman, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco&#39;s media solutions group. It will go on sale in 2008, he said.Two online fan communities, run by the National Hockey League and the NASCAR auto-racing organization, are using elements of EOS today, Scheinman said. NHL Connect, launched last year and uses technology from&#160;social networking company Five Across, which Cisco acquired&#160;in February.Content providers like the sports leagues have large and loyal fan bases but don&#39;t know how to enrich the fan experience or get them to spend more time on their sites, he said. EOS will be a standardized solution for doing that.Making online communities stronger benefits both consumers and content providers, according to Scheinman: Fans get to know each other and providers learn more about their visitors. On top of that, more visits can mean more revenue. Sites such as the NHL&#39;s and NASCAR&#39;s have found that providing legitimate video content leads to more user-generated content as visitors comment on the videos. As they do, visits go up by three to five times, which means three to five times as many opportunities to advertise to the community, he said.EOS will help visitors find content through a recommendation and relevance engine that looks at a user&#39;s activity patterns and makes personalized suggestions, Scheinman said.The growing flood of information available online begs for this type of approach because users often don&#39;t even know what they&#39;re looking for, he said.&quot;Finding anything in this world of infinite information out there is really going to be tricky,&quot; Scheinman said. &quot;You want to be able to have content find you.&quot;Cisco&#39;s network expertise and&#160;recent social-networking acquisitions uniquely equip it to solve this set of problems, he said.&quot;We&#39;ve become the only company that can do all of these three things together,&quot; Scheinman said.
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FIFA is looking at ways to help players prepare better for major international tournaments starting with the 2006 World Cup. The Football Committee and Technical and Development
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The NHL players' association is taking its case public.
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LONDON -- England's Premier League could be going global.
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New technologies wirelessly transmit high-definition video.
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Fans of American football who are too busy to watch every game may enjoy the latest edition of Cyberlink Corp.&#39;s MagicSports software.
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New data gives a peek into how the players are posed to do.
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ANAHEIM, California  - NHL commissioner Gary Bettman conceded the league faces big challenges in gaining the major network television exposure it covets in the United States but that new technology will help attract new fans.