Big Ten wants instant replay throughout college football
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The Big Ten&#39;s experiment with instant replay went so well the conference is asking the NCAA to approve its use on a permanent basis for all of Division IA.
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It's not clear that the NFL would approve, but a company in Taipei has software designed to examine a recorded full-length football game and compress it into a highlights-only "reel" lasting just 20 minutes.
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By Marc Katz  Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany spoke the truth the other day when he said, "The consumer gets what the consumer demands." It remains to be seen if the consumer wants the Big Ten Network. That's yet another new network not yet carried on area cable television.
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(InfoWorld) - Fans of American football who are too busy to watch every game may enjoy the latest edition ofÂ Cyberlink's MagicSports software. Version 4.0 adds football to a growing list of sports for which the software can analyze and compile highlight reels, alongside soccer, baseball, and Sumo wrestling. MagicSports will watch a three-and-a-half-hour football game for you, clip the most exciting moments, and compile a 20-minute video you can watch and share with friends. The auto-editing program can even trim the final video to as short as three to five minutes. And the software is just in time. National Football League regular season games started last week. MagicSports uses several techniques to analyze a game, then ranks highlights according to importance. A four-star classification is a must-see highlight, and will be added instantly to the final video. The game scoreboard is a major indicator for the software, because point changes and other information from the board can be cross referenced with crowd noise and movement on the field near the end zones. A scoreboard change to first and 10 from a prior view of third and 15 without the ball changing hands, for example, tells the software that a team made a big play to gain a first down. Or a sudden change such as first and 10 for one team to first and 10 for the other team, along with crowd noise, might tell the software an interception was made or a fumble recovered. Similar techniques are used in soccer. Activity near the goal, crowd noise, referee whistles, scoreboard changes and game stoppages all indicate to the software that a highlight clip might need adding to the final video. MagicSports 4.0 is available now online from Cyberlink's Web site. It costs $49.95 and runs on PCs with an Intel Pentium 4, 2.6GHz microprocessor, or better, and 256MB of RAM. Cyberlink continuously tweaks and improves the software, and it is constantly working to include more sports. Tennis is already under development, and might be included in the next version, engineers at the company say. Â
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You love sports, so you might have missed it. Maybe you were watching the Celtics lurch toward consecutive loss No. 18. Maybe you were dissecting and analyzing the AFC's last-second victory in the Pro Bowl. Maybe you were tuned in to one of the 17 college basketball games on television or downloading some plays for your next pickup game at ...
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One football season with instant replay convinced Big Ten officials it needs to be permanent instead of experimental. Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said Thursday the league will ask the
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After a pennant race and postseason dotted with reversed rulings, baseball will get another chance to see who else wants to give replay a look. The topic is on the agenda for Thursday at the GM meetings. And there seems to be growing support among teams to join the NFL, NBA and NHL in using instant replay on calls such as fair or foul and homer or not, but definitely not balls and strikes.
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Yes, the Michigan and Wisconsin football teams could potentially decide Big Ten bragging rights in the Rose Bowl. That was the advice Thursday from Dave Davis, 2005 Tournament of Roses president.
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It comes as no shock that a league filled with research institutions consulted empirical data before implementing college football&#39;s first instant replay system.
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They occur every college football season, games in which logic gets suspended and disbelief takes over. Call this the first Say What? Weekend of the 2007 season.
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As usual, the Big Ten coaches were out in full force at today&#39;s Big Ten Teleconference. Both OSU head coach Jim Tressel and Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz offered some thoughts on the upcoming game between OSU
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Ohio State is tired of hearing about its inability to put opponents away.
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You can hear the sounds, and feel the energy, the tension, and the anticipation. College football will decide conference championships and bowl bids tomorrow. That's the main story.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Coach Jim Foster wants No. 10 Ohio State to be tested for a change. The Buckeyes certainly will be on Saturday night.
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At 34, Andre Agassi has seen a lot of things in tennis. And here's one more that he'd like to add: instant replay.
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The same instant-replay technology designed to shield football from human error has created a new level of vulnerability.
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The Atlantic Coast Conference will use instant replay at its football games next season, becoming the second conference to do so, following the Big Ten.. ACC commissioner John Swofford, who visited Boston College yesterday, said the decision has no downside.