FLAGSHIP SERIES: STADIUM TECH REPORTS
Introducing: The Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey!
To all stadium, arena, ballpark, race track, concert-hall, convention-center, airport, casino and other large public venue owners, operators and administrators and deployers of connectivity technology: We need you! That is, we need you to take our Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey, a vehicle designed to find out "where we're at, and where we're going" when it comes to connectivity technology and the business Read More>>
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Chicago’s United Center to serve as Covid-19 logistics hub
It seems like many venues are already stepping up to assist with the public battle against the coronavirus, something we wondered about in an editorial on Monday. In Chicago, the United Center -- home of the NHL's Blackhawks and NBA's Bulls -- will act as a logistics hub for first responders and for food distribution. According to a post on the United Center site, "Our arena and outside campus Read More>>
Commentary: Venues should step up to the plate to assist with Covid-19
Is there a way that sports venues could assist with the public challenges being caused by the coronavirus? I'm not a public policy expert but it seems like there are some inherent characteristics about big, open places that could actually assist in combating the spread of the disease and helping ease the pain it is causing and will likely cause. Already we are seeing reports of venue parking Read More>>
New Report: Dickies Arena sets a new standard for arena excellence
MOBILE SPORTS REPORT is pleased to announce the Spring 2020 issue of our STADIUM TECH REPORT series, the ONLY in-depth publication created specifically for the stadium technology professional and the stadium technology marketplace. Our latest issue contains an in-person report on the new Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, which may have just set the new standard for excellence in an arena experience. Read More>>
Corning’s Jess Koch and Art King talk CBRS for venues on the Mobile Sports Report Podcast!
We're excited to continue our renewed series of podcast conversations with this meeting of the minds from Corning, where Jess Koch and Art King join Mobile Sports Report to talk about CBRS, and how the new spectrum might be used to support private networks and other new applications for stadiums and other large public venues. In our conversation, we start with a brief recap of what CBRS Read More>>
NCAA cancels March Madness; MLB, NHL, MLS susupend schedules
In another somewhat inevitable decision, the NCAA on Thursday announced it was canceling the men's and women's Division I basketball tournaments, "as well as all remaining winter and spring NCAA championships." After the NBA suspended its season Wednesday night and most conferences canceled their year-end tournaments in progress, it was quickly apparent that the NCAA's Wednesday decision to hold Read More>>
NBA suspends season after Jazz’s Gobert tests positive for coronavirus
In yet another of seemingly endless unprecedented moments in sports Wednesday, the NBA postponed a game about to start and then announced it was suspending the entire season after a Utah Jazz player tested positive for coronavirus. Here's the entire explanation on the NBA website: NEW YORK -- The NBA announced that a player on the Utah Jazz has preliminarily tested positive for COVID-19. The Read More>>
Update: NCAA cancels Final Four
UPDATE, March 12: The tournaments have been canceled> In a decision that came to be somewhat inevitable, the NCAA on Wednesday announced that due to concerns about the coronavirus, all its championship events, including the men's and women's division 1 basketball tournaments, would be held "with only essential staff and limited family attendance," meaning that regular fans would not be allowed Read More>>
NCAA mum on coronavirus tourney plans while two conferences close doors to fans
The NCAA has yet to commit to any measures to exclude fans or cancel games for its upcoming men's and women's basketball tournaments, even as two conferences closed their tournament doors to fans and one canceled its tournaments altogether. In a statement on its website, the NCAA put off making a decision Tuesday, even as the Ivy League canceled its conference tournaments and the Big West and Read More>>
