Tech of Sports - Sports and Technology Integration

Karin Korb is a two-time Para-Olympic champion and one of the top wheelchair tennis players in the world. She just returned from a week as one of the instructors at the USTA-ITF Junior Wheelchair Tennis Camp in California. Karin doesn’t let obstacles get in her way, and it’s great to have her on The Tech of Sports.

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Our annual talk about the state of tennis as it’s the first week of Wimbledon with a couple people who always have some thoughts and opinions on everything tennis. Marty Collins, a tennis parent, enthusiast, and advocate from the USTA Northern California Section and Lisa Stone of the Parenting Aces blog and residing in the Southern Section.

We are going to go off the grid tonight with Shane Lewis. He’s an adventurer, a self-described adrenaline junkie, and a survivor. He’s survived 5 foster homes, 4 institutional boarding schools and every obstacle you can imagine. He’s now globetrotting our world and being an “extreme athlete” in every sense of the word, but he never loses perspective -. Learning about himself and life along the way.

Troy Kirby is the host of The Tao of Sports Podcast. He started it in Oct. 2012 as a way to promote idea-shares with other college/pro sports folks. He’s a great source of information and glad to have him tonight.

There are currently a lot of great stories in the world of sports technology and it’s hard to make sense of all of them. Rick takes some time tonight to answer some questions and give his opinions. Steve joins in to talk with Rick.

Rick talks to two entrepreneurs in the golf world. Sean Yakeley is the founder of Odyssey-Solutions and Louis Girifalco run Rope It. Some great talk tonight about the process of bringing a product to market and they talk about their experiences. Also they tell us what they think of “Shark Tank”.

This week Rick is joined by sports technology expert Bob Roble. Roble is based in Seattle and with his startup, SportsTechieNet, he covers everything in the world of sports technology. Rick and Bob go head-to-head talking about the latest trends in sports tech.

I joined Tony Cruise and the Morning Show at WHAS in Louisville on Tuesday morning to talk about Atlanta hosting the Final Four as thousands of Cardinals fans will be making the trek to Atlanta.

This special edition episode is a time for celebration - NetCast Studio is celebrating it’s 1000th produced episode! NetCast Studio started as a single podcast, Waves of Tech, and has evolved into a large scale network responsible for producing one thousand podcasts from 14 shows. With this event being such a milestone, Steve invited Rick (Tech of Sports), John (Google at a Glance), Joshua (Beyond the Brick), Debbie (Busy Ladies), and Dave (Waves of Tech) to tell their stories of the struggles, victories, favorite moments, and milestones over the past 5 years. Even though each podcaster has their individual set of memories and successes, we can all agree that podcast is a passion we share. When we all sit behind our mics and get ready to record a podcast, we share in living out our lifestyle choices and love sharing those lifestyles with the audience and our listeners.

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March Madness is here! This week we talk about the wild world of sports odds-making with Todd Fuhrman. Former odds-maker at Caesar’s Palace, Columnist for Out Kick The Coverage analyst for Donbest.com. Odds-making is it an exact or inexact science and how does technology play a role.

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Do you still read newspapers? Or do you get your news and sports fix online? It’s a delicate balance and we’ll talk about the ever changing world of sports journalism tonight with Kyle Veazey of The Commercial Appeal in Memphis