Broadcast Reporting

Athletes have their horror stories. A certain piece of grass was just too long one day. Their cleat got jammed in the playing surface just the right way. Players feel these horror stories have become all too common with the prominence of artificial playing surfaces. We call it turf. Turf first surfaced in the professional sports world when it was installed in the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. It was built in 1966, and facilities managers were struggling to maintain the…

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Head injuries have plagued the contact sports world since their inception. There is great risk to suffer injury in any sport, but those that involve collisions are all the more dangerous. When thinking of concussions in sports, most people would turn to football, and rightfully so. UPMC estimates that 300,000 concussions are suffered as a result of playing football every year. While that is a staggeringly large number, it is merely a fraction of the entire data point. The same…

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The transfer portal has burst onto the scene of college football. Coaches are taking advantage of this game-changing resource, as they choose to fill out their rosters with experienced players rather than take a chance on a graduating high school player.   The NCAA refers to the transfer portal as a “tool to systemically manage the transfer process from start to finish.” USA Today’s Tom Schad put it best by saying, “It’s a database.”  Players put their names into a website,…

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