College football tailgating is serious business. Learn which colleges have the best and strangest traditions from this infographic.
Category: Sports
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Brains Meets Brawn: The NFL’s Play on Mobile Technology
Today the NFL bans computers, mobile phones, tablets, video equipment, and even calculators on the sidelines, locker rooms, and coaching booths. However, as technology continues to advance the NFL may begin to loosen their tech rules to accommodate these emerging technologies to increase performance and improve player safety. Learn how teams are accomplishing this and more with this infographic presented by Qualcomm Spark.
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Gearing Up
Can you guess the 1o universities that spend the most on their college football team? This must-see infographic presented by Sparefoot has the inside scoop on this and much more. Check it out below to learn more.
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Gamers are the New Professional Athletes
It’s time to test your gaming knowledge! What doctor/hospital show has its own video game? If you guessed Grey’s Anatomy, you’re right. Check out this must-see infographic presented by Direct-Ticket for this and other fun facts about gaming.
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Sports General Managers: How to do More With Less
The job of a General Manager is to build a consistently competitive team, while keeping resources for the future as well. The job is easy, when the team has money. The challenge is doing the job on a budget. A big influence on the world of General Management is the 2003 Michael Lewis book “Moneyball,” which is about “the art of winning an unfair game.” The book is about Billy Beane and the Oakland A’s, an example of a cost-effective GM. Nowadays, new steps are being taken to increase parity among teams. For example, the Competitive Balance Lottery gives teams with minimal revenue additional high draft picks.
To learn more about how GMs can achieve more with less, check out the infographic below, presented by SportsManagementDegreeHub.com.
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Making a Splash: Fast and Fascinating Water Facts
Water is everywhere. It sustains our bodies and provides us with challenges that we gladly take on. From swimming to boating, throughout history we have taken on the water in new explorations, and in setting new records. New technology, such as new swimsuits, help us in taking on the water. Some high-tech suits are banned from the Olympics, due to already-speedy athletes breaking an unmatched number of records.
To learn more facts about water and swimming, check out the infographic below, presented by Backyard Ocean.
Water: humans have been fascinated with this element for centuries. We drink it, we play in it, we can’t survive without it. From the 1500s when Magellan first sailed around the globe to the 2000s when we developed technology allowing us to swim at record-breaking speeds, we have constantly strived to overcome challenges this Mother Nature throws at us.
Backyard Ocean invites you to take a swim through time to see some of the seemingly impossible feats humans have achieved with water, and the speediest animals of all times.
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Michael Jordan’s Playoff Dominance
Here is an infographic by Yahoo Sports which shows how much Jordon dominated basketball in his career. The infographic shows his playoff scoring averages, the number of NBA championships he played in, lists all time NBA playoff leaders and more.
Originally published by Yahoo Sports
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Football: The Twitter Connection
Here is an infographic by Unibet about what Twitter reveals about the modern game. The infographic provides information about which football players have the most Twitter followers, who’s currently trending, who’s following who and more.
Infographic 1st published by Unibet – via 101 Great Goals
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Which Countries Were Really The Most Successful in London 2012?
Here is an awesome infographic by Paulo Estriga which provides information about which countries did the best in the London 2012 Olympic games. The infographic has sections on the official top 10 and top 10 with population as a factor.
This infographic was originally published at CargoCollective.com – via Cool Infographics
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The Rising Cost of the Olympics
Here is an interesting infographic from PayDayLoan.co.uk about the rising cost of the Olympics with sections on the cost of hosting the games, cost overruns of the games, profit and loss, medals vs GDP and where the money is coming from for London 2012.
To see a full size version of the infographic click here.
