Put Me In Coach: Wearables in Professional Sports

The following post first ran on Venture Valkyrie on April 10. Old School Song by John Fogerty, Creedence Clearwater Revival: Put me in coach, I’m ready to play… New School Response by Warriors Coach Steve Kerr: Well, you’re biometric readings tell me you need a rest…. So if you’re me, and lots of other people I know, this is the best time of the year – a virtual harmonic convergence of orgiastic sports joy.  I can watch back-to-back baseball and basketball and, since I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, I get to root for some pretty great home teams: Go Giants! Go Warriors! If you need me, just look for the remote control as it is glued to my hand as I switch between games. Yeah, yeah, I know. By sitting on the couch for a 3-hour baseball game and a 2-hour basketball game my wearable devices are only hitting 10,000 if they are measuring calories. But there are also those entirely countable steps to and from the refrigerator, so back off. The whole wearable devices thing is a hot topic when it comes to professional sports. The weekend warrior uses his or her FitBit or whatever wrist-borne item to show up their friends, impress their family members, and make themselves more neurotic, professional athletes have gone all-in on the wearables concept. For the capital “W” Warriors and other pro sports teams, big data is big money. (Oh no! I have used the dreaded “big data” term; according to my own official policy, that means I have to drink). But now back to S...
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