The PGA Tour is giving WHOOP straps ot more than 1,000 employees, staff and players at upcoming events to help detect possible signs of COVID-19 Source: Whoop PGA Tour golfer Nick Watney said it was his wearable fitness tracker that first alerted him that he may have coronavirus. Watney has worn his Whoop fitness tracker for more than a year now. On a Friday morning before the RBC Heritage event, he noticed his respiratory rate had spiked from Whoop’s app. Despite not feeling any of the...

People walk past a Nike store in New York. Carlo Allegri | Reuters On the same day that Nike announced dismal earnings, CEO John Donahoe sent an email to employees warning them that layoffs are coming. “We will soon be forced to make some difficult choices that will likely result in a net reduction of jobs,” the email, sent late Thursday, said, according to Complex Magazine. Nike, whose stock has rallied more than 50% from its March 23 close, reported that sales were down 38% with a net loss...

My Fan Seats is working with college and professional sports programs to create cardboard cutout programs. Photo: Lara Smedley When Major League Baseball kicks off its abridged season this month, its fan base is going to look dramatically different and they won’t be nearly as loud. That’s because teams like the Oakland Athletics, San Francisco Giants and a handful of others will be filling their stands with cardboard cutouts of fans. The trend, which we first saw in European soccer leagues,...

Remote Cheerer used for Chiba Lotte Marines game in Japan Source: Yamaha Cheering for your favorite sports team may soon be as easy as tapping an app. Yamaha Corporation is testing out a new technology that allows fans to vocalize support during live games through an app. As fans watch a broadcast of the game, they can push a button to cheer, applaud or start a chant. The audio is piped into the stadiums’ existing speaker systems. Yamaha said each button will have a different variation of a...

See The Full Clip 3 watch now Charles Barkley told CNBC’s Power Lunch on Friday that, instead of talking about issues related to racial and economic justice, the sports world is more focused on who is or isn’t kneeling, or what social justice message is written on the back of NBA players’ jerseys. “We need police reform, we need prison reform,” he said. “My concern is turning this into a circus instead of trying to do some good stuff.” Barkley is in Edgewood Tahoe, Nevada this week, playing...