From the shoes we wear on our feet to the high definition televisions in our living room, wearable devices, the sports universe is a breeding ground for technology. Writer and Photographer Rick Limpert will examine this each week on The Tech of Sports – With guests which include athletes, inventors and journalists that cover the intersection of sports and technology.
For more than 2 decades he’s been playing music and entertaining the masses on the radio. Mainly in Atlanta and New York, but some other places along the way. He’s won numerous awards for best DJ and radio show in Atlanta and New York. I think he’s one of the best musical minds in the country, but he also have a loves of technology, sports and there is a sensitive side to him.
It’s being billed as the most exclusive tennis pro-am in the world. I’m talking about the Necker Cup. This December, tennis players and tennis fans from around the world can join the pros and Sir Richard Branson on Necker Island, Sir Richard Branson’s private island in the British Virgin Islands. It’s a beautiful setting and an impressive lineup of people that will be present Dec. 9 -13.
Sports is serious business and so is technology, so when I can have someone on to make a little light of the world we live in, I love it. We will do that with Robby McGhee, talk about his comedy, talk some sports and have a bunch of laughs tonight with a secret guest Front Row Amy.
Athletes and musicians have more in common than people realize. Both are performers and have to be at their best each and every time they get up in front of a crowd. Don Miggs, the lead singer of the band Miggs agrees with this, and has a love of sports and technology. He joins me this week as he and his group are in the middle of a U.S. tour and he has some fascinating things to say.
Tennis is more than just tournaments like the U.S. Open and Wimbledon. On the professional level there are 100’s of smaller tournaments played around the globe with players looking to break into the big time. College tennis was thrust into the spotlight this year with current and former U.S. college players performing very well.
They say everybody should write a book, well my guest tonight has written more than one and he’s having a good time doing it. He’s James Ross and he writes fictional golf books with the setting being the Prairie Woods Golf Course just outside of St. Louis. From Lifetime Loser to Finish Line and on to Tuey’s Course. Then Opur’s Blade and his most recent release, Pabby’s Score in 2012, Ross puts into words the goings on that we all see at golf courses around America, with a bunch of twists.