NFL will bring exclusive original TV content to Xbox One

With Microsoft's introduction of the new entertainment watching experience through its new Xbox One console, one of the biggest winners will obviously be for those that love live sports.

Gooooallll! The Football App scores $13M to accomodate millions of global fans

"The world's leading mobile football community', The Football App has raised $13 million to capitalize on fans love of the game. Otherwise known as soccer.

Bypass catches $3.5M to help sports fans drink more beer

Bypass has raised $3.5 millin for its mobile payments solution specifically designed for entertainment venues and sports stadiums.

Funding daily: a funding spike for global tech startups

We saw a significant uptick in funding today; almost a dozen companies closed rounds in diverse industries, such as sports, consumer-tech, and political-tech.

Baseball app lets you shout ‘Home run!’ with your remote friends while watching the game

It's a lot more fun to voice your sports trash talk, instead of just typing it out. With that in mind, Tok.tv has embarked upon building a different type of second-screen app.

HBO Go planning to add livestreaming sports in 2013

Lately, premium cable network HBO's executive team has been rather open about the future of its streaming service HBO Go, and not just when it comes to original TV shows.

YouCommentate aims to democratize sports commentary — and maybe the news

YouCommentate offers a real-time audio streaming platform so people can comment on live sports events. But it has even bigger potential than that.

ESPN teams with Kid President to grab digital March Madness fans (video)

Rather than be bummed out that CBS has exclusive rights to stream all the March Madness college basketball games this year, ESPN has enlisted the help of YouTube star Robbie Novak, aka Kid President.

Punt your TV: The Super Bowl is better online (guide)

Want to improve your 2013 Super Bowl experience? We've devised a comprehensive game day guide for football fans and all their apathetic friends and family members.

Ooyala’s new Twitter Card support turns your Twitter feed into ESPN SportsCenter

Sports fans will be pleased to learn that their Twitter feeds are now more useful for catching up on game highlights and replay video clips.

Want NFL stars Drew Brees or Jerry Rice as your Facebook friend?

Microsoft's Xbox team and the NFL have joined forces to make America healthier and reduce childhood obesity. One of the incentives is an actual NFL star friending a kid on Facebook and giving him or her a "social autograph," which kids can then share with their friends.

Weekend warriors: Track your fitness with Novusport’s social mobile sports game

Novusport measures and ranks your activity. The more you play sports, the more you score.

RecBob takes the work out of after-work sports

RecBob is a Facebook app for adult recreational sports that makes it easy to plan a regular sporting event so all you have to do is show up and play the game.

SportStream wants to be your second screen while watching the big game

After launching on iPad only in June, social sports service SportStream is releasing a web-native version today, which will be available to anyone using any tablet, smartphone, or laptop.

NumberFire sees 8X revenue boost for improving your fantasy football team (exclusive)

New York sports analytics startup NumberFire is ready to go for this year's football season with better features and a hunger to be an integral part of the online sports community.

Touchdown for cord-cutters: DirecTV offers ‘NFL Sunday Ticket’ on PlayStation 3 again

DirecTV and Sony have come to a new agreement to bring the NFL Sunday Ticket programming package to PlayStation 3 owners this season.