Sporting Kansas City

  • Wednesday Whimsy: Bobby Convey will now tout his teammates’ tweets

    As we’ve discussed before, there are lots of reasons that Sporting Kansas City is widely regarded as one the most technologically savvy outfits in all of professional sports Midfielder Bobby Convey is not one of those reasons. Kansas City’s Major League Soccer franchise has its own technology spinoff, Sporting Innovations, and a stadium, Livestrong Sporting…

  • Tech innovation helps Sporting Kansas City earn more recognition

    The parade of praise from high-profile publications continues for Sporting Kansas City, Livestrong Sporting Park and Sporting Innovations. Kansas City’s Major League Soccer franchise and the team’s high-tech home stadium and tech-centric spin-off all have received recognition recently in the national media, and it seems to stem in part from the …

  • Sporting Innovations gets Fast Company ink for stadium technology

    The reason for the attention might make the purest fans of soccer — or, as they would call it, football — cringe, but Kansas City-based Sporting Innovations gets some significant ink in the March issue of Fast Company on account of the work it has done at Livestrong Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kan. “MLS…

  • Sporting Kansas City launching sports entertainment company

    It’s commonplace to hear stories of startups born out of corporations. But tech companies spun off from soccer clubs? That’s the story behind a brand-new company in Kansas City, Kan. The Kansas City Business Journal reports that Sporting Kansas City, Kansas City’s Major league Soccer franchise, today is launching a company called Sporting Innovations, which…