Brian Kamenetzky has worked in sports media for over a decade. He has covered the Los Angeles Lakers and Dodgers for ESPN, the LA Times, and Time Warner Cable Sportsnet, and is a regular presence on Southern California sports radio.
Soccer is about to lose some of its time-honored ref heckling. For the first time ever, FIFA is employing advanced camera technology to detect goals within tiny fractions of an inch, taking the ambiguity out of the most important games in the world.
Technology that can help with assessment and even diagnosis of concussions suffered by athletes is coming online, but the politics of implementation at the highest level remain challenging.