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Information Technology in Sports

The information age was 1970’s. The change was brought to the society with the creation of world web (the web). As change in technology, changes channels of communication and message content. The early 1960’s, the computer technology establish protocols which become as the internet in 1969. And later development of Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML) in 1989 that became the basic for the development of web in 1993. The web was introduced to the public at large. During the formative days of the web lot of things was include such as email, blog, face book, twitter, lot of website, journals, you tube etc.,. Another important fact of information technologies being used in sports is seen in the trend analysis done by administrators in sports, franchises and leagues while the most basic functions are storing data used to determine statistics, disclosing the score of a game or uploading pictures for fans to view thorough out a game. In the past, task such as developing rosters (name list) of athletes, managers, officials, timekeepers, drivers and medical staff was took much time to done the work with hand.

But the institution of IT in sports, team administration was now able to not only create detailed roasters of these individuals but can schedule them for work. Also, most profession sports venues have very modern scoreboards that are programmed to update statistics and information directly to a computer system. So with the use of such modern technology, almost every area of sports has become dependent of automation due to relevance that it implies to the lives of spectators all over the world. Through the help of the internet and other web services, live feeds of sports events have become so accessible anywhere in the planet. Most of the professional sports in the world have long used instant reply and other high tech aid to help the referees to make a right call. Video replay systems to check referees call for many years. Basketball referees use replay system to make sure players is shooting within the time allotted by the shot clock. In international cricket, the third umpire has been used for certain situation. The umpires who are out of field can communicate via wireless technology. The third umpire is asked to adjudicate on run out decision. In Football/Soccer the replays could be used to decide off-side decisions, whether a ball passes over the goal line or not.