This week, the NFL announced that in the 2025 season they will use a digital measurement system to conduct chain measurements instead of bringing the chains onto the field. This change is expected to ...

The days of NFL officials stretching the chains to measure for a first down as the crowd waits in anticipation are over — and some fans are sad to see them go. The league debuted its new virtual ...

The NFL has replaced the traditional 10-yard chain measurement for first downs with a virtual system. The new system uses Sony's Hawk-Eye technology and six 8K cameras in each stadium to optically ...

The National Football League is replacing its on-field "chain gang" crew with a new innovative technology to decide ball placement and first downs during games next season. During the league's annual ...

This is an excerpt of the original article. It was written for the January-February 2024 edition of Supply Chain Management Review. The full article is available to current subscribers. Back in 2019, ...

The NFL will use technology for virtual line-to-gain measurements next season, but officials will continue to spot the ball. “The goal is for it to come online in 2025,” Kimberly Fields, the NFL’s ...

When it’s time to measure for a first down in the USFL, the officials will call for a high-tech solution in place of the decidedly low-tech 10-yard chains that have been used in football for a century ...

Measurements are reportedly going to look a bit different during the 2025 NFL season. NFL Network's Mike Garafolo reported Wednesday that the Hawk-Eye virtual measurement for line to gain will be the ...

How do you measure the environmental impact of a product? Is it simply how long it exists before it decomposes or how much energy it takes to produce it? Who is responsible for that impact: the one ...

For more than a century, British cycling teams underperformed on the world’s biggest stages—the Olympics and Tour de France. Since the inaugural Olympics, they had won only a handful of gold medals, ...