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Chapter 3

ARENAS, FIELDS, AND FANS

A thletes turn to tech to improve their skills. Teams and leagues use tech to make the games more fair. Are- nas, stadiums, and fields are also packed with technology. Any stadium worth its popcorn has Wi-Fi for every fan, along with video score- boards that provide crystal-clear replays and highlights. Fans in some stadiums have mini- monitors at their seats where they can choose video feeds, camera angles, or even play trivia games. Locker rooms at many modern arenas are wired to the teeth, with individual screens in each locker for players to study video (or play a video game). Any venue in which sports are played is now a hotbed of technology.

Modern scoreboards are packed with tech, from real-time scoring to video to mov- ing screens.

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