skynet - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights

Is a Sentient AI Trying to Destroy the Pittsburgh Pirates?It was always going to be a trudge for the Pittsburgh Pirates. They are the only team in the NL Central not at least making an effort to win. They’ve been stripped of almost any recognizable players. Their fans have to watch Austin Meadows and Tyler Glasnow anchor the competitive Rays while Chris Ar...

I Can't Stop Watching This Dude Try To Hit A 186-MPH Fastball Ever wondered what it'd be like to stand in against a big-league hurler? Yeah, this is kinda like that, but if the hurler was, like, a Terminator or something. Here's former Japanese ballplayer Takeshi Yamasaki, trying to get his bat around on a nearly 200-mph fastball (the fun starts at around ...

The U.S. Military Has Built A Robot That Runs Faster Than Usain Bolt Fifty years from now, let's not pretend we didn't see the warning signs. They were there the whole time. Hell, this post is a warning sign. DARPA, the wing of the Department of Defense that makes all the coolest shit everyday people don't usually get to see, has released this video of Cheetah, a f...

"Cy-ber Young," A 200-Pound Robot, Threw Out Tonight's First Pitch In Detroit

When the robot army eventually rises up and enslaves all of Earth's citizens some years from now, I hope we all have the foresight to remember this day, when a 200-pound robot named "Cy-ber Young" took the mound at Comerica Park and showed that it could accurately hit a target with a baseball. It ...

Kentucky Will Win The National Championship, According To 4 Billion Computer Simulations

Ah, computers. Is there nothing they can't simulate?...