Football play-calling software  GoRout has raised $500,000 from Minnesota-based venture capital firm Traction Capital. GoRout ’s product includes a screen worn on players’ waists during practices that visualizes play calls sent by coaches.   The company previously raised $1 m…

Scott Clarke & Joe Faraoni / ESPN Images Two major college teams will use technology to improve practices this season, and more could soon follow. GoRout , which provides small, wearable screens that enable coaches to wirelessly send plays and information to players on the practice fi…

Mike Rolih was just a limo driver with an idea. One day, he picked up a passenger who changed his life. An All-State quarterback from Chicago, Rolih was visiting a friend who coached junior college football in Rochester, Minn. — a town just south of the Twin Cities. He was shocked that in th…

GoRout , Mobile Virtual Player (MVP) and Windpact won the NFL’s second annual 1st and Future technology event, a “Shark Tank”-style competition among nine companies. GoRout makes sideline devices to streamline coach-to-player communications; MVP produces mobile tackling dummies; and Windpact cre…

Image via GoRout If you manage to catch a glance at one of Michigan’s football practice sessions this pre-season, don’t be startled. At first it may seem like the players are carrying their iPhones around at training, regularly checking for text messages or snapchats. Well don’t be alarme..