May 2012
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http://m.espn.go.com/wireless/story?w=1brvm&storyId... →
That degree in engineering or your background in logistics might prepare you for the situation facing the Staples Center’s staff this weekend! Three sports, four events, two days.
March 2012
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MIT in league with NBA, MLB, etc. →
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Really, there's a journal for that?
Ben Alamar is an assistant professor of management at Menlo College and the founding editor of the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports.
He has written articles such as Who Controls the Plate? Isolating the Pitcher/Batter Subgame and The Passing Premium Puzzle.
How can you get a job like his? Easy, just find ways to sneak sports connections into your doctoral program in Public Finance and...
December 2011
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Some might say lawyers are the Ultimate Fighters .... →
As general counsel for The Ultimate Fighting Championship, Ike Lawrence Epstein isn’t worried about his safety, but his work as counsel to the UFC deals with fighter safety, as well as contracts, intellectual property, regulatory and political issues.
November 2011
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WatchKevin McGuire leverages his law degree and personal experience to help his clients, which include nearly all of the U.S. professional sports teams, make their venues accessible to people with disabilities. Read more about his work here.
High tech helmets no better than leather?
A recent study suggests that for the everyday hits football players absorb hundreds or thousands of times, new helmets are not any better than what players wore decades ago.
October 2011
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September 2011
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Even Yankees fans know statistics! →
Comparing A-Rod to Lou G. using physics. Really. →
“Using statistical physics theory, [Boston U. graduate student Alexander Petersen has] found a way to compare baseball players over the generations, whether they played in the dead-ball era in the early 1900s or the steroids era beginning in the 1990s.”
Moneyball--the Movie--the WIRED mag review →
August 2011
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WatchTelling stories at Fenway Park … for a living!
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An Athademic gets more academic
Elsa Cole, served as general counsel to the NCAA for more than a dozen years. While there, she talked about her career path and work combining the law through education and sports in this interview as part of Athademic. This year, she began working for the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, which focuses on urban education, childhood health and family economic stability.
July 2011
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If you want a career in sports, do some research.
You won’t have to look far.
My neighbor is finishing a fellowship in sports medicine at Vanderbilt. He spends most of his time helping out at Vanderbilt, Belmont, Lipscomb and other university sporting events—home and not too far away.
Someone must have designed ESPN’s Big Blue mobile broadcast station for the Women’s World Cup. Someone else must have built it, someone...
June 2011
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Students and fast Porsches
I was driving on I-40 West in Tennessee Friday.
I saw a bent guard rail on the freeway. Skid marks ended before the rail, and stains remained on the pavement.
I wondered what wreckage had been there and how permanent the damage had been.
I thought of the education conference I had attended earlier in the week, and the tendency of teachers, school leaders and policymakers to take credit for...
May 2011
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A little math before the big match at Wembley →
Dan Meyer, promoter of teachers being less helpful, challenges math teachers with a math problem and a teaching problem: is it always bad to play guess what the teacher’s thinking? If not, what do you do when all students guess v. when only one does?
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WatchSpring is here and it’s time to refresh your understanding of Bernoulli’s principle, fluid mechanics and all that other physics goodness happening on the diamond.
Football teaches business in Barcelona →
