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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.

MIT in league with NBA, MLB, etc.

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:21:13 -0400

MIT in league with NBA, MLB, etc.

Really, there's a journal for that?

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:00:32 -0400

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 Mathematical Economics, the degree Alamar earned at UCSB.

Alamar recently analyzed which baseball teams will benefit most from the addition of two more teams to the MLB playoffs.

Some might say lawyers are the Ultimate Fighters . . .

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:08:18 -0500

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.

Kevin McGuire leverages his law degree and personal experience...

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:28:27 -0500

Kevin 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?

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:54:47 -0500

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.

Looking for an IT job? How about designing intelligent cleats...

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 09:39:50 -0400

Looking for an IT job? How about designing intelligent cleats like this at Adidas? Have a pro athlete give you a tour of the jobs, or browse on your own.

Even Yankees fans know statistics!

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:05:50 -0400

Even Yankees fans know statistics!

Comparing A-Rod to Lou G. using physics. Really.

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:35:38 -0400

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

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:12:38 -0400

Moneyball--the Movie--the WIRED mag review

Telling stories at Fenway Park … for a living!

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:17:58 -0400

Telling stories at Fenway Park … for a living!

An Athademic gets more academic

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 23:31:24 -0400

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.

If you want a career in sports, do some research.

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:13:53 -0400

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 else must be driving it.

And there must be dozens of people making the Women’s World Cup happen.

The Tour? Every rider must have at least two support people behind him.

Find the jobs and leave a comment with the results of your research. What did people study to get those jobs? What was their prior experience? Were they all competitors in those sports?

Students and fast Porsches

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 20:47:14 -0400

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 the academic success of students from difficult circumstances who entered our classroom, our school, or the program our policy changes made possible. Or maybe it was someone else’s classroom, school or program.

But, who’s ultimately responsible for kids succeeding?

As I think about this, I notice a Porsche cresting the hill and barreling toward me.

Is it my job to stay in the left lane and force the Porsche to slow down?

Kids are like that Porsche. They’re full of energy and power. I can either slow them down, or I can get out of the way and create the space for them to blow by.

A little math before the big match at Wembley

Tue, 24 May 2011 13:54:00 -0400

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?

Spring is here and it’s time to refresh your understanding...

Tue, 24 May 2011 13:46:00 -0400

on Public Media.

Spring 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

Tue, 24 May 2011 13:29:15 -0400

Football teaches business in Barcelona

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Wed, 18 May 2011 17:40:36 -0400