Category: Sports

July 14, 2016

When the Empire Struck Back

Ronojoy Sen discusses the historic victory in 1911 of an Indian team over a British regimental team in the final of what was then India’s premier soccer tournament, the IFA Shield.

May 28, 2015

Presence of Mind and Kobe Bryant's Jump Shot — William Duggan's "The 7th Sense"

William Duggan, author of “The Seventh Sense: How Flashes of Insight Change Your Life,” explains how presence of mind changed Kobe Bryant’s jump shot.

February 19, 2014

The Olympics, Large Sporting Events, and Recalibrating the Discussion on Human Trafficking (It’s Not Just For Sex, People) — Stephanie Hepburn

The following post is by Stephanie Hepburn, coauthor of Human Trafficking Around the World: Hidden in Plain Sight: In preparation for the Winter Olympics this month and the Paralympic Games in March, Russia has spent an estimated (U.S.) $51 billion...

August 23, 2013

On Being a Sports Statistician: more interviews with Ben Alamar

This week our featured book is Sports Analytics: A Guide for Coaches, Managers, and Other Decision Makers, by Benjamin C. Alamar, with a foreword by Dean Oliver. Today, the last day of our book giveaway, we have an excerpt from...

August 22, 2013

Interviews with Ben Alamar

This week our featured book is Sports Analytics: A Guide for Coaches, Managers, and Other Decision Makers, by Benjamin C. Alamar, with a foreword by Dean Oliver. Today, we have a couple of great interviews with Ben Alamar, one with...

August 21, 2013

Benjamin Alamar: "Analytics Is Not a Strategy"

Read “Analytics Is Not a Strategy,” By Benjamin Alamar, author of Sports Analytics.

August 20, 2013

An Introduction to Sports Analytics – Benjamin C. Alamar

Read the introduction to Benjamin Alamar’s Sports Analytics!

August 8, 2013

Benjamin Alamar Discusses Sports Analytics

Today at 4:00 (EST) Benjamin Alamar, author of Sports Analytics: A Guide for Coaches, Managers, and Other Decision Makerswill take part in #cloudchat to discuss how Big Data, the cloud, and analytics are changing sports. Among the other guests will...

March 7, 2013

Ben Alamar Discusses Sports Analytics with Grantland

Zach Lowe from Grantland recently interviewed Benjamin Alamar, author of Sports Analytics: A Guide for Coaches, Managers, and Other Decision Makers . They interview took place at the annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference or “Nerd Fest 2013”. Alamar, who...

February 5, 2013

Avidan Milevsky on the Harbaugh Sibling Rivalry

For those of you suffering from the prospect of six months without football, we give you one last look at the Super Bowl via Avidan Milevsky, Baltimore Raven fan and author of Sibling Relationships in Childhood and Adolescence: Predictors and...

July 14, 2010

A Chronology of George Steinbrenner

With yesterday’s news of George Steinbrenner’s death, we thought we would highlight some of the highlights (and lowlights) from his remarkable run as owner of the New York Yankees. The dates and events are taken from The Greater New York...

January 22, 2010

Go Jets!

This Sunday the New York Jets have a chance to return to the Super Bowl for the first time since 1969. On the other hand, they can also add another loss to a series of disappointments in their long history....