Dorkapalooza 2010: Sloan Sports Analytics Conference Recap #ssac
It’s over. One of the great sports gatherings of the year has come to an end. The winter baseball meetings? No, that happened months ago. The NCAA tournament selection committee? That’s next week. The NFL Draft? Next month. The giant inflatable beavers of Vancouver? Excellent guess, but no. I’m talking about the 2010 MIT Sloan [...]
Read more »It’s All About the Data: Bloomberg Sports Launch Event Recap
Ah, data. No, this hasn’t turned into a Star Trek The Next Generation blog post. Data is the lifeblood of sports. And as data and analytics have become increasingly important in sports fields and arenas, of course it’s becoming big business. Enter Bloomberg. Yes, that Bloomberg. The same Bloomberg that changed the financial analysis game [...]
Read more »Shut up, haters. Derek Jeter is SI Sportsman of the Year.
Yeah, yeah, I can hear you all bitching and moaning. Derek Jeter is SI Sportsman of the Year? This year?
What’s that you say? Derek Jeter is a media darling? Who’s worse? Jeter, Favre or Tebow? (This was an actual debate on Twitter yesterday, and honestly Jeter has got nothing on Favre or Tebow).
Did you just [...]
Happy 40th Birthday, Mo
I have a lot of dates in my Blackberry calendar. Lunch dates. Doctor’s appointments. Dinner plans. Anniversaries. And birthdays. Lots and lots of birthdays. Birthdays of friends. Birthdays of friends’ kids. Birthdays of family members.
In all these dates – in all these birthdays – there’s only one birthday of someone I don’t know personally. Someone [...]
Bob Sheppard's 1st Lineup Card at Yankee Stadium – April 17, 1951
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