07 2025 April
How NFL’s New 8k “Hawk Eye” Cameras Offer an Interesting Model for Truth and Verification
Rather than relying on chains and the human eye to measure whether teams have achieved a first down in NFL football games next season, the...
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The Super Bowl Halftime Show Went Over Many People’s Heads. Here’s What It Meant …
Recently it seems like stories about social media often center on the negative impact of various platforms making it easy to spread misinformation, fuel hate...
Read Now06 2024 November
Why Are Baseball Players Always Eating Something?
I watched a baseball game last night for the first time in a year. I know that exactly because the last time I sat through...
Read Now14 2024 October
The First Profession to Be Replaced by Robots Could Be … Sports Referees?
In theory, a robotic referee would never miss a call, show bias or be bribed. It would make decisions instantly and eliminate the sometimes-agonizing wait...
Read Now03 2024 October
The Surprising Appeal of the Lovable Loser
The Chicago White Sox are having a historically bad season. Like, a season that could be the worst in the history of baseball. It’s so...
Read Now09 2024 August
Best & Worst Marketing Ideas from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
It’s time for another review of the best and worst of the Olympic Games marketing. This isn’t a complete list but some of my initial...
Read Now08 2024 August
Four Entirely Predictable Olympic Stories That Happen Every Time
Anyone who follows the Olympics knows there are some media narratives that happen every four years and always turn out the same. There are myths and then...
Read Now07 2024 August
Women’s Athletics Are a Big Story at Paris 2024 … But Equality Remains a Challenge
This is the first Olympics which will have true parity in terms of male versus female athletes and competitors. It’s a big story here at the...
Read Now05 2024 August
The Best Part of the Olympics You Don’t Get to See … Country Houses
For me, every Olympics has different highlights, from being one of the few non-athletes allowed in the Olympic Village in Beijing to watching Usain Bolt complete a...
Read Now12 2024 July
How Global Sports Are Showcasing a Surprising Upside of Immigration
This summer is a back-to-back sports frenzy in my household. It started with the T20 Cricket World Cup, followed closely by two major soccer tournaments:...
Read Now13 2024 May
The Most Idiotic Idea in America Is Getting Worse … and No One Seems Ready to Change It
Here’s an oversimplified but basically accurate sales pitch for publicly funded stadiums: you (the taxpayer) give millions of dollars in tax incentives to pay for...
Read Now15 2024 April
Augmented Reality Comes to Sports, Thanks to Wrestlemania
Last weekend The Rock made his return to wrestling and a “new era” for the sport was on display at WWE’s Wrestlemania 40 event. The...
Read Now15 2024 February
The Man Who Wants to Make Extreme Chair Sitting a Competitive Sport
The first time Robby Silk tried his luck at competitive sitting, he lasted only three hours in the Arizona heat. Several years later and during the pandemic,...
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