Soccer purists have long feared the āAmericanizationā of the game. But in one key respect, it is already happening: ownership.
Most people think they are open-minded and would like others to perceive that, but few of us are willing to consider that we are wrong.
What happens when the thing you’ve waited your whole life for finally arrives and the responsible thing is to stay home?Ā
Long before data-driven tools like Statcast and FanGraphs, university students were conducting research about baseball.
As part of a team of statisticians, I helped train a machine learning algorithm to predict the most likely course of the tournament.
The Knicksā playoff run has made them a symbol of effort, teamwork and perseverance in an era obsessed with optimization.
“For most of my life, being a Knicks fan wasnāt about basketball. Basketball was the excuse; the actual activity was suffering.”