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Baseball is all about the acronyms and the link to other acronyms

May 7th, 2013 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

 

Organizational Architecture of College Sports Behind the Scandals
Maintaining a Credible Threat – thesportseconomist

Is Your Team’s Owner a Major League Asshole? – motherjones
Segura’s baserunning adventures [video] – mlb
MLB uniforms 2013 – flipflopflyball
Can money buy baseball glory? [interactive] – latimes
Team-building with Billy Beane and Theo Epstein – providencejournal
Why the [...]

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a cardboard cutout crossed with an Etch A Sketch

April 4th, 2013 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

 

Mad About the Cost of TV? Blame Sports – theatlantic

The Screwball Economics of Major League Baseball – miaminewtimes
The rise and fall of A-Rod – jposnanski   nbcsports
Depth, Platoons, and Versatility: (yet another) New “Moneyball” – athleticsnation

What Are the Falcons Worth to Atlanta? – thesportseconomist

    DrB 2005 mix flashbacks:
     Monochrome [...]

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The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along.

February 22nd, 2013 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

Soccer’s New Match-Fixing Scandal – grantland

Morning Glory: Bak Bak’s search for a home – dailycal
A Film Analysis of Sonny Dykes’ Diamond Formation, Part One: The Numbers Game
A Film Analysis of Sonny Dykes’ Diamond Formation, Part Two: Baiting the Defense – californiagoldenblogs

The 12-6 Self-Awareness of Barry Zito: Getting A Grip and [...]

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a little more cruising down the highway, and a little less doing crystal meth on New Year’s

October 31st, 2012 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

   Spotlight on the WFTDA: 2012

  Super Bowl L: Mayor Lee Makes Dubious Claims of Economic Boost – sfweekly

  Alternative Ownership Models on Display in Soccer – sportseconomist

  High-Speed Video Clips from the 2012 NLCS and World Series – physicsofbaseball
  An Analysis of Hunter Pence’s “Triple Double” – physicsofbaseball
  Pitching Grips – How To [...]

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It’s only class warfare when poor people do it.

September 12th, 2012 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

 

One Race, Every Medalist Ever – nytimes

NCAA: Posturing and Power-Grabbing – thesportseconomist
Supply and Demand 1, Gary Bettman 0 – thesportseconomist

  The (Subjective) Art Of Keeping Score – baseball-prose
  GifCap, Eric Chavez: “Hey. Hey. Hey! Ooooh…” – chadmoriyama

  Cal vs. Nevada Post-Mortem Analysis – californiagoldenblogs
  Cal’s Two-Back Read-Option–A Play Analysis – californiagoldenblogs
  Rewinding [...]

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Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube.

August 2nd, 2012 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

 

The Heretic – themorningnews
Shag
National Priorities Project: Bringing the Federal Budget home
SNESbox
Kottke
Athletic body diversity reference for artists – intergalacticmessages
Kids Count datacenter
Lumosity: Brain Games & Brain Training
Brian Shaw, the Strongest Man in the World – newyorker
Both Sides of the Table
The Sideshow
One With The Water [video] [...]

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Nobody here but us not-spring chickens.

July 19th, 2012 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

 
  Two new DrBeeper 2012 samplers :
    Kappa5   [download]
Continuing down the 2012 path

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    Kappa6   [download]
2012, step by step by step

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2002 : Bubble Town
2004 : Let the games begin
2005 : Thor rolls a joint
2011 : The Electric Dock Ellis Acid Test

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Think of a number; divide it by 2

July 3rd, 2012 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

  Superbowl XLV Film Study, Part 1: Aaron Rodgers Knows Best
  Superbowl XLV Film Study, Part 2: Aaron Rodgers Still Knows Best
  Superbowl XLV Film Study, Part 3: Disguising the Defense – hydrotech   californiagoldenblogs
  Debate: College Football Should Be Banned – slate
  Offensive Play: How different are dogfighting and football? (2009) – mgladwell   [...]

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When U love somebody and bite your tongue all you get is a mouthful of blood

April 3rd, 2012 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

  Billy Beane Spring Training 2012 Interview: Part 1   Part 2 – athleticsnation
  To Shift or Not To Shift – actasports
  Young Arms and Curveballs: A Scientific Twist – nytimes
  Mets owners make major moves – krosenthal
 
  Film Study: Creating Pass Rush Lanes & Alleys –
  Film Study: Identifying Coverages & Identifying [...]

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Every form of prohibition merely creates another underground or three.

March 6th, 2012 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

Let’s Start Paying College Athletes – nytimes
The Cost to Punting – thesportseconomist
    (2009) Belechick Understands Probability Better than Media

 

Whatever Happened to the Spitball? – grantland
For Mets, Vast Debt and Not a Lot of Time – nytimes
AL suddenly has six super teams – krosenthal
2011 MLB Salaries See 3% Increase – [...]

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