Sports and STEM

  1. Baseball Pitch Recognition Featured at MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

    For most of us growing up, there were two distinct groups of students in our high schools: the Jocks and the Brains. While they pretended not to like each other, there was an unspoken mutual respect...

    Dan Peterson Written by Dan Peterson about 3 months ago 196 reads 2 comments

  2. Oakland Raiders: Carson Palmer, His Choice to Change Is His Claim to Fame

    Early this Sunday morning some commentators were discussing Carson Palmer and the controversy about how he handled his situation with the Bengals . Let's look at it differently...

    Damali Binta YAEL Written by Damali Binta YAEL about 7 months ago 263 reads 2 comments

  3. Youth Athletes: Video Games, Building Blocks and Your Brain's Dark Energy

    To get your budding superstar ready for his sports future, should they play with high tech video games or good old building blocks? Well, according to two new studies, that depends ...

    Dan Peterson Written by Dan Peterson about 7 months ago 54 reads 0 comments

  4. Transitions Have Whetted the Ambitions of Mike Shelton, an NFL Aspirant

    Transitions can spur strength Sometimes setbacks are simply a setup for a better future. Michael Shelton can tell you that he has had a few challenges, but he is determined to make it to the NFL ...

    Damali Binta YAEL Written by Damali Binta YAEL about 10 months ago 132 reads 2 comments

  5. High School Football Player's Broken Neck Captured by Wired Helmet

    For the crowd watching an Illinois high school football game last fall, it was a sickening feeling watching one of their Unity Rockets cornerbacks collapse to the ground after delivering ...

    Dan Peterson Written by Dan Peterson about 10 months ago 230 reads 1 comments

  6. Heat Causes MLB Pitchers to Retaliate More with Beanballs

    Last week, the Cubs made a rare visit to Fenway Park to face the Red Sox in a Major League Baseball inter-league series...

    Dan Peterson Written by Dan Peterson about 1 year ago 47 reads 1 comments