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Mathletics: How Gamblers, Managers, and Sports Enthusiasts Use Mathematics in Baseball, Basketball, and Football

Princeton Press, 2009

If you have picked up this book you surely love sports and you probably like math. You may have read Michael Lewis’s great book Moneyball, which describes how the Oakland A’s used mathematical analysis to help them compete successfully with the New York Yankees even though the average annual payroll for the A’s is less than 40...

Digital Sports Photography

Course Technology PTR, 2008

I fly a lot in my job. Frequently, people sitting next to me on the plane ask me what I do for a living. When I tell them that I am a sports photographer, their response is usually something like this: “Wow, what a great job!” They’re right. Sports photography really is a great job.

Asports photographer captures the...

49: Epidemiology of Pediatric Sports Injuries: Team Sports (Medicine and Sport Science, Vol. 49)

Karger, 2005

Is the risk of injury greater in some sport activities than in others? What types of injuries are most common? Are some children prone to sports injury? Are some physical, psychological, or sport-related factors associated with an increased risk of injury? Can injury be prevented and if so, how? Epidemiology of Pediatric Sport Injuries...