8 posts tagged “basketball”
Zaza don't want none...
Good article by the Freakonomics guys on the use of stats in basketball, specifically with the Celtics:
I like these "hypothetical" situations, so much so that I may try to incorporate them into the summer training. At the very least, I've found next month's blog topic. In any event, here is another one:
Here are my picks starting with the Elite Eight (I'm too lazy to type in all 64):
Received the check from Morgan Freeman's Rock River Foundation for MacBook's for the incoming first-years. Here is the thank-you movie we made last year:
In the spring of 1993, my senior year of high school, I interned for Senator Kennedy, taking the train everyday from Baltimore to DC and back again.
One evening, I picked up Harper's Magazine from the Union Station magazine stand
(Hudson News), intrigued by a cover story on basketball. It was a long article about a high school team from Coney Island that included a young Stephon Marbury. The author, Darcy Frey, later turned this article into an acclaimed book: The Last Shot.
"Each year, 500,000 or so young men play high-school basketball in this country. Each year, less than 1 percent of them get a Division I scholarship."
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