Category: Applied Sports Science

Sports Science: Week in Review, Nov 7-Nov 13

The US-Mexico soccer game brought out a bunch of Christian Pulisic where-did-he-come-from articles: How was the next star of American soccer, Christian Pulisic, created? (Pro Soccer Talk, Joe Prince-Wright) Christian Pulisic opens up about rise at Borussia Dortmund and U.S. national team (The Washington Post) Das American: Christian Pulisic’s Spectacular Rise (VICE Sports) Christian Pulisic: […]

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Sports Science: Week in Review, Oct 24-Oct 30

Believe something positively affects your performance, practically anything, and it can actually enhance your performance, that’s what Brad Stulberg writes in a blog post for the Science of Us blog at the New York Magazine website. Stulberg includes a point made by David Martin and Shona Halson that “the exercise-science community should stop overlooking the […]

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Sports Science: Week in Review, Oct 17-Oct 23

The first age of sports analysis is closing, the era that Bill James originated and which depended solely on numbers, statistical analysis and truth-telling. We’re entering the second era where the technology that enables data capture is as critical as the analysis. Two categories of sensor technologies matter most. Wearable sensors attach to athletes or […]

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Sports Science: Week in Review, Oct 3-Oct 9

Sports science is a complex solution to the complex problem of athlete health and performance. Unfortunately the perception of sports science is that of next big things, secret weapons and magic bullets. It should not be a secret that sleep and recovery and nutrition can contribute significantly to on-field performance. There are also emerging technologies […]

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Sports Science: Week in Review, Sep 26-Oct 2

Data analysis has become a core element of sports journalism. Normally it’s evidence in support of an insight, like a younger athlete’s rise or an older athlete’s decline. Sometimes, like this week, you see stories where the analysis is the story. Analytics-centric journalism often points to a revolution in progress: college football, baseball fielding, basketball […]

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