Category Archives: Sports

SIGNS OF SPRING.

Posted on February 15, 2007 by Philip

SIGNS OF SPRING. Pitchers and catchers report today.

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USING THE HELMET AS A WEAPON.

Posted on February 2, 2007 by Philip

USING THE HELMET AS A WEAPON. With better football helmets, the use of the head to make a hit, a kind of spearing with the helmet, has increased. The top of the helmet gives better protection than the side, so … Continue reading →

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FOOTBALL AND PREJUDICE.

Posted on February 1, 2007 by Philip

FOOTBALL AND PREJUDICE. A young African-American man told me fairly recently that he encountered racial prejudice almost every day. The Super Bowl will have a match up of two African-American coaches for the first time. Although a majority of the … Continue reading →

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MUSCLE MEMORY AND HOT HANDS FOR BASKETBALL PLAYERS.

Posted on January 30, 2007 by Philip

MUSCLE MEMORY AND HOT HANDS FOR BASKETBALL PLAYERS. I was really pleased to find the neuroscience blog of Jonah Lehrer. I looked at the archives. This is a consistently interesting blog. One of the posts described the famous study by … Continue reading →

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DO BASEBALL PLAYERS HAVE HOT STREAKS?

Posted on January 29, 2007 by Philip

DO BASEBALL PLAYERS HAVE HOT STREAKS? I had always refused to pay attention to the junk statistics on TV sports shows about players’ performances in the previous short run of games. “Small samples,” I sniffed. But last summer two bits … Continue reading →

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CACTUS JACK CURTICE’S UTAH PASS PLAY

Posted on January 2, 2007 by Philip

CACTUS JACK CURTICE’S UTAH PASS PLAY. Back in the fifties and sixties I often read about Cactus Jack Curtice’s Utah Pass Play, which was described as a short pass followed by a lateral. I had never seen it. On New … Continue reading →

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NBA ADJUSTED STANDINGS.

Posted on January 1, 2007 by Philip

NBA ADJUSTED STANDINGS. My son Nick suggested that I post my shorthand way of looking at the NBA standings. I take as par for a team that it wins all its home games and loses all its away games (“holding … Continue reading →

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THE QUESTION I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE ASKED

Posted on December 8, 2006 by Philip

THE QUESTION I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE ASKED. It was 25 years ago in December, 1981 in a bar in Greenwich Village. I was with my wife Mary Jane. There was a lovely heavy snow falling and the bar had … Continue reading →

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HOT STOVE LEAGUE–FREE AGENTS

Posted on November 25, 2006 by Philip

HOT STOVE LEAGUE—FREE AGENTS. I should note that after I said yesterday that the Bulls were unusually unbalanced toward defense, they went out and lost to Philadelphia, 123 to 108. Well, Charles Barkley also thinks they’re unbalanced toward defense. The … Continue reading →

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BASKETBALL–HOW IMPORTANT IS DEFENSE?

Posted on November 24, 2006 by Philip

BASKETBALL—HOW IMPORTANT IS DEFENSE?. The Bulls are running an experiment this year which should provide data on what for me is one of the great questions in basketball. The question is: Why don’t basketball journalists and fans give equal weight … Continue reading →

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