Reading Time: 4 minutes The league has a new deal with players, free-agency frenzy begins this week and big-time bargaining for TV rights is on the horizon
Tag: Football
Short and sweet: pro sports need to pare down the length of games
Reading Time: 4 minutes Fans are staying away from stadiums in great part because the games take too long to play. The new XFL is trying a number of modifications to cut the length of games
NFL coaches need to embrace data and probability
Reading Time: 4 minutes If coaching has a capital offence, its ignoring the obvious probabilities that a good analysis could provide
How do we make sense of, and manage, football’s violence?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Head-first tackles, helmet swinging and devastating hip injuries all add to a game’s growing reputation for chaos
Finally, NCAA must compensate its athletes
Reading Time: 4 minutes And it will have ramifications for Canadian student athletes and the hockey leagues that compete with U.S. colleges for talent
Progress? Sport? The two shall never meet
Reading Time: 4 minutes From disputed strike zones to goal-line uncertainty to bloody high-sticks, major-league officiating can’t seem to embrace high-tech
Economic justice on the way for U.S. college athletes
Reading Time: 4 minutes The hypocrisy in college athletics promotes the amateur myth and tries to suppress the fact that the young athletes have significant market value
Fans’ expectations of athletes are out of whack
Reading Time: 3 minutes Those who booed retiring Indianapolis Colt Andrew Luck should be ashamed of themselves. Athletes aren’t warriors created by central casting for our weekend enjoyment
Video replay: is the solution worse than the crime?
Reading Time: 3 minutes We can’t go back to spitballing the big calls. For the teams and the fans, too much depends on getting it right
Causing a commotion based on innocent colours
Reading Time: 3 minutes What’s in a name? Apparently plenty when it comes to sports teams and imaginary slights