Reading Time: 4 minutes If coaching has a capital offence, its ignoring the obvious probabilities that a good analysis could provide
Tag: NFL
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
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
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
Coming to grips with the gay reality in sports locker rooms
Reading Time: 4 minutes Professional male sports teams are a cross-section of many cultures. But the idea that they agree about much beyond winning is a fabrication. It’s time to open up.
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
Hall of shame sports owners led by Ottawa’s Melnyk
Reading Time: 5 minutes Far too many odious owners haunt the world of professional sports, preying on ticket-buying fans
Baseball must embrace its uniqueness and stay retro
Reading Time: 4 minutes Every time MLB moves away from its history, tradition and nostalgia, the game doesn’t improve a little, it dies a little
The fundamental flaw in coaching by instinct
Reading Time: 4 minutes Analytical detail determines winners and losers. So why do coaches insist on winging it at crucial moments?
Is gambling a big deal to the NFL? You can bet on it
Reading Time: 4 minutes With billions now being bet legally on sports, the simple outcome of the Super Bowl game will no longer be the only story