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Category: Sports

Data Reveals the Value of An Assist in Basketball

Sports

More than 90 percent of corner three-point shots are assisted, while shots above the break are assisted at a rate just above 70 percent.

Stiff Muscles Are a Counter-Intuitive Superpower of NBA Athletes

Sports
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For elite athletes like professional basketball players, muscle stiffness is not only something that is necessary, you could say it’s their superpower.

What’s Really Behind Baseball’s Home Run Surge?

Sports

It seems that recent changes to the ball are playing a role in the uptick in home runs. Other factors are the climate and advanced analytics.

How the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings Turned Baseball Into a National Sensation

Sports

The Cincinnati Red Stockings became the first professional baseball team in 1869 and went on to win an unprecedented 81 straight games.

Transfer Deadline Medicals – How Inaccurate Tests May Lead To Clubs Making the Wrong Decisions About Players

Sports

Premier League clubs paid £217m in wages to injured players in 2017-2018. So financially, football clubs need to ensure a footballer can actually play.

Green Bay Packers Fans Love That Their Team Doesn’t Have an Owner – Just Don’t Call It Communism

Sports

The Green Bay Packers are the only team with a president instead of an owner. All its money goes back to the community, the fans. A pioneering model.

What the Toronto Raptors Have Taught Us About Resilience

Sports
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The Toronto Raptors have won their first NBA title in franchise history, and their star player, Kawhi Leonard, was crowned the most valuable player.

Baseball Teams Need To Protect Fans From Foul Balls

Sports

Injuries occur much more frequently than many may realize. A 2014 analysis found that more than 1,750 fans are hurt each year by batted balls at MLB games.

Statistics Ruined Baseball by Perfecting It

Sports

Since sportswriter Henry Chadwick popularized the box score in the 19th century, baseball fans have had a love affair with statistics.

Chelsea Is Using Our Artificial Intelligence Research for Smarter Football Coaching

Sports
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Researchers are working with Chelsea football academy to develop a system to measure decision-making skills using artificial intelligence (AI).

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  • NATO Declares Outer Space an ‘Operational Domain’

    After declaring space a war zone, NATO could start using space weapons that can destroy satellites or incoming enemy missiles.

  • FCC Orders Phone Companies to End Robocalls

    The FCC released new rules aiming to combat spoofed robocalls. They require phone companies to implement a new protocol.

  • Negative Interest Rates Will Not Fix the Global Economy

    Would you deposit one pound with a bank today if it was going to give you back less than one pound tomorrow?

  • The US Is Worried About Its Critical Minerals Supply Chains

    When U.S. companies build military weapons systems, electric vehicle batteries, satellites and wind turbines, they rely heavily on a few dozen “critical minerals” – many of which are mined and refined almost entirely by other countries. Building a single F-35A fighter jet, for example, requires at least 920 pounds of rare earth elements that come primarily from China.

  • Why the New Trillions Did Not Cause Hyperinflation?

    The Fed issues as much dollars as needed by writing the new trillions on its balance sheet. These new trillions are channeled usually via government bond buying or through the banking system.

    The US government designs its economic policies in a way that makes its trade balance of payments always negative (by large values). Therefore, trillions keep flowing overseas (to pay China, EU, Japan etc for the imported goods and services).

    Moreover, the US coerces foreign governments to trade between each others in USD; especially for oil and gas. In this way, the ‘excess’ dollars keep circulating worldwide.

  • Japan to Build Wooden Satellites to Avoid Space Junk

    Sumitomo Forestry, a Japanese wood processing company, has started developing wooden satellites, in partnership with Kyoto University.

    The project is proposed as a solution to the space junk problem. Thus, end-of-life wooden satellites would fully burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere without leaving any harmful debris.

  • A Global Shortage Highlights a Troubling Trend: A Small Number of the World’s Chips Are Made In the US

    It might not seem important that 88% of the semiconductor chips used by U.S. industries, including the automotive and defense industries, are fabricated outside the U.S. However, three issues make where they are made critical to the U.S. as the global leader in electronics: lower capability, high global demand and limited investment.

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