The Important Thing Is to Win! Connecting Richard Nixon to the History of NBA Labor Negotiations

What the NBA is doing now is directly from their historical playbook.

The NBA makes up a story about losses.

They demand the players take less.

The media takes the NBA's side.

Players eventually cave.

The NBA does this because it always works!

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The Interaction of Biomechanics and Command - Driveline Baseball Velocity Training: A Brief History We were lucky enough to receive the Dr. Mike Marshall Pitching Biomechanics Research Award from ...read more

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This is absolutely fascinating

Would Okamoto qualify?

Ok now it’s officially getting carried away!

Good luck to everyone out there re-learning how to use a turkey carver today

Opinion | The W.N.B.A. Is Making More Money Than Ever. Why Aren’t the Players? (Gift Article) Other professional sports leagues give their players roughly 50 percent of the revenue, but the W.N.B.A. players get less than 10 percent.

Wrote this for the New York Times today (hope this link works!)

W.N.B.A. is doing immensely well! Time to pay the players!!

Thanks to Sara Chodosh for asking me to write this (helping with the writing) and making the cool graphics!!

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If I told you in 2017 that in the year 2025 you’d be watching Aaron Rodgers v Carson Wentz play an international Sunday morning football game, which two teams would you have thought you’d be watching and how many guesses would you have needed before coming up with Minnesota and Pittsburgh?

Elections have consequences

Restoring this website is not and will not be enough. This is an attempt to whitewash our shared national heritage and is an attack on one of America’s greatest citizens. This should be a national scandal and outrage.

Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.

Gutting Alzheimer's research.

First reported more than a week ago -- and as yet, this has not been undone. Republicans appear to have not said a word about it.

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Will you marry me? During the bye week, obviously. The Washington Post, smitten with football and love stories, analyzed data from The Knot to see how college football schedules impact wedding planning.

There's lots of conversation about weddings during college football season, but I wanted to see if a team's schedule *actually* made a difference in the number of weddings in a region on a date.

Bye weeks? Big games? Home vs. away? SEC vs. everyone else?

A data-driven analysis:

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