By Daniel Adler This summer, I spent a week in mid-July in East Texas teaching SAT math at a football/life skills/SAT camp founded by Detroit Lions Assistant Secondary Coach (and Harvard Law+Kennedy school alum), Daron Roberts...
By Daniel Adler Which athlete is the furthest from the rest of his sport? Barry Bonds and his four seasons with on-base-percentages above .500 springs to mind. So does Wilt Chamberlain and his 1961-62 season in which he...
Let’s try a thought experiment. Imagine that we still have a salary cap, but no maximum salary (similar to the NFL). Would LeBron, Bosh, and Wade be so willing to take A LOT less money to play together? True, they may...
Our sports inclined friends over at the law school have been very busy recently. In addition to hosting visits from guests like NBPA head Billy Hunter and MLBPA chief Michael Weiner and organizing a sports law symposium on the...
By David Roher More than half of the teams in the NBA make the playoffs year. This makes a lot of the drama at the season’s conclusion about seeds. Having a 3 instead of a 4 or a 6 instead of a 7 could dramatically alter...
HSAC was thrilled to be joined by ESPN.com senior college basketball writer Andy Katz at its latest meeting. Just nine days removed from one of the wildest NCAA tournaments in recent memory, Katz spoke to the club about next...
By David Roher I’m very excited to announce the HSAC blog’s first giveaway contest. David Berri was nice enough to send us a few complementary copies of his and Martin Schmidt’s new book, Stumbling on Wins...
By Jake Fisher This Saturday, two No. 5 seeds, Butler and Michigan State, will kick off Final Four weekend. Butler, the Cinderella out of the Horizon League, is on a 24-game winning streak. Michigan State has beaten the odds as a...
By Ben Blatt Some people believe that baseball faces a serious parity problem. While most would acknowledge that the root of the problem is in unequal payrolls, the position of many owners and the player’s union makes it...
By David Roher There are over nine quintillion ways to fill out your bracket, and over four hundred trillion ways to predict the first two rounds alone. Based on the craziness of the first four days of the tournament, I bet you...