Tag: NBA
The Kobe legacy: Should the NBA let high school players skip...
Nicole Kraft, The Ohio State University
Less than a decade after 18-year-old Kobe Bryant got drafted into the NBA in 1996, the league made all...
Why losing Kobe Bryant felt like losing a relative or friend
Edward R. Hirt, Indiana University
On the afternoon of Jan. 26, I was at the Indiana men’s basketball game when a chorus of cellphones in...
What really causes home field advantage – and why it’s on...
Konstantinos Pelechrinis, University of Pittsburgh
Never before has the away team won every single game in the World Series, but that’s exactly what happened this...
Why it matters that more athletes are talking about their mental...
John Affleck, Pennsylvania State University
The great basketball writer Jackie MacMullan recently stood at the front of a hotel ballroom in Tampa taking questions after...
For many NBA players, finding a better high school was critical...
Rob Book, University of Southern Denmark
When University of Southern California freshman Kevin Porter, Jr., became a first-round NBA draft pick on June 20, he...
Stiff muscles are a counterintuitive superpower of NBA athletes
Philip Anloague, University of Dayton
For most people, the term “stiffness” has negative connotations. When you wake up in the morning complaining of a “stiff...
The pitfalls of the narcissistic NBA player
Emily Grijalva, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Why do star players sometimes hurt their team’s performance?
Last season, the Boston Celtics...
Women are better than men at the free throw line
Larry M. Silverberg, North Carolina State University
As basketball season comes into full swing, consider another competition – the one between the blue and pink...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
