Tag: sports
A world without sports
Lars Dzikus, University of Tennessee
Baseball’s opening day came and went. The Olympics have been postponed. Football in the fall? Don’t count on it.
With COVID-19...
Can gambling juice fandom for women’s sports?
Adam Cohen, University of Technology Sydney and Lindsey Darvin, State University of New York College at Cortland
Every March Madness, thousands of tweets...
This isn’t the first time sports teams have played in eerily...
Chris Lamb, IUPUI
The NBA decided that it will suspend its season after a player on the Utah Jazz tested positive for the coronavirus, just...
Girls are reaching new heights in basketball, but huge pay gaps...
Corinne M. Daprano, University of Dayton and Leslie H. Picca, University of Dayton
Women have made great strides in the world of sports over the...
On the 100th anniversary of the Negro Leagues, a look back...
Rob Ruck, University of Pittsburgh
During the half century that baseball was divided by a color line, black America created a sporting world of its...
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...
How gambling built baseball – and then almost destroyed it
Rebecca Edwards, Rochester Institute of Technology
Imagine if, after watching the thrilling victory of the Chicago Cubs in Game 7 of the 2016 World Series...
Curious Kids: How does a curveball curve?
Jim Gregory, The Ohio State University
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert...
EXPLORING NATURE
Don’t just plant trees, plant forests to restore biodiversity for the future
John Parker, Smithsonian Institution and Justin Nowakowski, Smithsonian Institution
Around the world, people plan to plant more than 1...
