Friday, September 23 2011
The Bad News Statisticians: ‘Moneyball’
There’s an ugly and unromantic truth behind Bennett Miller’s baseball stats semi-comedy Moneyball that it acknowledges and then dances away from.
Thursday, February 18 2010
ESPN: Changing the Way Americans Think About Sports
ESPN changed the course of American sports culture by providing access to national and international events 24 hours per day and cultivating the entertainment potential of sporting events and personalities.
Tuesday, October 21 2008
LeBron James and the Beat Book
If beat reporters keep churning out books on 'Bron, why aren't we learning anything? These books represent the current state of the beat book -- and indicate it may be in serious trouble.
Wednesday, April 16 2008
Major League Baseball 2K8
MLB 2K8 has gone the innovation route, overhauling many standards of the baseball sim, making it an interesting experiment in what baseball games can be.
Wednesday, December 12 2007
Smash Court Tennis 3
Smash Court Tennis 3 lies in the murky middle ground between Wii Sports' tennis and Virtua Tennis, neither excelling in any particular area nor really doing that much wrong.
Wednesday, December 5 2007
Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis
Although the Wii version of Table Tennis offers players three separate control schemes, none seem to take full advantage of the Wii remote.
Monday, November 12 2007
NBA 08
The biggest complaint is not with gameplay, but with the fact that there are players missing from rosters.
Wednesday, July 11 2007
Scoring from Second by Philip F. Deaver [Editor]
Even the very best baseball players convert only three or four of every ten at bats into base hits. Perhaps Deaver can find some sort of poetic consolation in that statistic.
