February 2011
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The Moneyball Generation
Last Wednesday night, in a cozy room inside Harvard’s Winthrop House, a group of 20 students gathered around a table to talk about sports. Wearing sweatshirts and a few days of stubble, they scarfed down Subway sandwiches and foil-wrapped burritos, though with soft green walls and a framed portrait above the fireplace, the space looked more appropriate for afternoon tea. This was the weekly...
The Moneyball Generation →
Here’s my story about the whiz kids of Harvard Sports Analysis Collective:
In a cozy room inside Harvard’s Winthrop House, a group of 20 students gathers around a table to talk about sports. Wearing sweatshirts and a few days of stubble, they scarf down subs and foil-wrapped burritos, though with soft green walls and a framed portrait above the fireplace, the space looks more...
“Seriously, who the [expletive] is Isiah kidding... →
Fast-casual. Some way of finding a menu that could... →
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Bringing Showtime To Duke
In the last 20 years, a stretch in which Duke has won four national championships, no program in college basketball has been better, or more polarizing, than coach Mike Krzyzewski’s. Duke was an underdog in the early 1990s, thrilling impartial observers by knocking off the sport’s establishment to win back-to-back NCAA Tournament titles. Those years have long seemed positively ancient. Now, as...
"...a Manhattan doctor who inherits a medical... →
