Sports+science:
The shocking answer is YES. Here's today's story in the NY Times in which Frankie Andreu and another former domestique (anonymous) of Lance Armstrong admitted to using EPO during the 1999 Tour. Now, I have been very critical of the...
Posted on September 12, 2006 11:10 AM • 0 Comments
So once again doping authorities play a binary, black-and-white game with doping when the testing system appears to be anything but. If you haven't heard, Marion Jones tested positive for EPO recently, and coming on the heels of her guilt-by-association...
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Posted on September 7, 2006 11:38 AM • 3 Comments
I've alluded to it before, but never really explained it. In the battle between Lance Armstrong and Dick Pound, or the battle between any athlete and Dick Pound, I side with the athlete. Now that Dick got top/front page billing...
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Posted on August 8, 2006 4:27 PM • 2 Comments
The current Landis affair is a great example of the intersection of sports and science. As two camps have gelled up -- the officialdom camp of HE DID IT! and the Landis I DIDN'T DO IT! camp -- both sides...
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Posted on August 5, 2006 11:11 PM • 2 Comments
A few days ago the Times ran another aluminum bat in baseball story. The background is that every so often a youth baseball pitcher (sometimes even a college player) gets tagged by a batted ball and killed. When the batter...
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Posted on July 21, 2006 12:12 PM • 5 Comments
I guess you had to know that Viagra Found to Help High-Altitude Athletes. Me, I play between 5000 and 8000 feet so I'm not sure it'll do me any good, since they were testing at 12K and above....
Posted on June 28, 2006 9:45 AM • 1 Comments
I can't remember the passage, but one of those books raised an interesting specter of scientist vs. athlete. Now that studying the physics of sports is all the rage, scientists have begun using science to debunk "myths" held by athletes....
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Posted on June 26, 2006 7:55 PM • 8 Comments
The first post in this series (it wasn't a series then but it is now) was a flashback on Chapter 5 of the fabulous Moneyball by Michael Lewis. In this post I'm mopping up the rest of the book, tracking...
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Posted on June 20, 2006 12:54 AM • 0 Comments
If you're reading this blog and you're a sports fan and you haven't read Moneyball, what the hell is the matter with you? You don't need to be a baseball fan, just a sports fan and the kind of person...
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Posted on June 13, 2006 6:45 PM • 8 Comments
I haven't written about science and sports in a while, but here's a big piece of news that just caught my eye. It's about risk analysis. Like Pennsylvania, the state of Colorado does not have a helmet law. When I...
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Posted on June 12, 2006 6:32 PM • 10 Comments
Ah, the sweet, dulcet tones of Vin Scully.* Thank god baseball is back. Once UCLA destroys Florida tonight I can forget about all other sports until the end of the World Series. And I have to say, the best thing...
Posted on April 3, 2006 4:56 PM • 5 Comments
I have blogged a couple of times (link) on Carl Wieman leaving the U of Colorado, and the last post generated some interest in the comments. So today I thought I'd pass along an interesting op-ed published in the Colorado...
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Posted on March 29, 2006 12:34 PM • 7 Comments
After UConn went down in an entirely predictable loss to George Mason (ok, fine, while I had them losing in the E8, it was to UNC, not GM), I was in fine position to win the Sb pool and retain...
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Posted on March 27, 2006 2:53 PM • 2 Comments
Now that I'm reading Surowiecki's The Wisdom of Crowds, I've been thinking that his ideas should be applicable to March Madness. I'm only a little bit into the book, but the basic idea laid out in the preface/intro/chapter 1 is...
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Posted on March 21, 2006 4:27 PM • 9 Comments
Well not directly. I'm 99.9% sure he doesn't know who I am, much less has ever read this blog. Carl Wieman is a hyper-popular physics professor at the Univ. of Colorado (my current employer) who won the Nobel Prize in...
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Posted on March 21, 2006 3:48 PM • 8 Comments
Yes kids, it's true: I'm (temporarily) crushing the field in the Sb pool. Bow to your sensei! My run has been sweet, but it ends now, I'm afraid. While I have 14 of the 16 teams left, those two I'm...
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Posted on March 21, 2006 12:19 AM • 1 Comments
Kevin Vranes has a phud in Physical Ocean- ography and Cli- matology. He now studies sci- ence policy and politics at the CSTPR. (More in the about.)
