Sports and Data Visualizations

The World Series champion Boston Red Sox begin a new season today. Baseball players and their fans are fanatical about statistics. The same ...

26 Videos About the Science of the Winter Olympics

The Winter Olympics presents a great opportunity to work some science lessons into your students' interest in a current event. The Natio...

Winter Olympics Lesson Plans from Pearson OLE

The 2014 Winter Olympics officially kick-off tomorrow with the opening ceremonies. Some qualifying events actually started today. If you...

The Science of Baseball

It's Little League baseball season here in my part of the world. As I drove by a field a couple of nights ago I was reminded of a nice ...

Resources for Teaching the Math & Science of Sports

The Super Bowl is coming up this weekend and many classrooms will have students buzzing with their predictions for Sunday's game. This p...

Score Feeder - Share School Sports News

If you have ever coached a school sports team, you have probably tried to call in results to a local newspaper's sports desk. I did that...

The Science of Hitting a Baseball or a Softball

Sport Science on ESPN.com has couple of videos that are relevant as school winds-down and kids turn their attention to Little League baseba...

Video - Tony Gwynn and the Dangers of Tobacco

The lead story on this morning's episode of ESPN's Outside the Lines was about Baseball Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn's struggle wit...

Kids Bowl Free Again This Summer

For the last couple of years bowling alleys across the US have given away hundreds of thousands of games of bowling to students. Kids Bowl F...

Seasonally Appropriate Sport Science Videos

Major League Baseball's spring training is in full swing and NCAA Basketball's March Madness is just a couple of weeks away. Theref...

The Science of Football (American Football)

This summer I shared some resources for teaching science and math through baseball and skateboarding . This evening I'd like to pass al...

The Science of Skateboarding, Bicycling, and More

Earlier this week I shared some resources from ESPN and Well Home that deal with the math and science of sports. Another resource students ...

A Streetview Look at Tour de France Terrain

The Wall Street Journal has built a neat series of maps depicting the elevation gains and losses during each stage of the Tour de France ....

Sport Science - The Physics of Home Runs

Last night Major League Baseball held its annual home run derby exhibition. The derby was won by "Big Papi" David Ortiz . During l...