SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
South America: Live computer data is driving football forward: A real factor in Uruguay's recent success on the international playing fields, software not from Silicon Valley but a few students from ORT University in Montevideo that provides real-time analysis that gives coaches data for their half-time team talks.
posted by billsaysthis at 12:27 PM on March 24, 2012
Standing Up to the N.C.A.A.: "I hope that happens; the appalling tactics of N.C.A.A. investigators have long remained hidden away, in secret files the general public never gets to see. They deserve a public airing. But that's not the real significance of the Cohane case. The real significance is that if Cohane wins, the law itself might finally force the N.C.A.A. to change its ways. Because, at long last, it would be labeled the state actor it has always been."
posted by billsaysthis at 12:24 PM on March 24, 2012