January 21, 2013
"Along with being a haven for breaking news, celebrity updates, and bad jokes, Twitter may have another use: a handy weight-loss tool."

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(Source: Wired)

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January 4, 2013
We filmed a promo video for our AT&T digital group last month, and I ended up in a few frames. It looked a little like this:

We filmed a promo video for our AT&T digital group last month, and I ended up in a few frames. It looked a little like this:

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December 13, 2012
"A college pitcher with a knack for numbers and his statistics-loving coach have found a way to mine baseball statistics that could help big-league scouts and managers more accurately assess minor-league prospects and bring better hitters to The Show."

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November 2, 2012
The Decades That Invented the Future

Over at Wired, we’re taking a look at the decades that invented the future: the 12 most innovative people, places and things of the past 12 decades. I was honored to write the introduction to the series, along with the first few entries for the Sports category: the invention of the forward pass, golf hitting it big in the US, and for the Roaring Twenties, Babe Ruth. Here’s a sample of the intro:

Today’s leading-edge technology is headed straight for tomorrow’s junk pile, but that doesn’t make it any less awesome. Everyone loves the latest and greatest. Sometimes, though, something truly revolutionary cuts through the clutter and fundamentally changes the game. And with that in mind, Wired is looking back over 12 decades to highlight the 12 most innovative people, places and things of their day. From the first transatlantic radio transmissions to cellphones, from vacuum tubes to microprocessors, we’ll run down the most important advancements in technology, science, sports and more.

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October 31, 2012
Sometimes big ideas come from small, unexpected places. Products like Velcro and Teflon coating came about as results of happy accidents rather than direct research. Along those lines, a team studying the vibrations inside football helmets could contribute to a safer future in the sport. … Then with the helmets on side-by-side pendulums, they let them fly, smashing one into the other and measuring the vibrations of the helmet, “skull” and “brain” with accelerometers. 

Sometimes big ideas come from small, unexpected places. Products like Velcro and Teflon coating came about as results of happy accidents rather than direct research. Along those lines, a team studying the vibrations inside football helmets could contribute to a safer future in the sport. … Then with the helmets on side-by-side pendulums, they let them fly, smashing one into the other and measuring the vibrations of the helmet, “skull” and “brain” with accelerometers. 

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September 20, 2012
"The widely held and devoutly believed idea that a big play can change the momentum of a game is, in a word, bunk. So say a trio of MIT stats geeks with a decade of data to back them up."

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Post-Interception ‘Momentum’ Is a Myth, Researchers Say

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September 5, 2012
"Just around the corner from the post office and the florist in London’s Paralympic Village, a workshop hums with activity 16 hours a day as prosthetists, orthotists, and wheelchair technicians do everything necessary to keep athletes rolling, running and competing."

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Filed under: playbook wired photo by Giles Duley /Ottobock 
August 6, 2012
“I’m very strong, I’m very built but I’m not mean. I mean, I love to sew! I’m a big sewer and baker. I’ve made purses and pillows. When my husband and I were dating I made him a cross-stitch pillow with all of the universities he’s worked at. So yeah, I am so mean. And I make a really good apple pie.”

“I’m very strong, I’m very built but I’m not mean. I mean, I love to sew! I’m a big sewer and baker. I’ve made purses and pillows. When my husband and I were dating I made him a cross-stitch pillow with all of the universities he’s worked at. So yeah, I am so mean. And I make a really good apple pie.”

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August 6, 2012
"Fans describe track cycling as the best of a six-hour road race boiled down to a thrilling few minutes, or seconds, when it comes to the sprint events. The bikes have no brakes or gears and the riders will sail into the 42-degree banked corners of the Olympic Velodrome at speeds of 40 mph."

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Sarah Hammer on Track Cycling

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August 3, 2012
"People have called Holley Mangold “Big Girl” most of her life. She heard it growing up playing football against boys, it’s what everyone called her when she starred in an episode of MTV’s “True Life” and it’s how people think of her now that she’s an Olympic weightlifter in the superheavyweight division."

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An Olympic Weightlifter on Football, Breaking Windows and the Perfect Lift

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Filed under: wired playbook olympics Photo by Getty Images 
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