PODCAST: Ryan Braun, Alberto Contador and the State of Drug Testing in Sports
I joined fellow writers Ethan Calof and Jacob Rude for the first edition of a weekly podcast that you will be able to find every week here at Global Turnstile if you miss the live airing at Spreecast. This week we discussed Ryan Braun’s successful appeal of his positive test for synthetic testosterone; Alberto Contador’s retroactive two-year suspension that resulted... Read More
Stats and Sensibility: The Costs of Victory in College Sports
So I’ve been tinkering around with a lot of college statistics lately… you’d think the clock had turned back and I was a high-school senior again or something, the way I’ve been looking at everything from win percentages to academic standards to the revenue that major schools spend on their sports teams. Now the analysis that follows is by no means... Read More
NTSF: A Superconference Cautionary Tale
I’ve been rolling around in my head an article about the impending advent of superconferences in college sports. (Maybe that’s why this column is two days late in arriving…) In the wake of the SEC deciding not to expand at this time, coupled with the growth of the Big “Ten” and the Pac-12 (easily altered from the Pac-10) and the moves around the non-AQ... Read More
Seattle and the Solar Stadium
When the STAPLES Center put up an array of 1727 photovoltaic solar cells in 2008, the 364kWh display made perfect sense. In the heart of downtown Los Angeles, the rooftop array was ideally situated to take advantage of the California sunshine — nearly six peak hours of sunlight a day all just waiting to be harvested. Seattle took the initiative to power its football-and-soccer... Read More
NTSF: Initial Thoughts on the Green Sports Alliance Summit
I returned from Portland last night after three days spent at the inaugural Green Sports Alliance Summit, and the confluence of so many influential people and teams and businesses and the steps they’ve taken toward sustainable sport have my head swimming with a wealth of inspiring things to write about. I need to sort out everything and get my initial thoughts down before... Read More
