Best Winter Games ever?Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 3:55PMJames Pearce on why Vancouver was so special
Idaho, Oregon not among ‘Race to the Top’ finalistsFriday, March 5, 2010 @ 12:37PMBOISE — Idaho, Oregon and 23 others states didn’t make the cut during the first round of the U.S. Department of Education’s ‘‘Race to the Top’’ competition, which will award $4.35 billion in grants for school reform.
Can a formula predict the outcome of a soccer match?Friday, March 5, 2010 @ 6:09AM(PhysOrg.com) -- Soccer, like most sports, is a game full of surprises and lucky or unlucky breaks. After all, if it was easy to predict the winner of a soccer match, there wouldn`t be much reason to watch it. But a team of scientists says that soccer is actually a simple match in statistical terms. To demonstrate, they have derived a function that can predict the expected average outcome of a ...
Short stature can’t stop Yale guard Yoyo Greenfield on the courtFriday, March 5, 2010 @ 4:04AMShe may be small in stature, but Yoyo Greenfield was a big part of the Yale women’s basketball team’s 81-74 victory over Columbia this season. The 5-foot-5 guard scored a career-high 20 points in that matchup, 12 of which came from 3-pointers. Overall, she shot 8-of-15 from the field.
Indians endure tough seasonThursday, March 4, 2010 @ 10:21AMIs there a difference between growing pains and losing pains? If you’re a coach or a player, there really isn’t much of a difference. Losing hurts, even if your turnover from the previous year has left the proverbial varsity cupboard bare as Mrs. Hubbard’s kitchen.