PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jessica Gelman sharpened her basketball skills in pickup games at YMCAs growing up in suburban Chicago, rocking her black sneakers just like Michael Jordan and the rest of the ...

On Friday at Boston’s Hynes Convention Center, I attended Day 1 of the 8 th Annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. My biggest takeaways: - Analytics can obviously be useful, but coaches and ...

Despite its rapid growth, star panelists, and location in a city that’s fertile grounds for innovation and evolution, the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference remains widely unnoticed in many pockets ...

FiveThirtyEight’s delegation made the pilgrimage to this year’s Sloan conference, a kind of mecca for anyone who’s obsessed with sports, data and retelling how they first felt when they read ...

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