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Former Miami (Ohio) coach Charlie Coles had everything: The Xs and Os, the brains, the personality. In a perfect world, Coles would have been a millionaire with six-figure speaking fees, famous friends and a big shoe contract. Instead he had a clo...

Bradford Doolittle sees why Blazers point guard Damian Lillard outclassed the field in the Rookie of the Year chase

Story | Conversation | May 01, 2013

Dean Oliver (pioneer of NBA advanced stats, author of the seminal book "Basketball on Paper," former member of the Nuggets brain trust and current Director of Production Analytics for ESPN Stats & Information) once had a website where he wrote ab...

Issac Baldizon/NBAE/Getty ImagesWhat should Kyrie Irving do next? The next generation of hoops technology could help him with that.Kyrie Irving grabs a deflection at the high post, spins like a top toward the opposing basket and takes off. As he ...

This past week Grantland visited the annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, and boy are our brains tired. After two days of presentations and panel discussions, we've got a lot to share. So, without further ado, here are a bunch of podcasts an...

Jim Delany has led the Big Ten since 1989 and upped the conference's women's sports participation numbers. Val Ackerman picks his brain in her latest edition of Man Up.

Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty ImagesChris Kaman has been unable to practice since suffering a concussion in January.Chris Kaman isn't the first person in the NBA to sound off on the league's concussion policy this season; early in the season New Orlean...

Royce White has a lot of radical thoughts about his own mental illness. But that's just the beginning — he's worried about your brain, too.

Neil Paine tries to determine whether Dallas Mavericks small forward Shawn Marion is worthy of the Hall of Fame.

Story | Conversation | December 12, 2012

CLEVELAND -- Tom Thibodeau is constantly pointing out flaws in his dogged pursuit of perfection. He never wants his team to be comfortable because in Thibodeau's basketball-compulsive brain, comfort is a sign of weakness. It's a sign that his grou...

Over the last few years, there has been a heightened awareness about concussions, brain injuries and the long-term risks potentially faced by athletes as the result of playing contact sports (and even sports commonly designated as "non-contact.") It'...

The future of American soccer will be determined by one man. And, perhaps surprisingly, he is neither Jurgen Klinsmann, Clint Dempsey nor Ian Darke. Rich Luker, a 59-year-old baseball-loving social scientist based in North Carolina, is the brains ...

CHICAGO -- Gar Forman sat at the podium after the Bulls drafted Marquis Teague late in June and uttered a statement has already started to haunt him amongst fans. Forman, one half of Chicago's basketball brain-trust, stated the team would be making "...

Bobcats veteran forward Eduardo Najera doesn't look like a player who just had major surgery on his skull two weeks ago.

Boston Celtics swingman Mickael Pietrus, sidelined for 17 days after suffering a Grade 3 concussion last month in Philadelphia, will return to action Wednesday night against the Atlanta Hawks.

Charlotte forward Eduardo Najera didn't suffer any brain trauma after taking an inadvertent elbow to the head from Milwaukee's John Brockman during Friday night's 95-90 loss.