1. King of stats

    Neural engineer and basketball fan AndrĂ© Snellings, PhD ’07, always enjoyed fantasy sports, writing the ‘Hoops Lab’ blog and applying mathematical models to athletics. When ESPN recruited him to play for their analytics team, he jumped at the career longshot.

  2. Playing hurt

    Author John U. Bacon, BA ’86/MA ’94, delivers a candid memoir that illuminates how late ESPN sportscaster and athlete John Saunders confronted depression.