Health/Aging
JAGS: Medical director presence and time in U.S. nursing homes, 2017–2023.
'I'm Trapped. I'm locked down. And I feel like I'm in prison.': An Oral History of COVID-19 in Nursing Homes
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Mailman School of Public Health Master's Thesis: Fake News, Digital Inequality, and the Aging Population.
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Washington Post: Schools are trying to curb obesity. Why are their sports leagues promoting Wendy’s and Pepsi?
Slate/Deadspin: Why the NCAA Doesn’t Care About Concussions.
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Nursing Home Enforcement Data Visualization.
Washington Post: On the limitations of high school football concussion data, and why you shouldn’t believe the reported declines.
Washington Post: On retired NFL star William “The Refrigerator” Perry’s downward health spiral.
Slate/Deadspin: Shaken Up On the Play: The semantic loopholes that allow the NFL to survive its concussion crisis.
Washington Post: For high schools seeking new athletic fields, is the plastic grass greener on the other side?
Hoop76: Andre Iguodala was concussed in Game 2 (or has really bad memory).
Washington Post: High school rifle teams stay the course as gun debate rages on.
Washington Post: At-risk students get a second shot with alternative school basketball.
The Gazette: Schools struggle to raise money for basic needs.
Sports Analytics
Sports/Culture
ESPN: How analytics can resolve B-List issues like the age restricting and prevent future lockouts.
ESPN: Why an undefeated basketball team should trade all its average players and start losing.
Hoop76: Why Wages of Wins is wrong about tanking.
Hoop76: Bad teams staying bad doesn’t mean tanking doesn’t work. (Why causation ≠ correlation)
WHYY interview: 76ers season could have silver lining.
WHYY interview: 76ers game plan misses shot at high draft pick.
ESPN: What does an NBA team do when its games don't count? Experiment.
Washington Post: Why a Maryland high school football team took a knee on the state champion’s home field.
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ESPN: That time NBA legend John Lucas joined transgender tennis star Renee Richards to make the most fascinating mixed doubles team in tennis history (sorry about the formatting).
ThePostGame: Why this field in Khayelitsha, South Africa, is so special
Washington Post: What does it take to be an elite high school runner? I hit the track with two of the nation’s best to find out.
Slate podcast feature (55:00): How society learned to accept dunking doughnuts – and basketballs.
Washington Post: How Loudoun County evolved into a Virginia lacrosse hotbed
Washington Post: Terps legend. ‘Coach Walt.’ ‘Dad.’
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Washington Post: Jake Funk, the 2015 football All-Met Player of the Year, is tough. But don’t call him a bruiser.