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Team USA wins gold in women's hockey!!

Sigh.

What a perfect time to get a FOIA back on the economic impact study consulting business. Which I did like an hour ago!

To get those made-up numbers costs about $50,000!

Just got an invoice for Arizona State. I might have Houston. Crickets for the rest.

Iowa State University alumni donate $5M for endowed athletics director position • Iowa Capital Dispatch Iowa State University has received a $5 million gift to establish the Jamie and Ellen Pollard Endowed Director of Athletics.

Iowa State University’s athletics department’s leadership position will be permanently supported by a $5 million gift from alumni, the university announced Thursday, Brooklyn Draisey reports via Report for America.

Truly a great honor!

Bill shielding SC college NIL agreements from public records law advances in the Senate • SC Daily Gazette Public SC colleges could continue keeping what they pay student athletes secret under legislation advancing quickly in response to a lawsuit.

Bill shielding SC college NIL agreements from public records law advances in the Senate scdailygazette.com/2026/02/11/b... by @jmholdman.bsky.social

A Small University Bet Big on Enrolling Athletes. Now It Will Close. As Lourdes University, a private institution in Ohio, expanded sports teams, it did bring new students to campus. But overall enrollment continued to decline.

Lourdes College in Ohio bet that adding more athletic teams would save them from closing.

Now, its closing because athletics costs money.

@erickelderman.bsky.social has been covering this story for over a year.

www.chronicle.com/article/a-sm...

I have students submit an excel file and they can only see it as a pdf. Fortunately I can still see it as an excel file.

Canvas has been doing this for a while now. Sigh.

Congrats Jadrian!

Darth Yecats!

Matthew 24:36
"However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows".

Arraagghh! BEA has discontinued MSA population and PCI data!

Stop Formatting Before the Desk Reject: A Proposal for Staged Submissions Many flagship journals reject most manuscripts at the desk-review stage, with rates of 40–80% being common

Stop Formatting Before the Desk Reject

Proposal from @bnbakker.bsky.social and @jakobkas.bsky.social for a staged submission process when submitting manuscripts to academic journals.

#AcademicSky #PhDSky #AcWri

Imagine how much harder physics would be if electrons had feelings.

Interesting metaphor, bc we know the Titanic didn't turn around. It sank. It sank because of ICE

Mine was Nebraska. Replied in less than 5 minutes too!

Job Posting: Rice University - Professor in the Practice of Sport Analytics Rice University is hiring.

InstaGraphs: Job Posting: Rice University – Professor in the Practice of Sport Analytics blogs.fangraphs.com/instagraphs/...

The updated Lahman Baseball Database, with MLB and Negro League stats from 1871 through 2025, is now available for download on the SABR website at sabr.org/lahman-datab.... The Lahman DB allows baseball researchers to perform complex queries across the entire history of the game.

Later this month we will see last years home game football playoff revenue and expenses in the MFRS reports.

Is data replication and code on deck at JSE?

Sirianni on possibly benching Hurts: 'Ridiculous' Eagles coach Nick Sirianni said quarterback Jalen Hurts is "absolutely" his starter for Sunday's game against the Raiders and called it "ridiculous" when asked about the possibility of making a change...

Current Super Bowl MVP has one bad game and someone asks have he should be benched.

We should hear who asked this question.

Hurts is obviously a top quarterback in the league. All QBs have up and down games and even up and down seasons.

www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

Same Cart, Different Price: Instacart’s Price Experiments Cost Families at Checkout - Groundwork Collaborative

NEW: Our experts, along with @consumerreports.org and @moreperfectunion.bsky.social looked into how Instacart was deciding prices on grocery items across the country.

What we found will shock you.

They could just release the code and data; just saying.

With Primary Field Still in Flux, James Talarico Pitches His Big Tent Revival "I'm not interested in tearing down my fellow Democrats, because we are all on the same team ... but I think that I've got a compelling case to make."

Out today: "I would like to see the U.S. Senate prioritize comprehensive political reform: Ban super PACs and billionaire secret donations, ban lawmakers from insider trading—from turning around and becoming lobbyists right after they finish their public service."

An MIT Student Awed Top Economists With His AI Study—Then It All Fell Apart Aidan Toner-Rodgers shot to academic fame in a field hungry for new insights and revelatory research. But a computer scientist thought something seemed off.

Research and ethics in economics.
www.wsj.com/economy/aida...

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Photo credits (clockwise from top-left): Cool Papa Bell, Satchel Paige, Oscar Charleston, Turkey Stearnes, Josh Gibson, Sol White from the SABR-Rucker Archive.

Big news from SABR: For the first time ever, complete Negro Leagues player and team statistics are now available for download in the Lahman Baseball Database. sabr.org/latest/negro... @seanlahman.bsky.social