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		<title>The Sports World Flocks to MIT: How the Games Are Smartening Up</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/03/01/the-sports-world-flocks-to-mit-how-the-games-are-smartening-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Gregory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sports keep getting smarter. The seventh annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference kicks off on Friday, and this yearly gathering of stats geeks, sports execs, and companies looking to make a buck in the burgeoning world of sports data continues to grow in prominence. (A few years ago, Grantland founder Bill Simmons astutely labeled the conference &#8220;dorkapalooza.&#8221;) Around 2,700 people signed up to attend this year&#8217;s conference, a 23% increase over last year: representatives from 80 teams in Major League Baseball, the NBA, NFL, NHL, Major League Soccer and the English Premier League will be on hand. In its infancy, the conference attracted 2 to 4 sponsors: there are now 13 sponsors, including Under Armour, SAP, ESPN, TicketMaster, and StubHub. Nate Silver is making an appearance; he&#8217;ll be treated like Bono at this thing. &#8220;The reality is that big data works in sports,&#8221; says Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey, a former MIT business student who founded the conference. (MORE: How Did Nate Silver do with his Oscar Predictions?) If you follow sports and have a Twitter account, be prepared for a barrage of missives about &#8220;spatio-temporal data&#8221; and other esoteric topics. The research papers presented at the conference are always worth a look. In a paper entitled &#8220;Going For Three: Predicting the Likelihood of Field Goal Success with Logistic Regression,&#8221; three PhD students from MIT&#8217;s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics write that, &#8220;through the development of a binomial logistic regression model, we found that situational (psychological) factors have no statistical effect on the outcome of [NFL] field goal attempts, despite what fans, coaches, and the media believe. On the other hand, environmental factors – temperature, precipitation, wind, field surface, and altitude – do have major impacts upon the difficulty of a field goal attempt.&#8221; Upside: maybe this research will convince coaches to stop trying to &#8220;ice&#8221; the kicker at the end of games by a timeout before the snap, since psychological tricks don&#8217;t have a statistically significant impact. Downside: does it bode well for America&#8217;s aeronautic and astronautic future<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2344834&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>David Beckham Signs for Paris Saint-Germain and Will Play for Free</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/01/31/david-beckham-signs-for-paris-saint-germain-and-will-play-for-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aging English soccer great David Beckham has become the newest international soccer star signed by the free-spending owners of French side Paris Saint-Germain. The 37-year-old midfielder was introduced to the media during a predictably packed press conference Thursday when the former England team captain and Manchester United hero began a five-month deal with PSG. His next move had been much anticipated since leaving MLS side LA Galaxy in December after five and a half years. True to Beckham&#8217;s rock star status, PSG began its loudly touted media show 38 minutes late. And Becks surprised reporters by revealing he won&#8217;t be receiving a salary from PSG; the club will instead donate an undisclosed amount representing his wages to a children&#8217;s charity. &#8220;I&#8217;m excited, it&#8217;s something we&#8217;ve been working on and talking about for quite a while,&#8221; he said. &#8221;It&#8217;s something the guys do [PSG management], but obviously it&#8217;s a very good figure. That&#8217;s one thing were very excited about. To be able to give a huge sum to a children&#8217;s charity in Paris is very special.&#8221; (PHOTOS: A Brief History of David Beckham) News of Beckham’s recruitment broke earlier in the day, but wasn’t much of a shock to soccer fans who’d been paying any attention. Since his Qatar Sports Investments group took a controlling stake of the club in 2011, PSG president Nasser al-Khelaïfi  has tried to add Beckham to a stable of stars he’s spent a reported $340 million assembling. The most recent attempt to lure Beckham to Paris fell through a year ago, when the Englishman decided to continue playing for the Galaxy. But after winning his second MSL Cup with LA in December, Beckham began looking for new challenges—and al-Khelaïfi was determined not to be denied. (MORE: Why Qatari Owners of Paris’ Soccer Team Hanker For Aging Englishman Beckham) &#8220;This is a big day for the club, because as you know we&#8217;ve long tried to get David, and now we finally did it,&#8221; al-Khelaïfi said. As for the player, he noted that &#8220;Every club I&#8217;ve played for I&#8217;ve<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2344196&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Profitable Albion: France&#8217;s Soccer Players Flock to England&#8217;s Premier League</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2013/01/31/profitable-albion-french-soccer-pros-flock-to-englands-premier-league/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though fans of Spanish and Italian soccer championships will beg to differ, it’s hardly hyperbole to describe England’s Premier League as the most exciting professional operation in the world of professional soccer. It’s also the most expensive—with top English clubs paying out an average 70% of revenue earned in ever-rising player salaries. That, it seems, is what it takes to prevent millionaire stars like Wayne Rooney (who reportedly hauls in wages of $40,000 per day) from accepting more lucrative offers elsewhere. But that kind of pay packet has also fueled the flow of foreign talent like Robin van Persie (Dutch), Luis Suarez (Uruguayan), and Fernando Torres (Spanish) to English sides. In fact, the Premier League’s $2.5 billion salary sweepstakes has turned England into the promised land—in footballing and financial terms—for so many foreign players (around 356 of a total 574 working for top tier sides) that some fans worry the national game is losing its distinct English flair. (MORE: Five Reasons the Magic of the FA Cup Is Alive and Kicking) Such concerns won’t be allayed now that English clubs which boast bottomless pockets and the biggest names in the game have also started binge buying in Europe’s hard discount shop: France’s professional Ligue 1. The reason? With Premier League clubs suffering collective losses of $596 million last year, front offices are looking to find new, promising blood at cheaper prices. And given its reputation as one of Europe’s most somnolent, under-performing leagues, France’s Ligue 1 represents a second-hand shop English clubs are mining in search of unearthing diamonds. The biggest Premier League enthusiasts of French talent has been Newcastle—a club that snatched up five players in January alone. Those acquisitions sent the total number sporting the jersey to 11&#8211; reportedly a record number of French players working for any English team at a given time. But Newcastle’s France fetish is only notable in being extreme, not unique. France’s current total of 33 Premier League players is the largest contingent of foreign hires—ahead of Ireland’s 29, Spain’s 27, and Scotland’s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2344155&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What The Kobe Bryant-Leo Messi Ad Says About The World</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2012/12/21/what-the-kobe-bryant-leo-messi-ad-says-about-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Saporito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It wouldn’t be odd that Los Angeles Lakes star Kobe Bryant and F.C. Barcelona’s goal scoring sensation Lionel Messi would share a commercial endorsement or two. But you would think it would more likely in a category such as athletic gear or soda. It’s not. Kobe’s a Nike and Sprite (Coca-Cola)  guy while Leo shills for adidas and Pepsi. Instead the two have a combined endorsement in the most unlikely of places, the front cabin of a Turkish Airlines jet. In a commercial now running in the U.S. the 6’ 6” Laker guard and the 5’ 6” Barca striker vie for the attention of a young autograph seeker by one-upping each other doing ball tricks in their seat and steadily raising the stakes to balloon animals until the boy drops them both for some ice cream presented by a friendly hostess. “The best fly with Europe&#8217;s best airline” is the tag line. What this has to do with airline service isn’t clear, but this one advertisement &#8212; which has been viewed over 70 million times on YouTube &#8212; can explain the global economy and its two most important sports, basketball and soccer, in a single minute. Start with Messi, the man known as La Pulga (The Flea),  who just set a new scoring record by knocking in 90 goals this year. The notion that an Argentine- born soccer player who earns a living in Spain’s La Liga would be recognizable enough to sell products in the U.S. market underscores the idea that the soccer culture is firmly planted in America. Messi, like David Beckham before him, is an international star who plays for a team whose reach extends well beyond Spain. You see Barca shirts turn up all over the U.S., because both Barca’s and Argentina’s games can be seen regularly, on Fox Soccer, ESPN or Gol TV. And as the last election pointed out to the GOP, the changing demographics and expanding, and young, Hispanic population have Leo written all over it. (MORE: Free Lesson With Kobe Bryant) It would also<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2343485&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As the NFL Returns to London, Can Stan Kroenke Have Success in Soccer and Football?</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2012/10/29/can-stan-kroenke-have-success-in-soccer-and-football/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glen Levy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an ideal world, American businessman Stan Kroenke should have enjoyed a fun-filled sporting week in the U.K. Two of his sporting interests were playing their home games in London: soccer side Arsenal, for which the 65-year old Kroenke is the majority shareholder, had two winnable games in the English Premier League (EPL) against Norwich City and Queens Park Rangers, either side of a Champions League match at home to the German team Schalke, from which they were also expected to emerge victorious. Instead, they slumped to a 1-0 defeat against a lowly Norwich, were shocked 0-2 at home to the Bundesliga outfit and were less than 10 minutes away from being held to a goalless draw at home to 10-man QPR before a late (albeit offside) winner saw off the EPL&#8217;s bottom club. What&#8217;s more, if he thought he&#8217;d be afforded some respite at Arsenal&#8217;s Annual General Meeting (AGM) last Thursday, he was in for a rude awakening as fans accused the board of &#8220;ruining the club.&#8221; Kroenke was even asked if he planned to take dividends out of the North London side (he said it was a decision for the board). Clearly under fire, the rarely-heard-from Kroenke &#8212; there&#8217;s a reason he&#8217;s known as &#8220;Silent Stan&#8221; &#8212; took to the Arsenal website to try and make his point: &#8220;I am ambitious for the Club and we all share the same goal,&#8221; he stated. &#8220;The reason I am involved in sport is to win. It&#8217;s what it&#8217;s all about. Everything else is a footnote. I can assure you no one is more ambitious than me. Arsenal is a tremendous club with a track record of consistent performance at the top level. That is very rare but we have managed it. I know that will continue as we move forwards. We have an exciting future and our goal is to win trophies.&#8221; (MORE: Highlights from Week 3 of the Champions League) And then there&#8217;s his perennially underachieving St. Louis Rams, who moved their home game against the New England Patriots to Wembley Stadium<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2342447&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Sports Logos Are So Important</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2012/10/18/why-sports-logos-are-so-important/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Newcomb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brooklyn is bold enough on its own; the marketing minds behind the rebooted Nets NBA franchise didn’t want loud colors and boisterous designs to send a message. Instead, with the design help of team minority owner and pop culture icon Jay-Z, the Brooklyn Nets &#8212; freshly relocated from New Jersey &#8212; created the the league’s only all black-and-white color scheme. Just because you see a san-serif font void of flashy colors, however, doesn’t mean the team didn’t dedicate itself to creating a culture-defining look to pay homage to Brooklyn fans. The logo includes ties to the team’s visual past with a shield, basketball and retention of the Nets nickname, and ties to Brooklyn’s personal identity by basing the color scheme and simplicity off the 1957 New York Subway system signage, the last year Brooklyn housed a professional franchise. “We wanted to have something that would have a long shelf life,” Fred Mangione, Brooklyn’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer, tells TIME. “We wanted it to be simplistic, but be something that would resonate through the times. The whole background came through going into the borough and going off the subway system and an urban feel look.” The result was a brand that screams “Brooklyn,” just as Mangione says the goal was from day one. “It was about Brooklyn being across the chest (of the jersey),” he says. “It was all about the black and white. All about Brooklyn. We didn’t want to overthink it.” In a crowded market of entertainment and sports, the right logo helps carve out a carefully crafted identity. By playing on a fan base’s emotions and pride—ties to a more romantic successful era or stylized local landmarks, for example—or offering a way to stand out with flashy colors, professional sports teams use their logos to play a key role in reaching fans, even if the strategy to get there differs from team to team. Some teams wouldn’t dream of touching a historic mark—a star on an NFL helmet, wings on an NHL sweater or interlocking<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2342155&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Manchester United: The Team is Better Than The Stock</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2012/09/19/manchester-united-the-team-is-better-than-the-stock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Saporito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This may be mixing football metaphors, but Manchester United was thrown for a loss in the fourth quarter. The American-controlled, English soccer team, which now trades on the New York Stock Exchange after going public earlier this year, reported a loss about of about $25 million on revenue of $121 million in its final quarter ending in June. Revenue was down 25%, reflecting United’s failure on the field. The team played fewer games as a result of being knocked out of the big money UEFA Champions League tournament, which was won by rival Chelsea, as well as getting dumped in England’s FA Cup, its top domestic tournament. Man U currently sits in second place in the Barclays Premiership. For the year, Man U. had revenues of $519 million, a decrease of 3.3%; the team showed a profit of $38 million, but that was mostly the result of a tax credit. Man U did much better selling sponsorship and souvenirs, including a $559 million agreement with Chevrolet that makes the car brand the team’s exclusive shirt sponsor beginning next season. (Buy a Chevy, they’ll throw in the Man U kit.) “We are one of the most popular and successful sports teams in the world, playing one of the most popular spectator sports on Earth,” notes Man U.’s corporate website. The response from American investors seems to be, Who Cares? They have treated Man U. as though it were Blackburn Rovers. Its shares have fallen more than 10% since the team’s $14 a share IPO in August, meaning that Man U has lost more than $240 million of value—that’s more than most teams in England are worth. Among the losers at this point is George Soros, an all-star investor who now owns a minority stake.. Some of Man U.’s fans aren’t happy either.  The Manchester United Supporters Trust, (MUST) an independent fan group, has been harshly critical of the team’s majority owner, the Glazer family  (also owners of the NFL Tampa Bay Buccaneers). The Glazers control all of the voting stock.  MUST<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2341752&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Most Hated Sports-Team Owners</title>
		<link>http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2012/07/19/top-10-most-hated-sports-team-owners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeremy Lin's exodus from New York has secured Knicks owner James Dolan in the annals of the least popular sports team owners. Here are a few other big, bad sportsmen.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2341046&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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