Cross-posted from the Schooled in Sports blog. For years, football fans have eagerly awaited the release of the latest in the “Madden” video game series. This December, in conjunction with Discovery ...

For years, football fans have eagerly awaited the release of the latest in the “Madden” video game series. This December, in conjunction with Discovery Education and the NFL Players Association, EA ...

In the previous three installments of this series, I made a prediction as to the final record of each team and the results of each conference championship game. My official process is to use the ...

Pro football player and MIT doctoral student John Urschel may represent an unusual combination of abilities and interests, but he told an audience of math students and faculty at the University of ...

With the College Football Playoff National Championship fast approaching, I’d like to give some predictions for the big game … But before I get to that, I want to tackle (pun intended) a topic very ...

“Every kid has a little bit of a mathematician in them,” says John Urschel in his book Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football. “All kids know the concept of more…. They can see that some things ...

OWINGS MILLS, Md. — John Urschel doesn’t want to be unique. Urschel, the 25-year-old Baltimore Ravens guard, is unquestionably different from your average offensive lineman, or more broadly, NFL ...

Why do football players make terrible pilots? Because they always break the plane before a touchdown! Obligatory math-football joke? Check. Now let’s get to business. For my first column, I’d like to ...

While mathematics is a fundamental skill crucial to daily life, U.S. parents today see math education as boring, outdated, and disconnected from the real world. (1) At the national level, short and ...