The adage that defense wins championships is one of the oldest chestnuts in sports. This extract of L Jon Wertheim and Sam Sommers’ fresh book This is Your Brain on Sports considers whether it holds up to closer inspection
In their Freakonomics-for-sports book,“This is Your Brain on Sports,” Jon Wertheim and Sam Sommers uncover the hidden influences in sports and use reams of data to investigate questions that tug at every fan. Why are quarterbacks so satisfactory-looking (or are they)? Why effect we love the underdog? What’s the appeal of the stupid T-shirt cannon?
In the following adapted extract, and the authors – one a sports journalist,the other a psychology professor – consider whether defense truly wins championships.
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Source: theguardian.com