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If Mark Twain thinks golf is "a good walk spoiled", then putting must be a brief pause to make you reconsider ever walking again. With about 50% of our score being determined on the green, we are constantly in search of the "secret" to getting the little white ball to disappear into the cup.Lucky for us, there is no shortage of really smart people also looking for the answer. The first 8 months of 2008 have been no exception, with a golf cart full of research papers on just the topic of putting.

Dan Peterson takes an interesting look at the role of the eyes and brain in baseball hitting performance.

BBC Oxford News relayed a story last night of a non-medically qualified nutritionist who advised a female client to drink too much water. The nutritionist has been sued and an out of court settlement has been reached worth £880, 000. The client suffered organ failure and as a result suffered brain damage.

For years, sport science and motor control research has added support to the fundamental assertions that "practice makes perfect" and "repetition is the mother of habit". However, many questions still exist as to exactly how we learn these skills. What changes happen in our brains when we teach ourselves a new task? What is the most effective and efficient way to master a skill? Do we have to be actually performing the skill to learn it, or could we just watch and learn?

How wonderful is the human brain, to come up with unusual and quirky ideas that make our lives more convenient. Every day, rather every hour something new is being thought about and being converted into reality in some or the other part of the world.

Pitching a 3" diameter baseball 46 feet (for Little League) or 60 feet, 6 inches over a target that is 8 inches wide requires an accuracy of 1/2 to 1 degree. Throwing it fast, with the pressure of a game situation makes this task one of the hardest in sports. So, how do we do it? And how can we learn to do it more consistently?

This is a really interesting post on the role of perception in baseball fielding, and an introduction to the Information Processing versus Ecological Perception debate.

Brian Lara opened up in an AMA on a host of things, including his playing days, cricket in Olympics and also on the modern day cricket. He stated that Shane Warne is the greatest leg-spinner of all time. One of the most fascinating answers is his choice of the best batsmen in today's world.