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"Champion du monde des super-lourds en octobre dernier, Tony Yoka se rend régulièrement à Cuba pour se plonger dans le monde de la boxe cubaine. Le Français est en voyage sur l'île pour la cinquième fois. Là-bas, la boxe est un mode de vie et ils sont 100 000 Cubains de moins de 20 ans à monter sur les rings. Dans le sillage de Tony Yoka, l'équipe de France s'est mesuré à l'entraînement local pendant une semaine. "

"The site functions as both community space and courts for multiple sport and recreation activities. A dynamic and engaging super graphic defines the play areas and creates an iconic and playful destination for the growing community."

"There is less simulation inside the danger zone because players who have a real chance of scoring a goal are much less likely to drop to the ground and give up on the play. It's wide in the box where the incentives get out of whack and diving makes more sense. If you have less than a five percent chance of scoring a goal, why not roll the dice on fooling the referee into blowing a penalty?"

"I'd say the vast majority of these metrics are still in the experimental stages, and there are people from many different disciplines working on them. The problem is that few teams have staff in place who can judge whether a new metric is truly rigorous and consistent or just some snake oil that happens to fit the data for one or two seasons. I think teams should always ask about the theory behind a model and whether the model needs to be re-calibrated every season. Black boxes don't tend to work for very long."

"In that role, Moore is tasked with assigning more than 40 numerical grades to each of the NFL's roughly 2,600 players,2 evaluating them in categories ranging from passing accuracy to tackling ability. Moore's process has largely been a black box, and yet it shapes how more than 5 million gamers simulate pro football - particularly because there's no official alternative to his numbers. A decade after signing a controversial exclusivity deal with the league and the players union, Madden3 is still the only licensed NFL game in town."

"We have found that players like communicating via their digital devices. So with the help of our technology partner, we came up with an app that allows us to send short clips of analysis to individual players or groups of players from different parts of the team. Every player gets a couple of examples of him doing things well and badly straight after the game. They can look at it on their own time and also check their performance data. That's much more useful than showing a 90-minute video tape, as they used to in my time. The players appreciate that sort of feedback. We also have a lot of qualitative data for the opposition available. Jérôme Boateng asked to look at the way Cristiano Ronaldo moves in the box, to use another example. And before the game against France, we saw that the French were very concentrated in the middle but left spaces on the flanks because their full-backs didn't push up properly. So we targeted those areas."

"From a macro perspective, these types of shots are also a useful means to force your opposition to defend outside of their own box. Using them to keep your offensive approach interchangeable and even as a decoy for other attacking moves is extremely important for a dominant side that spends most of the time in their attacking phase and needs to find diverse routes towards goal. From a more defensive standpoint, we also see a lot of clearance-type long shots which initially appear as almost mindless strikes usually after a set-piece. However, their primary purpose is to prevent a possible counter-attack while your side is in a disadvantageous position and not necessarily to score. The compilation of Ander Herrera shots below is legitimately very funny but also includes a ton of these situations, since Herrera was tasked with this role for a long portion of his United career."

"You see these goals everywhere in Liverpool, I'd pass them all the time. There was no escaping the emerging pattern with the locations of the goals, places where economic truths are laid bare. I thought about how increasingly disenfranchised the kids playing in these goals are from society. What are their goals in life? Their urban goals. The painted goalmouth, such a simple, yet iconic symbol of inner city life framed this perfectly."

"L'appareil est équipé de lumières LED, qui s'allumeront en vert si le choc est faible, en bleu s'il est moyen, et en rouge s'il est violent. Un voyant rouge indiquera que le sportif a 50% de chances de souffrir d'une commotion cérébrale. Anthony Gonzales, l'un des créateurs du produit, explique que « le FITGuard permettra de suivre le protocole habituel en cas de commotion tout en ayant des données quantitatives pour étayer les conclusions ». L'appareil aura en effet enregistré au préalable des données concernant celui ou celle qui le porte (poids, âge, taille et sexe), ce qui permettra d'analyser précisément la gravité de la blessure.  Le FITGuard peut également être connecté à l'application mobile, qui vous permettra - à vous ou à vos parents, coach ou amis - de garder toutes les informations relatives à un choc que vous auriez encaissé.  Les sportifs pourront dorénavant savoir s'ils peuvent continuer à jouer sans risques ou s'ils doivent être pris en charge, et ce dispositif pourrait même sauver des vies. L'appareil devrait être en vente dès mars 2016, mais vous pouvez dès maintenant le précommander sur le site."