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"While active lifestyles have increasingly been the focus of many people to stay fit physically, deep healing can still not be reached. As cities keep growing and daily realities quickly shift, people turn to new ways to maintain their well-being. For centuries, designers had missed a vital link to sustainability and well-being, which is the human beings' inherent love for nature. We want to work with you to bring that missing link between architecture, humans, and nature in the design form of a fitness center merged with nature. Creative integration of the indoor and the outdoor is key for sustained everlasting body-mind fitness."

"for the stadium, zaha hadid architects has conceived a pioneering design made almost entirely from wood. the scheme sits low on the terrain, intended to complement the existing meadow landscape. the venue's roof is covered with a transparent membrane, which helps turf to grow naturally. importantly, the arena has been designed to allow for future expansion - constructed initially for 5,000 spectators, the stadium could potentially double in size depending on the club's success.  "

"How can we best put the gap between Curry and the best three-point shooters in history in context? Over the past 30 years, the number of 3-point field goals has trended steadily upward. If we project that trend into the future, 402 becomes a perfectly natural number of 3-point field goals for an N.B.A. player to make. "

"Pour certains, sport + ville = pollution, dangers de la route, piétons qui ne regardent pas devant eux, galère pour trouver un petit coin de nature… Sauf que la ville peut s'avérer être le lieu idéal pour pratiquer une activité sportive et même certaines qu'on n'imaginerait pas pouvoir faire en plein coeur de Paris."

"As covered by Rob Carroll here, bloggers and academics need to learn to refine their message and understand their audience. While it is understandably tempting to show off as many mathematical skills as possible, the information may well be rendered useless because of its opacity. When someone in a position to use this information, whether they are a club analyst, manager, director or CEO, looks at work of this nature, the key, proactive point has to be obvious."

"Il est difficile d'imaginer un monde sans jeux, et New-York est un gigantesque « playground » (terrain de jeu ndlr). L'idée m'est venue très simplement, et tout naturellement. C est un sujet à la fois très personnel et universel que de traiter ce sujet en photographie. Mon installation aux Etats-unis cette année répondait à un objectif : celui de documenter et de porter un regard sur New-York, la rue, le paysage urbain et le sport."

"Football et l'écologie ont jamais marché côte à côte. La construction de stades modernes est l'une des plus grandes preuves: outre millions de dépenses, les dirigeants ne se soucient pas de l'assaut sur la nature causés par les bâtiments. JMalucelli Football résolu simplicité en forme et sensibilisation à l'environnement dans la construction du stade Janguito Malucelli, appelé Ecoestádio, conçu pour provoquer l'impact environnemental moins possible. Il est respectueux de l'environnement: les gradins sont creusés dans la terre, le bois provient d'une zone de reboisement et de fer, traverses désactivé. La maison de "Jotinha" comme on l'appelle est adjacent à l'une des principales cartes de la ville, le parc BARIGUI. Mais les près de 50 millions de personnes qui visitent le dimanche ne réalisent pas qu'il ya un stade de football, parce que l'idée est de maintenir l'harmonie avec près de deux millions de mètres carrés d'espaces verts dans la région."

"If there's one topic where quantitative analysis can change the way football is played, it's 4th down decision-making. Many articles here have chronicled the conservative nature play-calling on 4th down in the modern NFL. In this post I'll explain, as clearly and simply as possible, why the evidence points to a more aggressive attack on 4th down."

"The Moneyball revolution coincided with a shift in the way professional sporting organizations handle and utilize data in terms of decision making processes. Due to the demand for better sports analytics and the improvement in sensor technology, there has been a plethora of ball and player tracking information generated within professional sports for analytical purposes. However, due to the continuous nature of the data and the lack of associated high-level labels to describe it - this rich set of information has had very limited use especially in the analysis of a team's tactics and strategy. In this paper, we give an overview of the types of analysis currently performed mostly with hand-labeled event data and highlight the problems associated with the influx of spatiotemporal data. By way of example, we present an approach which uses an entire season of ball tracking data from [a professional soccer] league (2010-2011 season) to reinforce the common held belief that teams should aim to "win home games and draw away ones". We do this by: i) forming a representation of team behavior by chunking the incoming spatiotemporal signal into a series of quantized bins, and ii) generate an expectation model of team behavior based on a code-book of past performances. We show that home advantage in soccer is partly due to the conservative strategy of the away team. We also show that our approach can flag anomalous team behavior which has many potential applications."