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PHYSICIST Sir Isaac Newton is usually seen as the enemy of athletes. So much of sports, after all, involves battling gravity. But basketball coach Holger Geschwindner, 62, has found a way to turn the laws of physics to his advantage. A former captain of the German national team and a physicist, he has developed a series of formulas that may reveal the optimum arc for jump shots, using a combination of player height, arm length and release point. "Take differential and integral calculus. Make some derivations and create a curve," he recently said. "Everybody...
Geschwindner, an unofficial shooting coach for the Dallas Mavericks, Nowitzki's team, relies on more than physics. He runs a basketball academy in Würzburg that he calls "the Institute of Applied Nonsense," and its name captures its unconventional approach. Players split ball-handling drills with tutorials in opera, literature, fencing, ballet and jazz...
...receive production from some of its returning players other than Vance.Among the cast of would-be sluggers, Stack-Babich appears the most likely to take the lead role.Once a highly touted prospect for Wake Forest, Stack-Babich redshirted his freshman year. with the Demon Deacons. After the coach who recruited him retired and new skipper Rick Rembielak appeared intent on starting fresh with his own hand-picked players, Stack-Babich felt the need for a change. He transferred to Harvard, where he had originally been recuited, but struggled in his first season, hitting at only a .237 clip...
...would sometimes find himself in trouble or in the dugout for the eighth and ninth.The senior recalls a game at Brown last April: the Crimson and the Bears were tied at four after seven innings, but the bullpen gave up eight runs in the eighth after coach Joe Walsh pulled a tired Haviland. Harvard dropped the 12-4 decision and found itself on the outside looking in come May, when Brown celebrated the Ivy League title. “We’re a young staff this year, and we don’t have a lot of guys that...
Against No. 16 Wichita State last Sunday, head coach Joe Walsh put the fate of the third game of the series in the hands of sophomore Jonathan Strangio, an untested right-hander who had never thrown a single pitch in a Crimson uniform.Facing a potent lineup, Strangio lasted four innings and gave up six earned runs. Though he struggled in the outing, Strangio has impressed his coach this preseason. “He’s come on like gangbusters,” Walsh says. “He’s 87, 88 with the fastball, throwing...