Freakonomics Radio | 24 November 2022 | 0h 54m | Listen Later 
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Interview with Michael Lewis about his book Moneyball on the twentieth anniversary of its publication. Discusses stories from the background of writing the book, and the role of luck in Lewis’s success.
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Ben Guest on Zen and the Art of Coaching Basketball
Thecuriousmanspodcast | 17 December 2021 | 1h 10m | Listen Later | iTunes | Spotify
Interview with Ben Guest about his memoir Zen and the Art of Coaching Basketball. Discusses his work teaching and coaching basketball in Namibia. Transcends the sport to offer insights on living in the moment, meditation, relationships and coaching.
Making of The Master – Roger Federer, by Chris Clarey
The Tennis Podcast | 24 August 2021 | 0h 59m | Listen Later | iTunes | Spotify
Interview with Chris Clarey about his book The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer. Discusses the life and tennis career of Roger Federer, the people who have been important influences, and the rivalries that have shaped him.
Christopher Phillips on Scouting and Scoring Baseball
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast | 29 January 2020 | 0h 44m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Christopher Phillips about his book Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know about Baseball. Argues, counter to Moneyball, that both scouts and scorers use quantified judgements to assess the value of baseball players.
Ben Cohen on the Hot Hand
EconTalk | 10 August 2020 | 1h 08m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Ben Cohen about his book The Hot Hand: The Mystery and Science of Streaks. At times in sports and elsewhere in life, a person seems to be “on fire,” playing at an unusually high level. Is this real or an illusion? Cohen takes the listener through the scientific literature on this question and spreads a very wide net to look at the phenomenon of being in the zone outside of sports. Topics include Shakespeare, investing, Stephen Curry, and asylum judges.
The Data Coach
Against the Rules with Michael Lewis | 2 June 2020 | 0h 42m | Listen Later | iTunes
From the latest series of Michael Lewis’ Against the Rules, which is about the role of coaches in society. All are excellent. This episode explores the quantitative, scientific, and data-driven new frontier of coaching. Shows how data and technology are applied to coaching baseball and conversational skills.
Andre Agassi, Tennis Legend, Author of Open
Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books | 10 April 2018 | 0h 34m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Andre Agassi speaking candidly about his tennis career, fatherhood, pushing through pain, writing to make sense of his life, changing education, addressing dyslexia, and finding true meaning through his philanthropic work. Draws from his book Open.
Jon Wertheim on Sports, Psychology and Economics
Capital Allocators | 17 June 2019 | 0h 42m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Jon Wertheim, sports journalist and author of ten books including Stokes of Genius about the Federer-Nadal rivalry, Scorecasting, and This Is Your Brain on Sports. Ranges across sports, investing and psychology delving into behaviour and decision making, tennis, the role of luck, cycles in basketball strategy, loss aversion, job preservation, omission bias, sports gambling, the business of sports, and lessons from interviewing.
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