As illustrated by the High School Musical song “Get’cha Head in the Game,” squeaky sneakers are a common, if not expected, soundtrack to basketball games. Flexible soles sliding against hard floors ...

Many basketball players like to spin the ball on their fingers. It is some sort of juggling move that can be learned in a few days (see figure 1). To make the ball spin in balance on your fingers it ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – A physics theory that’s proven useful to predict the crowd behavior of molecules and fruit flies also seems to work on another group – NBA players. A model based on density functional ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – A Cornell University research team has employed a variation of a theory first used to predict the collective actions of electrons in quantum mechanical systems to evaluate basketball ...