In an interview with Steven Perlberg of The Wall Street Journal, National Football League chief marketing officer Mark Waller shared how the league hopes to reach young football fans. One strategy ...

John Urschel has spent his life pursuing passions in two vastly different worlds: mathematics and football. As much student as he was athlete in college, Urschel was already making headlines for his ...

Pro football player and MIT doctoral student John Urschel may represent an unusual combination of abilities and interests, but he told an audience of math students and faculty at the University of ...

SAN JOSE, CALIF. - Like many high schoolers, John Hagen's algebra students worry about passing. But they also worry about rushing. And receiving. And scoring. They've become miniature NFL coaches, ...

As a fourteen year player in an extremely competitive fantasy football league, I feel like I know a little something about the addiction...ahem, game. As a two-time champion of this extremely ...

Cross-posted from the Schooled in Sports blog. For years, football fans have eagerly awaited the release of the latest in the “Madden” video game series. This December, in conjunction with Discovery ...

Walter Isaacson sits down with John Urschel, a rising star who walked away from a lucrative football career in the NFL to pursue a doctorate in mathematics at MIT. Read Transcript EXPAND WALTER ...

STEVENS POINT – As a high school freshman at Pittsville High School, Joe Tritz was doing OK in geometry class, but he wasn’t taking it seriously. When his teacher gave his class tests used for local ...

One recent afternoon in Cambridge, Mass., John Urschel and I strolled along the Charles River on the way to his office at MIT, where he’s pursuing a Ph.D. in mathematics. We were passing some of the ...