L. Jon Wertheim

University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moscowitz and veteran Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim reveal the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football, and hockey games are played, won, and lost. Their book Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won overturns some of the most cherished truisms of sports—from home-field advantage, to the biased umpires exhibit, to the myth of the "hot hand" in sports.

Legendary pool hustler Kid Delicious started out as an overweight and unhappy teenager from New Jersey. Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim explores how that teenager became Kid Delicious as he traveled through America’s billiard halls beating up the competition. Wertheim’s new book is Running the Table.

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