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	Golf Math Encounters Madison Avenue Dimpled Golf Balls, Honeycombs, and More Improving Your Golf Game Golf Clubs and Driving Distance (Ivars Peterson's MathTrek) Math at the Masters
	Baseball The Physics of Baseball Learning from Baseball NPR Piece on Math in Baseball Sean Forman's website Star-Ledger article on the New York Mets’ use of statistics
	Soccer Bending It Like Bernoulli Bending It Like Bernoulli Bending a Soccer Ball with CFD Flow Modeling Solutions for the Sports Industry
	Football Bibliography on College Football Ranking Systems New York Times: Keeping Score: Some N.F.L. Injuries May Hurt More Than Others
	Basketball Math meets March Madness at Davidson College 2010 Breaking Down Brackets Mathematics meets March Madness at Davidson 2009
	Miscellaneous US House of Representatives resolution expressing support for Mathematics Awareness Month Mathematics and Sports---Some of the math involved in scheduling games and tournaments Teaching Statistical Thinking through Sports Math Forum Sports Links Tennessee Sports Math Project NBC Learn, in partnership with the National Science Foundation, unravels the physics, biology, chemistry, materials science and math behind the Olympic Winter Games. Being a Better Sport Bending It Like Bernoulli Sailing Faster Steering Towards Efficiency
	Recommended Books Wayne L. Winston, Mathletics: How Gamblers, Managers, and Sports Enthusiasts use Mathematics in Baseball, Basketball, and Football. Princeton University Press, 2009. Rob Eastaway and John Haigh, Beating the Odds: The Hidden Mathematics of Sport, Robson Books, 2007

Mathematics Awareness Month is sponsored each year by the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics to recognize the importance of mathematics through written materials and an accompanying poster that highlight mathematical developments and applications in a particular area.
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