Boston, 'Gound Zero' For Sports Analytics

Most of us learned in high school that jocks and nerds don't mix. But that calculus appears to be changing.

Witness MIT's fifth annual Sports Analytics Conference -- a gathering of geeky brainiacs who love to crunch numbers — which kicks off at the Boston Convention Center later this week. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban calls it a "must attend" for anyone interested in how to apply statistics to professional sports.

And these days, that's a lot of people.

The Boston Globe's Shira Springer joins us to talk about how Boston has become ground zero for sports analytics.

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