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Pepperdine Athletics: Waves Stack up To Larger SoCal Schools

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Infographics by Ali Levens Pepperdine Athletics stacks up admirably compared to conference schools and the most athletically talented in Southern California. To better understand the data taken from Pepperdine and various in-state schools, it's important to break it down by category. The first category is athletic participation. This details number of teams and the number … [Read more...] about Pepperdine Athletics: Waves Stack up To Larger SoCal Schools

College Athletics Win and Lose Big

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The Pepperdine University athletic department is composed of a few hundred student-athletes who compete in various sports, all with different financial means and expenses. The maintenance of Pepperdine Athletics costs a few million dollars per year, and each team has different financial resources. It is one of the largest costs Pepperdine undertakes per year. Pepperdine … [Read more...] about College Athletics Win and Lose Big

What’s in a Stat?: Quite a Lot, Actually

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Sports, and the athletes who play them, are associated with physical achievement — pushing their bodies to be faster, stronger and more skilled. But while tangible, raw physical talent will always be a big part of athletics, something else is now an equal part of an evolving sports world — numbers. There are obvious ways in which numbers affect sports. A team wins by scoring … [Read more...] about What’s in a Stat?: Quite a Lot, Actually