The sports world produces an astonishing amount of data in recording the nearly infinite minutia of athletic events. A new course called "Information in Sports" looks at athletics as a "perfect setting for probing information challenges, from research to competitive intelligence," according to one of its instructors, Mike Eisenberg, Dean at the University of Washington Information School (co-taught with Joe Janes!). I bet they don't get into the profound statistical realm of bowling though, which would be a shame.