October 5, 2001
Pigskin Physics
News Flash: After eight years and thousands of dollars of experimentation, a professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo has confirmed what football players have always known: Passes thrown by right-handed quarterbacks hook to the right.
Who cares? Well, it's not exactly clear, but William J. Rae, a professor of aerospace engineering, insists it's a useful discovery, particularly for classroom teaching. "Given that football is our national religion," he says, "it's
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