Former Baltimore Raven John Urschel discusses new book about football, math
(World News Science)

John Urschel would really rather not be doing this interview. It´s not personal; it´s not me (I´m fairly certain). It´s just that a media tour cuts against everything he is - an introvert, one of the millions of us in this country with anxiety, a mathematician who is desperate to get back to work to make the next discovery, to learn more about the way our universe works. But Urschel has to balance that impulse against the reality that he´s taken the time to write a book explaining all of that, and that it would be a waste of that effort not to try to get people to read it. That book, `Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football` explores his particular path navigating the very top of two...