In 2009, ESPN president John Skipper told Sport Science host John Brenkus that short-form content was coming. It was wildly prescient, more accurate than Skipper could have known. And yet, once ...

John Brenkus, who was known for his terrific work on Sport Science on ESPN and Fox Sports Net, died on May 1, 2025 at the age of 54. According to a post on social media from his family: "It is with ...

Television personality John Brenkus arrives for the 2018 ESPYS at Microsoft Theatre. / Kirby Lee-Imagn Images John Brenkus, the founder of the Emmy-winning show Sports Science, died Saturday at the ...

Alex Hutchinson is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist and Outside’s Sweat Science columnist, covering the latest research on endurance and outdoor sports. The real fun at scientific ...

John Brenkus, the charismatic TV host who found creative ways to get sports fans to think about science, has died, his production company, Brinx.TV, said Sunday in a statement. “John, co-founder of ...

“Sports Science” founder and host John Brenkus died Saturday, his family announced on social media Sunday night. “Sports Science” first debuted on Fox Sports Net in 2007, though it moved to ESPN a few ...

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In today’s sports, the difference between winning and losing, success and failure, is small. Football is said to be “a game of inches.” In baseball a player has “less than the blink of an eye” to hit ...

John Brenkus, known as the creator and host of Sport Science, talks about what he’s learned about decision-making and momentum from his time studying the world’s greatest athletes, martial artists and ...

Looks like the show Sport Science (on ESPN) might take the place of Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman as the target of my bad-science attacks. Note: it looks like ESPN has the short episode I will be attacking ...