Brenkus, John

The author considers statistics, physics, and physiology to determine the potential for human performance, examining how high someone can dunk a basketball, how much weight a person can bench press, the speed at which a human can run, and related questions.

The host, creator, and executive producer of ESPN's "Sports Science" uses statistics, physics, and physiology to examine the limits of what is possible for a variety of sports, answering questions about the fastest runs and heaviest bench-presses.