Changing the game

Willie Rockward applied to college with pro football dreams, but a physics scholarship set him on a different path. "Keep your eye on the ball," was the stock advice Willie Rockward heard from football coaches as a teenager at in the early 1980s in Houma, Louisiana, just south of New Orleans. But Rockward, who had a talent for both sports and physics, would come to know better. "You just need to see the first part of the projectile," he says. "Once you know the trajectory of the ball, it's not g...