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The following is excerpted from the team chapters of the always-excellent Football Outsiders almanac. Buy the PDF for $12 or order the book for $21.95. More »
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My beach books aren't novels about Smith women discovering their sexuality, or biographies about forgotten historical figures, or leadership You-Can-Make-Millions-Out-Of-Your-Home-And-Here's-How. I read the Prospectus books. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5345991&view=rss&microfeed=true Football Outsiders' Pro Football Prospectus 2007 arrived at our apartment today. So don't bother us for the next few days. [Football Outsiders] More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=287371&view=rss&microfeed=true We mentioned yesterday that the ESPN Fantasy Hall of Fame was kind of cool, but it's worth noting that Football Outsiders had this idea a full two years ago. [Football Outsiders] More »
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A lot of what we've pointed out to you this morning has implied that the only people frustrated by the repeatedly terrible calls in last night's Super Bowl were angry Seahawks fans. We want to make clear that's hardly the case. More »
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Some Web business news this morning: The crazy kids at Football Outsiders have signed a deal with Fox Sports to provide NFL content for their site. Editor-in-chief Aaron Schatz — who previously had been doing work for ESPN Page 2 — says Fox Sports will run original FO content Monday-Wednesday. Fox, as it tends to do, will be re-running stories that ran on FO on their site as well. The New York Sun newspaper will continue to run Outsiders content as well. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=127387&view=rss&microfeed=true Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... More »
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Every successful enterprise needs a villain, and as Football Outsiders becomes more and more popular — their book just arrived at Deadspin World Headquarters and is being devoured with much haste, even as we type — their glee at picking apart ESPN "Cold Pizza" wax automaton Skip Bayless becomes more and more entertaining. This week's rant is about Bayless' typically thunderously vapid proclamation that the Patriots won't win the Super Bowl, and as much fun as the Outsiders have with Bayless, the educated message boards posters are having even more. More »
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We were impressed to see the folks from on ESPN2's Cold Pizza this morning, as much as we can be impressed to see anyone on Cold Pizza. We still don't think Football Outsiders is ever going to quite hit the levels of Baseball Prospectus, if just because people who watch baseball are just bigger computer nerds than those who watch football. But they're getting there: We mean, they shared a stage with Skip Bayless! They're huge! More »
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