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The Procrastinator’s Guide To iOS 9iOS 9 came out this week, and you might want to put it on your phone, or figure out what the hell you get by installing this thing. This is a guide for those who care, but only barely....

Four Things You Can Learn About The NBA By Skimming Sloan Sports Analytics Conference Research PapersThe Sloan Sports Analytics Conference is under way in Boston and, though we sent no intrepid reporters to Dorkapalooza this year, the conference happily made its research paper finalists publicly available on its website. Let's blearily page through and see if we can't learn a few things. (We're foc...

Stat Nerd Better At Predicting Elections Than Predicting The NL EastIf you're a seamhead, you know Nate Silver as the Baseball Prospectus geek who has probably forgotten more about algorithms than you and I will ever know. He invented the PECOTA projection system, which predicted Tampa Bay's first 90-win season way back in February when the Devil Rays were still the...

Your Feeble Skills Are No Match For This Man

On Sunday in New York, Tyler Hinman successfully completed the puzzle shown above to capture his fourth straight American Crossword Puzzle Tournament championship, which makes him the Tiger Woods of crossword puzzles, according to one writer. But more importantly, what's a 'wisesupto?' Is that thre...

Anaheim Will Steal Your Lunch Money

Come to think of it, the NHL is kind of like a high school, and not just because everybody's ready to fall asleep by third period and the whole thing ends with a whimper in late June. That Tampa Bay is "the prom queen who got pregnant and now she's not the same as she used to be," and Nashville is"t...