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Which Leagues Have The Highest Average Player Salaries?This week, Sporting Intelligence and ESPN the Magazine released the Global Sports Salary Survey 2014, a worldwide look at which leagues pay the most on a per-athlete basis....

Rain, Trains, And Dead Kids: What To Put In Your Movie If You Want To Win An OscarWelcome to Dataspin, a weekly data visualization of whatever the fuck....

Super Bowl Subplot #8: Hurricane KatrinaThe media has kept it surprisingly low-key this week, but come Sunday there will be no avoiding the big dark shadow that looms over New Orleans and the rag tag group of football misfits holding that city together: Katrina....

Super Bowl Subplot #7: Shhh! Commercials!

The only thing people love more than Super Bowl commercials is complaining about people who only care about the commercials. Or is it complaining about those complainers? I feel like we've had this conversation before....

Super Bowl Subplot #6: The Aints Go Marching In

You know how fans of bad teams come to games with paper bags over their heads, because they're ashamed to admit they root for a terrible franchise? New Orleans invented that, because they root for the most terrible franchise ever....

Super Bowl Subplot #5: Haiti's Pierre Garçon

A dilemma has struck the publishing world this week. How do you make that little tail thingy on the C in Pierre Garçon's name? More importantly, if we can't figure it out does that make us worse than Paul Shirley?...

Super Bowl Subplot #4: Dwight Freeney's Ankle

Is it sprained or is it broken? Torn or rent asunder? Will he or won't he? Will it matter if he won't? Wait ... Someone is planning to play defense in this game? FREEEEENEEEEEEEEEEEEY!...

Super Bowl Subplot #3: A Pro Bowl Like No Other

There are several key storylines that all media outlets are required to discuss in the days leading up to the Super Bowl. We will do our part by beating them into the ground as far as we can....