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What You Need To Know To Bet On The Super Bowl (Late Edition)
Below is your final NFL betting line chart for the 2013-14 season, with updated figures for spread, bet trend, over/under, and money line figures for this Sunday's Super Bowl (here's the early post from last week). Of course there are many fun ways to bet on the Super Bowl; check out Jay Sanin's pos...
Lance Berkman is retiring at the age of 37. A .293/.406/.537 career hitter in the regular season, he posted an OPS of 1.084 in 50 World Series plate appearances with the Astros and Cardinals. His 1.65 World Series WPA is the third-highest of all time, behind only Charlie Keller and Lou Gehrig. [CBS ...
Which Industry Spends The Most On Super Bowl Commercials?
DVRs are the scourge of TV advertisers, which makes live sports—especially the NFL, and especially the Super Bowl—worth an enormous amount of money....
Deadspin Up All Night: Reset Button
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Deadspin Up All Night: Chan Chan
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181 Dog Breeds On One <em>Very</em> Good Poster
New from Pop Chart Lab, the Diagrams of Dogs poster classifies 181 dog breeds by types and various sub-types. All your old favorites are on there, plus at least a few you probably haven't heard of before. (Schipperkes! Holy shit, schipperkes.)...
Before Pierre The Pelican, There Was Terrifying King Cake Baby
Earlier this week, the Pelicans announced that they'd be redesigning the head of Pierre to make him "less scary". This is disappointing, not only because pelicans should look scary, but also because it spits in the face of New Orleans's proud tradition of nightmarish mascots....
Map: Which States Produce The Most College Basketball Recruits?
Mode Analytics, which previously mapped out where college football players are from, has turned its attention to the much more timely sport of college basketball. The map above shows which states have produced the most current D1 players, relative to their college-age male populations....
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What You Need To Know To Bet On The Super Bowl (Early Edition)
Here is your early betting info for the Super Bowl, including the line movement, bet trend, money line, and over/under, as well as the performance of the Seahawks and Broncos against the spread and O/U this season. There's been a lot of early movement—rare for Super Bowls—and we'll be updating next ...
Maps: Which Of Our Readers Were The Biggest Homers In The HOF Vote?
Thanks to your input, the Deadspin HOF vote—revealed earlier this month—was generally agreed to be pretty decent. That might be letting some of you off the hook a little easy, though. We've given MVP voters plenty of crap for their homer votes; who, among our readership, turned out to be the biggest...
What You Need To Know To Bet On The AFC/NFC Title Games (Late Edition)
Below is your late betting info for the AFC and NFC championship games (you can see the early-week edition here). Spread and over/under movement is now included, and the money lines, over/unders, and bet trend have been updated....
Ken Pomeroy has kicked off his 2014 player of the year watch list, a quantitative ranking based on a "player's value to his team in combination with his team's strength." Doug McDermott (Creighton) holds the top spot for now, followed by Lamar Patterson (Pittsburgh), and Nick Johnson (Arizona). [Ken...
No, Fans Won't Stop Watching If College Players Get Paid
Defending itself in the Ed O'Bannon lawsuit, the NCAA has made some stunning claims. One, backed by an NCAA-commissioned poll, is that people so hate the idea of paying players that they will stop watching college sports if amateurism ends. In the filings, ex-CBS Sports President Neal Pilson estimat...
How To Oscar-Bait Your Way To A Best Picture Nomination
Oscar nominations got released this morning, and the Academy only used nine of the 10 Best Picture slots (snubbing All Is Lost, Fruitvale Station, Inside Llewyn Davis, or The Butler, depending on what you're into). Last year, we took a look at the IMDB plot keywords that were most—and least—associat...
100 Charts For AFI's Top 100 Movie Quotes
Just in time for Oscar announcements, Nathan Yau of Flowing Data has made mini-charts for all of AFI's top 100 movie quotes. While not every quote lends itself perfectly to visualization, there are plenty of gems. Here are some of the best:...
Check Out These Bizarre Spinning Field Graphics
In a series of weird graphics, designer Taylor Holland takes vectors of various sports fields and rotates all the individual elements around and around and around. The results are kind of mesmerizing, although not without the occasional unfortunate swastika....
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What You Need To Know To Bet On The AFC, NFC Title Games
Here is your early betting info for the championship round of the playoffs this weekend. We'll update on Thursday with spread and over/under movement....
Deadspin Up All Night: Nobody's Dirty Business
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