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How Will The 2014 World Cup Ball Swerve? An Aerodynamic Test
There are now only a few months to go until the biggest sporting event of 2014—the FIFA World Cup in Brazil—and questions are being asked. Will the stadiums be ready? Are the airports ready for the crowds? But one matter rises above all others, and may have an impact on the destiny of the cup itself...
The Best Part Of The Sloan Conference Is All The Pro Sports Gamblers
By now, we've heard about all the different kinds of geniuses and salesmen and Malcolm Gladwells at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. It's true, you'll find all kinds of wonderful nerds there. What they don't tell you is that the guys having the most fun are probably the sports bettors, wh...
Two Days At Sloan: How Sports Analytics Got Lost In The Fog
"You're hiding all the good numbers from me." ...
The Cleats Everyone Will Wear At The World Cup Seem To Fucking Suck
So our staff illustrator was perusing the sneaker blogs today when he happened upon this neon-yellow/afterbirth abomination: the Nike Magista. These bad boys were first unveiled to the world today in Barcelona, and they're fucking fugly. That's fine; shoes don't have souls and they don't have mirror...
Diego Costa Snubs Brazil For Spain And Could Swing The World Cup
Diego Costa is, at this moment, the best Brazilian striker in the world. The 21 goals he's scored for this year's title-challenging Atlético Madrid team are the fourth highest tally in the top five European leagues. Normally, you'd think Costa's impressive resumé would see him as one of the faces of...
Would You Rather Have A Celebrity Autograph Or A Celebrity Selfie?
I was at an intersection on a six lane road the other day and I had to make a left. So in the opposite lane nearest to me, a Good Samaritan stopped to let me turn. The problem was that she was basically asking me to commit suicide, because motorists in the next two lanes over gave the zeroest of f...
Which Rapper Had The Best Athletic Career?
This list is ranked in order of athletic proficiency, not skills on the mic....
Grierson & Leitch Predict The Oscar Categories You Actually Care About
Yesterday, to help you out with your pool, Grierson made predictions in all the technical Oscar categories. Today, we both make our predictions for the eight major categories, the ones you actually care about. Let's go to it....
Sochi's Most Memorable Moments As Rendered By Old-School Video Games
We're loath to see the Sochi Olympics go—truth be told, a few of us are starting to miss Nightmare Bear—so we enlisted the help of old video game consoles to help recreate some of the Winter Games' most memorable moments. Hockey, freestyle skiing, curling—they're all here, backed up by an NES, a Seg...
NBC Edited Out 38% Of The Closing Ceremony. Here's What You Missed.
It's no secret NBC makes significant edits to its tape-delayed broadcasts of Olympic ceremonies. We've never seen them leave out as much as they did last night, though, in excising more than 50 minutes from an already brisk Sochi closing ceremony; that left U.S. viewers seeing less than 62% of the e...
Young Child Foolishly Taunts Nightmare Bear
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Closing Ceremony Pokes Fun At Opening Ceremony Blunder
Remember this? The Russians gave it an on-purpose reprise today. Clever!...
NBC Ad Interruption Almost Ruins Gold Medal Winner's Watch Party
Mikaela Shiffrin kept her nerve and won gold in ladies' slalom, but the same can't quite be said for her family members watching at home here in the U.S. As we noted in that piece, NBC Live Extra put up an ad that covered up the first part of her run; that ad affected everyone, and it's no surprise ...
Hundreds Of Migrant Workers Have Died Since Qatar Won The World Cup
Figures obtained by the Guardian and confirmed by the Indian embassy state that there have been 717 deaths among Indians working in Qatar since the Gulf nation was awarded the 2022 World Cup in December 2010. That's just the tip....
We Have Discovered Proto-Nightmare Bear. He Is The Worst Nightmare Bear
The above photo was taken in July of 2007, and it is the oldest image of Nightmare Bear that exists in the AP image archive. Finally, we can trace the ever-evolving Nightmare Bear's birth back to this one dark day....
Canada's Curling Skip Gets Emotional While Watching Final Shot
Jennifer Jones's final stone wrapped up a 6-3 victory for her team in today's gold medal match against Sweden, capping off the Canadian team's unbeaten Olympic run. While watching her shot slide down the ice, the 39-year-old Jones couldn't help but get a little emotional. One thing that's cool about...
Canada's Ladies Win Gold In Curling; Here's Where They Come From
With a 6-3 result over Sweden bringing home gold for captain Jennifer Jones's squad, Canada is exultant over their curling success. In the piece below, Adam Doster explores the culture they came from—it involves beer and pork hearts—by way of finding out just why curling is so much damn fun....
Swiss Women's Hockey Team Wins Bronze Thanks To This Empty Netter
The Swiss took bronze in the women's Olympic hockey tournament today, thanks to this heads up play by 15-year-old forward Alina Muller. Down 3-2 with just over two minutes left to play, the Swedish team pulled its goalie to get an extra attacker on the ice. One minute later, Muller sent home the emp...