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Here's A New Attempt At Gauging The Defensive Impact Of NBA Players
The defensive impact of individual NBA players is hard to measure, as it's so intertwined with their teammates' performance. Austin Clemens, undeterred, has taken an ambitious shot with his new Adjusted Impact by Court Location model, which attempts to parse out individual impacts on opponent shot s...
Even When The Spurs Lose, Gregg Popovich Wins
The Spurs may have lost to the Thunder last night, but Gregg Popovich continued to win his war against reporters who dare to ask him questions. ...
The Thunder Are The Thunder Again, And This Is A Brand New Series
I suppose we can go ahead and forget about the first two games of the Western Conference finals, which saw the Serge Ibaka-less Thunder getting swallowed whole by the Spurs while Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant did their best to fight off the inevitable. We can forget those two games because Ser...
Congratulations To Dan Patrick, GOP Nominee For Lieutenant Governor
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Opponents Barred From Speaking As Cobb County Approves Braves Stadium
This is the point where you just tip your cap to the Braves, and acknowledge that they won. Even at a time when politicians and taxpayers are getting wary about publicly funding stadiums, the Braves just walked away with nearly $400 million from Cobb County, Ga., for a new ballpark, and did so witho...
When Pole Vaulters Get Bored
Pole vaulting has to be one of the dangerous disciplines in track and field (google "Pole Vault Accident" sometime). Despite the danger, there is still the boredom of war, and the above video has it all, yips-free: one-legged vaulting, vaulting off of shit, catching shit while vaulting, and vaulting...
The Story Of 50 Cent's Abysmal First Pitch, In Three Photos
We thought we were done with 50 Cent's shitty first pitch, but we found another way to appreciate it. Enjoy these three photos that tell the tale of Fitty's pitch without actually showing the pitch. Think of it as a short play....
Cyclist Wins, Promptly Eats Shit
From the 2014 Tour of Somerville in New Jersey, 18-year-old Noah Granigan celebrated his tight victory in the junior criterium race with arms raised . . . and then immediately went down hard, sliding a good thirty feet past the finish....
50 Cent Threw A Horrendous First Pitch At Tonight's Mets Game
50 Cent threw out the first pitch at Citi Field tonight, so let's all watch as one of the most successful rappers ever fails to throw a baseball anywhere near home plate....
Heights And Weights Of Athletes, By Position, In The "Big Four" Sports
Last fall, Craig Booth put together an excellent series of charts on the heights and weights of current NFL players, by position. Now Sportchart—who created that NHL map from a few weeks ago—has taken the analysis a step further, comparing the height and weight distributions of major positions acros...
Mic'd Up Patrice Bergeron Is A Must For Hockey Fans
Every hockey player should wear a microphone at all times. These wonderful exchanges—between P.K. Subban and Patrice Bergeron, and between Bergeron and referee Dan O'Halloran—show how your penalty (or no-call) sausage is made....
Where Jürgen Klinsmann Comes From
Before Jürgen Klinsmann snubbed Landon Donovan, before he coached Bayern Munich or the U.S. and German national teams, before he won the UEFA Cup as a player with Internazionale and again with Bayern, before winning the World Cup and captaining the German team to the European Championship, he lived ...
Watch Two Relay Runners Smash Together In Slo-Mo
During the 2014 World Relays women's 4 x 1500-meter final, Australia was in hot pursuit of Kenya at the handoff. The batons were passed, Australia's Zoe Buckman slowed to a walk, and that's when this brilliant moment was immortalized....
The Fastest Boys In The U.S. Have No Track
"Yeah, can you tell me where the track is?"...
Barry Trotz Is Just The Right Coach For Alex Ovechkin
Fair or not, every Capitals coach over the last several years has ultimately been judged by what he has been able to get out of Alex Ovechkin. Next up: Barry Trotz....
Macedonians Bemused When Wrong Anthem Played At Friendly Match
It's international friendly season, as teams either get their final tune-ups before heading to Brazil for the World Cup or regroup to make a run at qualifying for 2018. Macedonia took on Cameroon yesterday in Austria, but ran into a bit of trouble before the match even started....
Jared Remy Pleads Guilty, Sentenced To Life Without Parole
Jared Remy, son of longtime Red Sox broadcaster Jerry, pleaded guilty today to the brutal murder of the mother of his child. For a man with a history of domestic abuse and who received inexplicable second and third and, hell, seventeenth chances, this is it: He'll spend life in prison without the po...
Vince Wilfork Is The King Of Memorial Day Barbecues
Patriots defensive tackle Vince Wilfork and his wife Bianca had a Memorial Day barbecue, and big Vince was in the damn zone while tending to his ribs. ...