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Which NBA Teams Does Your Town Root For?
Like they did for baseball fandoms, The Upshot has put together a map of which zip codes root for which NBA teams, based on Facebook data. It's pretty cool....
Where Do NHL Players Come From?
Sportchart has put together a neat series of maps on the birthplaces of active NHL, NBA, and MLB players. For most graphics like these the players are divvied up by country of origin, but—as you can see from the NHL dots above—this misses a lot of the nuance in the data. Specifically, U.S. players a...
Which Words Are Used To Describe White And Black NFL Prospects?
Do NFL scouts talk about white players and black players differently? Are certain words reserved for white players? Are others used primarily to describe black players?...
What Are The Most "Overrated" and "Underrated" Movies?
What movies do audiences love, but critics hate? Over on his blog, Ben Moore tackles this question with data scraped from the Rotten Tomatoes API. The chart above shows the critic and audience scores for over 1,200 films; movies that scored high with viewers (and were panned by critics) are in red i...
Miami TV Station Reports Dwyane Wade Banned For Life
That's probably not true!...
Liverpool Would Have The Biggest Turnaround For A Champion In 29 Years
The race for the Premier League title got a lot closer this Sunday, as Liverpool fell to Chelsea and Manchester City topped Crystal Palace. With one fewer game played, City holds the goal differential tiebreak over Liverpool, and is currently a 4/5 favorite to win it all....
CNN Uses Charles Barkley's DUI Mugshot During Sterling Story
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Is Frank Vogel An Elite Quarterback?
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Huge Game For Mozgov!
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Who Were The Tallest Athletes In History?
As part of the new collection Sportographica, the chart above shows the tallest players in history by sport/league/discipline. While there isn't a regular-sized human in there to give you context, consider this: If you stacked all these professional athletes on top of each others, the pile would str...
Charts: Your Spending Habits Get Lamer As You Age
In a neat series of charts, NPR Planet Money looks at how spending changes over the course of an average American's lifetime. All the data are indexed against the average spending of 25-year-olds, which is when "Bars And Clubs" spending peaks, and not much else....
Graphic: The History Of NHL Home Jerseys
Reddit user Tomer139 has created this fantastic chart showing the evolution of the home sweaters of every NHL team. It's massive, so click below or here to see it at full size....
No, CBS, Alligators Are Not Amphibians
They are reptiles....
How Have The Weights Of NFL Positions Changed Over Time?
Craig Booth—who previously made those NFL height/weight charts—just released a great series of graphics showing how the median weights of various positions have changed since 1950, based on data from Pro Football Reference. Booth isn't the first to visualize this sort of trend, but the inclusion of ...
ESPN: Living In The Past
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I Heard His Son Is Pretty Good, Too
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"Bearded Farve" A Local Bristol Delicacy
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Was 2013 Really The Golden Age Of The Black Quarterback?
Charts excerpted from The Big Book Of Black Quarterbacks, published Feb. 6th....
Which Winter Olympic Sport Has The Biggest Athletes?
Originally published on Mode Analytics....
No, That's Not Right
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