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Do You Deserve That Foul Ball? Consult This Handy Chart There's some impassioned debate going on in the comments on the post about the couple in Texas failing to surrender a foul ball to the weeping child beside them. What are the real rules, here? Possession is nine-tenths of the law? Children first? What's the right thing to do to avoid the censure of...

Homemade Infographic: What Were The Gayest (And Straightest) Super Bowl Halftime Shows?We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....

Homemade Infographic: Google Images Isn't Excited About The Los Angeles Clippers YetHave Chris Paul and Blake Griffin led Los Angeles's No. 2 NBA team into a new era of respect and recognition yet? Here's an analysis of results from a Google Images search for "Clippers": ...

Homemade Infographic: When's Your Bowl Season?

Congratulations! Your football conference got invited to some bowl games. But "bowl game" covers nearly four weeks' worth of possibilities—from the MAC-WAC showdown in last week's Famous Idaho Potato Bowl to the SEC-on-SEC Alabama-LSU rematch in the national title game on Jan. 9....

Homemade Infographic: Is The World Series Famous Enough For Dirk Nowitzki?

Maybe Major League Baseball is preventing Dirk Nozitzki from throwing out the first pitch for the Texas Rangers for some reason other than as a courtesy to NBA owners, an intersport extension of the basketball lockout. Maybe it really is that as they weighed "what makes sense for the team and a good...

Homemade Infographic: Where Are ESPN's Naked Jocks Hiding And Tucking Their Bits?

The conceptual problem with ESPN The Magazine's Body Issue leads directly into the practical problem with it. Conceptually, as soon as you strip off the athletes' clothing to call more attention to their forms, you diminish the function that's supposed be integral to those forms, and you call attent...

A Homemade Infographic To Help Explain Who Is Still Chasing The Pennant And Who Is Not

Adrian Beltre, who the Boston Red Sox decided not to keep around this year, hit three home runs this afternoon, carrying the Texas Rangers into the American League Championship Series. That's two more homers than any Red Sox third baseman hit in any game this year. Just one of those subtle statistic...

A Homemade Infographic Explaining How Badly Mark Sanchez Played Last Night

Here's a breakdown of the 235 yards Mark Sanchez produced in Baltimore, as he powered the Ravens past his own New York Jets....