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Infographic: Where Do NFL Draft Picks Come From?
Tonight, we get to watch the first round of one of the saddest NFL drafts in recent memory, with teams tripping over each other trying to trade down in a weak year. Even in the good years, success in the college game doesn't always translate to the pros, but some regions and conferences have a reput...
Report: Boston Bombing Suspect Was A 9/11 Truther
The AP just published a story that sheds some light on how the elder Boston Marathon bombing suspect, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, reportedly came to adopt a very radical worldview in the years leading up to he and his brother Dzhokahr's attack on the Boston Marathon....
Are Men More Likely To Stand On The Subway Than Women?
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MLB Retired Numbers, Infographic'd
Daniel Tewfik has wrangled up the data on the numbers retired by MLB teams, and put together a slew of visualizations. We love this stuff....
The First Question For The Governor Was From A Conspiracy Theorist
At Deval Patrick's 9:00 press conference on today's bombings, the first question, the very first question, contained the words: "Is this another false flag attack staged to take our civil liberties?"...
How'd They Make That <em>Jurassic Park</em> Dinosaur Noise? A Handy Chart
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Watch Prince Fielder Beat Out An Infield Single
He steals bases! He can't be caught in a rundown! And ... [grunt] ... now ... [heave] ... he's ... [grunt] ... sprinting ... [gasp] ... for infield singles even when he hits the ball to the right side! [exhale] There's just no stopping Prince Fielder on the base paths. He's this generation's Rickey ...
OK, Maybe It's Time For Patriots Fans To Start Panicking About Rob Gronkowski's Injured Arm
Rob Gronkowski woke up to find his left forearm, operated on three times since November, was swollen and leaking. An infection, contracted sometime after his second surgery, has not cleared up as expected. An immediate cross-country flight back to Boston and a medical examination later, and now ther...
Infographic: Now That's What I Call Global Dominance
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Infographics: Where Do High School Basketball Stars Come From, And Where Do They Go?
Last month, the McDonald's All-American Game released its 2013 rosters. The game is a showcase of some of the best high school talent in the country, which this year largely came out of Texas (five players), California (four), Florida (three), and North Carolina (two). Of these 14 players, only five...
The Deadspin Guide To Goalkeeping
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“Are You A Nerd?” And Other Questions We Asked Our Fellow Nerds At The Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
Last weekend, I went to the sixth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Attendance has gone up every year, and it gets harder and harder to get a feel for who actually goes to this thing: Why were they there? Were they still all sabermetrics geeks? High-powered businessmen? To find out, I di...
Colin Farrell, <em>Dead Man Down</em>, And Why It's Pointless For Bloggers To Give Actors Career Advice
It's common for film sites to do some kind of "career advice" column where they analyze a Hollywood star's trajectory and try to figure out what kinds of roles the actor should or shouldn't be doing. Will and I used to do this for The Projector, so I understand the impulse: You see a career that may...
How To Cook Bacon, Eggs, And Toast: A Guide For Infomercial Skeptics
So I had the occasion, brain-fried and worked-over and at best quasi-sentient by the end of some long recent day, to plop my faltering attention on some cable channel well outside the familiar rotation and there, eventually, to be captivated—horrified, really, the gape-jawed half-smiling horror of e...
The Known Universe Of TV's Funny People, Mapped
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Rob Gronkowski Had Surgery For An Infection. Uh-Oh?
Rob Gronkowski was scheduled to be the NFL Network's red carpet correspondent for the Oscars, but mysteriously canceled on Friday. Busted Coverage's Gronkowski party photos, which are akin to the GPS tags conservationists use to track endangered species, haven't been updated since last Tuesday. The ...
The NCAA And Miami Prepare For Battle
The NCAA has always gotten what it wanted. Because it made up the rules, and is the sole enforcer of them, the NCAA has never not been able to push around anyone in its way, be it players, programs or politicians. This time could have been different. After the investigation was screwed up so spectac...
Did The Movie <em>Heathers</em> Kill The Name Heather?
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How'd Those Fans Get There? A Deeper Dive Into The Facebook NFL Fandom Map
After weeks of us awkwardly guessing who wanted to watch which NFL games, Facebook finally used its terrifying trove of user data and made the map that no one else could. In our original post, we pointed out some of the more surprising fan pockets, but the data deserve a deeper dive. ...