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Mexico Talks Shit About Brazil: What Other Countries Are SayingAt the end of today, all 32 participating nations will have played a World Cup game. The interactive map below has a roundup of interesting coverage from some of these nations; mouseover the red countries to read their reports....

What Are Other Countries Saying About The World Cup?The U.S. recently produced the worst piece of soccer coverage of all time, but how are other countries reacting to the World Cup? ...

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?...

How To Plan A Road Trip To All 30 MLB Ballparks In 30 Days

Over at Slate, Eric Brewster and Ben Blatt have put together a very cool tool that completely automates an itinerary for you for a <30-day road trip to every MLB park. It's pretty useful—if you have the leisure time and bank account to run off and do something like this. Go poke around at it and pla...

Feel Old With Our "How Many Pro Athletes Are Younger Than You?" Tool

An important milestone on your inexorable march toward bleak death is the sudden realization that most professional athletes are younger than you are. To help this along, the tool below calculates the percentage of players in the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB who are already younger than you are at this ve...

These Cool Interactives Will Help Guide You To Bracket Success

Over at The Power Rank, Grantland's Ed Feng has put together a nice interactive bracket with his tournament predictions, based on his own ranking system. If you go to his site and click on individual teams, you'll see the odds that they advance through various rounds. If you click on individual game...

What Makes A Stanley Cup Champion? More Hockey Interactives To Explore

Continuing our industry-leading coverage of interactive hockey infographics, the charts above are a selection from an excellent piece of data viz by Dark Horse Analytics, which explore the relationship between payroll/attendance/offense/penalties and team performance....