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Get a load of last night’s Jeopardy! contestants, who knew all sorts of rivers and peace treaties, but not this.…

After 15 seasons as a big leaguer, Jayson Werth is out of baseball this year, which has given the 39-year-old an…

A lot of the fun in going to see a world attention-grabbing movie on opening night is getting swept up in the pomp.…

It’s the early 2000s, and I’m working at a bar across the street from the convention center where Comic-Con is held.…

Over the weekend, the first four episodes of Game of Thrones leaked onto torrent sites. In one day, they were…

"Pro Sports Teams" was a category on Teen Jeopardy this evening and none of the contestants wanted anything to do…

Geoff Foster of the Wall Street Journal has done the lord's work. He went back and watched every touchdown…

How unlikely was Tom Brady's game-winning pass to Kenbrell Thompkins? Unlikely enough to make this Win Probability…

On September 17, 1977, Carleton College and St. Olaf College played the Liter Bowl, the first NCAA-sanctioned game…

David Price had a rough outing yesterday, giving up seven runs in seven innings and losing Game 2 to the Red Sox.…

Television is the worst. Look at what's happened to the MLB Network's house numbers guy, Brian Kenny, who's spent…

Thirty-three years and more than 50,000 episodes on, SportsCenter is less a television show or a convenient way to…

Two years ago, our friends at the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective applied their usual rigorous statistical…

From Thomas Boswell's column in today's Washington Post:

The Seattle Mariners optioned once-promising second baseman Dustin Ackley to Triple A yesterday because Ackley has…

Goddammit, guy.

Here's Noble Ackerson, a so-called "Glass Explorer," trying out his Google Glass in a gym session yesterday. The…

This picture is art. I can't stop looking at it. It almost made me happy for Harvard, in some demented, twisted…