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You Guys, It's A Pythagorean World Series This Year!
The Red Sox and Cardinals led the AL and NL in run differential this season, and now they're in the World Series. This is very far from breaking news, but still, it's the first time that's happened since 2007. To celebrate (kind of), Stats in the Wild put together a few fun bubble charts showing the...
100 % Dundee
Here's a couple of stories about Angelo Dundee. From Grantland, a nice piece by Dave Kindred; at SI, dig Richard Hoffer:...
Kevin Love Wins White Guy Award From NBA Executives
The NBA season is right around the corner, and you know what that means: Time for another preseason survey in which the league's 30 general managers answer various questions of varying degrees of inanity. You'll note that, way down at the bottom, the NBA asks an especially weird one:...
You Could Spend All Day Playing "Six Degrees Of Kevin Garnett"
Over at Slate, Ben Blatt has put together something amazing and useless and entirely engrossing. Plug in any two athletes from the history of professional baseball, football, and basketball, and it will connect them via teammates in as few steps as possible....
Sage Steele Takes <em>NBA Countdown</em> Hosting Job
Last week we told you that ESPN had offered Sage Steele the host's job for NBA Countdown. It took her a few days, but she has said yes. ...
"Reach-Around": Beavis And Butthead Read The Sports
Here's Steve Levy and Scott Van Pelt hehehehe-ing their way through Giants-Vikings highlights. SVP describes Jared Allen "reaching around" the lineman to sack Eli Manning and Steve Levy apparently could not resist saying "reach-around." ...
It's Too Soon To Say That Jermichael Finley Is "Going To Be Fine"
For the second time in the past month, Green Bay Packers tight end Jermichael Finley has sustained a serious head injury while playing football. And while he appears to be recovering movement following a temporary paralysis immediately after the injury, it's a stark reminder that the effects of head...
NFL Spreads, Visualized: <em>Monday Night Football</em> And Week 8
Based on your feedback from last Friday, we've made a few changes to our visual guide to NFL betting lines. Here's what's new:...
Chiefs Fan Passes Out, Wakes Up, Pisses Himself, Keeps Watching Game
This picture, which may in fact be the saddest picture you will ever see, was snapped by a reader at this Sunday's Chiefs game. Our reader sends along the following bit of context:...
No One Is Signing Tim Tebow
Mike Silver, formerly trolling for Yahoo Sports, now trolls for NFL.com. And the league understands just as well as anyone the value of putting the nation on Tebow Alert, even when there's absolutely nothing to it....
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Jay Cutler Injured, Questionable To Return [Update: Out]
Congratulations Jay Cutler! You just became the most-sacked Bears quarterback of all-time, with the 158th punishing blow coming courtesy of Washington's Chris Baker. How are you going to celebrate? By heading to the locker room with a groin injury? Oh....
No Matter How Far You Go, You Can't Outrun Stupid
You think you've exhausted the myriad avenues available to you in which it is possible to be an idiot at life and then you have a week like this one. Whatever the opposite of Mad Genius is, that's me. Recovering Fatass Soundtrack: Sane Moron Edition. Let's get down to brass tacks, shall we? Your Spo...
Man, College Was Awesome: Your Clemson-FSU <i>GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
It's once again time for the Saturday afternoon tradition of oak-tag-and-sharpie bons mots. Today we are back in Death Valley where Clemson hosts Florida State this evening on ABC. Before we get to the signs, I'd like to just take a moment, for the adults here, to reflect on how fucking radical coll...
Chart: Friendly Reminder, Don't Bet On Favorites To Cover Huge Spreads
If you happened to bet on the Broncos to cover last week, David Yanofsky over at Quartz has put together a great chart to show just how much of a dumbass move that was....
NFL Betting Lines, Visualized: Week 7
So you want to gamble on football. Good—gambling is damn wonderful. Here's a resource to make looking at this week's lines a little more informative....
Tom Terrific And His Mystic Talent
From Pat Jordan's 1972 SI profile of Tom Seaver:...
West Coast NFL Teams Coming East Really Do Suck Against The Spread
West coast teams don't do well when they have to come east. It's a betting wrinkle well known enough to be axiomatic, but here's a thorough reminder—with some additional facts you might not have known. ...
Does Dustin Pedroia—Or Any Pro Athlete—Have A Right To Privacy?
The bearded, hundred-million-dollar face of the Red Sox franchise played through much of the 2013 season with an injury he wishes you never heard about. And the thing is, maybe you shouldn't have. ...
Holy Crap, José Iglesias
José Iglesias has made a number of spectacular plays this season, but his race from a right-of-second-base shift to snatch a popup from David Ortiz helped make what has been a bad night for the Tigers slightly less terrible....