A Longer NFL Season?
From the Washington Post (via DOL): Sentiment among NFL leaders to reduce the preseason to two or three games per team and lengthen the regular …
From the Washington Post (via DOL): Sentiment among NFL leaders to reduce the preseason to two or three games per team and lengthen the regular …
Two diverse mentions of Moneyball over the past week. Both lend credibility to treating the Moneyball approach as a technological innovation in the assessing of …
Although it took the Wagner Act to get the ball rolling, American sports unions have thrived for two reasons. First, they serve a group of …
It’s official. The Baltimore expansion franchise in the LFL, Lingerie Football League for the uninformed, will be called the Baltimore Charm. For those snickering at …
Liverpool will earn a cool £98.1 million in UEFA prize money if they can vanquish fellow English side Tottenham in the Champions League final. Spurs …
A few more stories on the proposed intervention to regulate European football emerged today. The Evening Standard, a London paper, carried a story that UEFA …
(Crossposted at Market Power) I was critical of Terrell Owens’ public disgracing of teammates and supported the Eagles’ decision to suspend him. But because the …
From the NYTimes (reg. req’d): C. Frederick Mosteller, the founding chairman of Harvard’s statistics department and a pioneer in using statistics to analyze an array …
Poker is a type of card game that corresponds to a combination of gambling, strategy, and skillset. Betting is an intrinsic part of poker. The …
When Dale Earnhardt died at Daytona in 2001, shock waves reverberated around NASCAR. In response, engineers have redesigned cars to provide extra safety measures. The …
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