Timex Weekender is a $30-$40 watch that you can buy at any department store or online ... but this one is $180?? http://www.amazon.com/Timex-Unisex-T…

My favorite rocker who is way older than you would ever guess is Andy Summers of The Police, who is, I shit you not, SEVENTY-ONE. He's older than Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, even George Harrison. He was 41 when The Police broke up ... 30 years ago.

He is the father of Vi Hart, who is herself a minor internet celebrity for her even trippier math-oriented videos (and for her Lisa-Loeb's-little-sister geeky appeal.)

I think the author meant it was "disappointing" to know that the ball only went 410' given that, to hit the ball completely out of most other ballparks, it has to travel a lot farther than that. Fenway park is so lopsided that "in the parking lot across the street" in left is the same distance as the third or fourth…

410' looks about right according to Google Earth. But just for fun, I drew in a 410' homer to RIGHT field, which just clears the bullpen by a few rows. Why would anyone pay a non-zero number of dollars to sit in those last few rows of the RF bleachers at Fenway - they're farther from the plate than the Coors Rockpile.

"Dong" reached peak popularity in 1956 and was used widely until the late '70s - guessing that the Vietnam War (Vietnamese currency is the dong and the North Vietnamese Premier was Pham Van Dong) plus the Chinese Dongfeng Missile and Mao Zedong, etc. all contributed to Peak Dong.

Kirk Goldsberry to the rescue! It looks like 29' is about the point where shooters average 27% (i.e. 0.81 pts per attempt) with the three-point shot, which means 1.08 pts per attempt if they counted for four apiece. Of course the court is only 50' wide so a 29' four-point arc would intersect the sideline. Presumably…

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It's actually 1169 years, not 1170, because there was no year 0.

BTW, there have been 9 no hitters in MLB history with 14+ strikeouts, and Ryan has four of the nine. Kershaw, Don Wilson, Spahn, and the Cain and Koufax perfectos are the others.

Strikeouts and walks in Ryan no-hitters:

I actually refer to my immersion blender as "the hummus maker" because that's all I ever use it for - I just make the hummus right in the chickpea can. Drain about 2/3 of the liquid, add your oil, sesame, spices, whatever, plunge the hummus maker right into the can, and you have hummus in a can.

"I'd love to see the NHL take a page from the CCHA, which awards ..."

NFL kickers were .948 on PATs in 1942 and .927 in 1943, so that lends further credence to your "replacement player" theory. But something else must have happened too.

The NFL was 16/62 (.258) on FG attempts in 1943 after going 33/81 (.407) the year before. Kickers who didn't attempt a FG the year before were 7/26 (.269) and veteran kickers were just as bad at 9/36 (.250.) So replacement talent is part of the story but there must have been something else that happened. In fact, I…

Can this be right - kickers made ~25% of their field goals one season ca. 1943? What did they do, make the ball out of feathers that year to save leather for the war effort? Why would you even bother attempting a 1/4 shot at 3 points?

Frank Tarkenton's 1990 title with UNLV is one of the moments that Armenian-American sports fans hold dear, right up there with Braves' reliever Jack Kevorkian winning the 1987 NL Cy Young Award.

Actually, my all-time favorite cherry-picked stat is that Paul Derringer had the most wins in baseball from 1931-45. It's my standard reply to people who argue that Morris' win totals over a certain arbitrary window of time merit HOF induction.

The graph didn't intend to dip below zero - the graph was just drawn with "curve smoothing" turned on, which made the line appear to dip below zero just as a baserunner takes a bowed path around the bases.

Trying to think of historical fights that would have been altered by these proposed guidelines. The most obvious one is that Meldrick Taylor would have been stopped in his first fight with Julio Cesar Chavez (since Taylor did sustain a fractured orbital bone, in addition to other severe injuries.) Lennox Lewis broke…