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3/22/13

Harvard's Basketball Team Works Better Than Harvard

Sometimes Harvard Yard literally smells like bullshit. The grass takes a regular beating from the weather and the…

3/8/13

“Are You A Nerd?” And Other Questions We Asked Our Fellow Nerds At The Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

Last weekend, I went to the sixth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Attendance has gone up every year,…

2/4/13

The Ravens Won The "Fuck" Bowl, Too: An Analysis Of Twitter Profanity During The Super Bowl

Twitter reports that the Super Bowl generated 24 million tweets last night. Most of them were terrible, so I just…

1/25/13

<em>Inside The NBA</em> Got A Little Gay-Baity Last Night

Inside The NBA Got A Little Gay-Baity Last Night

During halftime of last night's Clippers-Suns game, the Inside the NBA crew had some fun at the expense of Charles…

1/9/13

A Vote For Roger Clemens Was A Vote For Barry Bonds: The Politics Of The Hall Of Fame Ballot, By The Numbers [UPDATE]

Hall of fame ballots follow their own own internal logic. For instance, regardless of how they feel about steroids,…

11/16/12

Help us with an experiment: Pick a number from 1-100 and leave it in the discussion below. We'll explain later.

11/6/12

Who Are The Computers Voting For? We Ask Siri And Others For Advice

I'm about to go vote, and I haven't read up much on the issues. I don't know which candidate loves America more or…

11/5/12

Vote Melky Cabrera for the Heart & Hustle Award. You can't question his effort. Read more

11/1/12

Nate Silver's Braying Idiot Detractors Show That Being Ignorant About Politics Is Like Being Ignorant About Sports

In case you haven't been hanging around the benighted corners of the political internet lately, there's an idiotic…

10/30/12

The Giants Sure Use A Lot Of Sabermetrics For An Anti-Sabermetric Team

The Giants' World Series title is the latest point of retreat for the desperate sportswriter still looking to slam…

10/25/12

Presenting The Deadspin Fantasy Football Almanac: An Unofficial Record Book For 1970-2011

10/15/12

The Many, Many Tweets Referring To Alex Rodriguez As "Fag," "Pussy," And "Gay-Rod"

Alex Rodriguez is both straight and male, but you wouldn't know it from the insults lobbed his way on Twitter over…

10/12/12

Even If Icing The Kicker Doesn't Work, It's Better Than Never Icing The Kicker

Mike Tomlin iced the kicker twice last night, but with an unfortunate twist: First, he called a timeout on his own…

10/12/12

Bud Selig's New, Random Postseason Knows The Soul Of Baseball Better Than You Think

Out of the 22 playoff games in the first two rounds of the MLB playoffs, 12 have featured at least one team on the…

10/4/12

How The Crazy-Ass AL Division Races Unfolded: Visualizing Momentum

The Athletics and the Yankees clinched their respective division titles on the same day, but the paths they took to…

9/28/12

When Good Statistics Go Bad: The Case Against The Case Against R.A. Dickey

R.A. Dickey, objectively speaking, is the greatest human being in history. His knuckleball destroys cities and he…

9/25/12

This Is The Angriest America Has Been At Referees Since The 2006 Super Bowl

What would motivate you to Google "referee?" Nothing good (unless you're counting sexy bedroom role-play costumes,…

9/13/12

Just How Tight Is The AL Playoff Race?

With three weeks to go in the season, over half of baseball is still in the race. Seventeen teams are within five…

9/11/12

This R2D2 Keg Is The Droid You've Been Looking For Your Entire Life

Meet R2DKEG, the most popular drug-dispensing robot at the LSU tailgate (because C-3PBLOW will not fucking shut…