Bear: [hiding in back seat]

For God's sake, it couldn't possibly be because he's not all that. The Algeria goal? A dead cat could have picked up that rebound. It doesn't even shine the shoes of Maradona v England, Gemmill v Holland, Grosso v Germany, and dozens of others. Turn off the hyperbole machine and get some rest. Next month is going to…

Vuvuzelas even manage to ruin the highlights years later.

Nothing better explains the abject mediocrity that has been USMNT soccer the past decade than the fact that Landon Donovan was considered its best player. Except maybe the fact that his departure is considered anything other than a very good thing for the future of the USMNT.

What's that you were saying?

This is the stupidest "paper" I have ever read. What it says is: people who make bets that are more likely to win are more likely to win their next bet (because they are going to bet on the favorite again).

Aside from the obvious problem of ignoring expected value of the bets (and just focusing on frequency of wins/losses), isn't there a pretty high potential for sampling bias here? As in, its more likely that the people who went on win streaks were already better bettors than the people on losing streaks. Accordingly,…

It did no such thing. This study looked at sports gambling, which never has fixed odds. They can change based on a variety of factors and skilled researchers can improve theirs by knowing things other betters do not. The odds of betting on say, a coin flip, are always 50-50. They never change no matter what.

I despise reporting like this. Gambling streaks are NOT real! The finding is that gamblers tend to make lower risk bets when on a hot streak and vice versa. The way this is phrased and charted is deceptive and blatant click bait.

So basically... if you place bets that are easier to win because they offer worse odds, you win more often?

Also - buy more memory. It is dirt cheap. I have 32Gigs on my home rig, and 16gigs on my laptop and if my browser takes up 2gigs (which it often does as I usually have 250+ tabs open (don't judge)) I don't really care. I hate ads so much that I'd rather spend a few bucks on memory to not ever see one again.

Confession: I use almost no browser extensions. Fast and light, man. The majority of extensions I used to use (like tab manager stuff, better download progress bars) have been baked in. I would wonder if the memory hoggingness of ABP would be worth it to avoid Flash ads, because of how much processing power they take,…

Extra memory usage is worth it. Not seeing ads and lots of empty space is preferable to not having malware and spyware dropped on my machine. When the internet stops is current advertising schemes, then I will consider stopping using ABP. Until then, I will carry on.

I'm curious why the person taking the video was filming her in the first place. The scene opens with her pretty normal, checking her phone, etc.

Call me overcautious, but I don't think a Russian plutocrat would be the person I would choose to try and squeeze for money with these kinds of tactics. Something about not being beaten to death by men in track suits and leather jackets has always appealed to me.

Not a lot of continuity in Brooklyn. From their final season in NJ, 2 years ago, they have only 2 players remaining - D-Will and Lopez, their only home-grown star, who played 5 games that year and 17 this year. Rookie coach, new owner, aging hired mercenaries and a bad arena PA (see Sam Feinberg's comment) means a…

MSG has a built-in audience that has been coming to games for years and years. Barclays can't build that kind of success overnight. But the organization could cure a lot of the "bad crowd" problems by updating their in-game presentation and saving us from too-loud 90's techno songs and piped in "BROOOOOOOOKLYN" chants…