There's no great secret that pre-season tickets are the biggest scam in the great cascade of scams that fuels the…
With college football kicking off tonight, SEC fans bragging about their championships and Big Ten fans boasting…
In non-Olympic years, there's no wider chasm of utter sports emptiness than late July and August. NBA and NHL free…
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Last Wednesday, we launched an impossibly ambitious project: cataloguing every police-involved shooting in America…
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Hang around sports stat nerds long enough, and you'll hear one of them spew out, "Injuries are the new Moneyball,"…
Here's a neat little interactive by Chris Polis, showing every game in the NFL season, and how each team connects to…
With the Little League World Series winding down to the final few teams, there's a question that dances across the…
The United States has no database of police shootings. There is no standardized process by which officers log…
Yesterday, the NBA released its schedule, and everyone rushed to talk about when the big games are happening…
Admission into the Baseball Hall of Fame has been called baseball's highest honor. Lately, it's also been baseball's…
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If a quarterback has a chance to be a star, chances are it will become apparent within two seasons. Chase Stuart of F…
The chart above from August Fagerstrom of FanGraphs shows which teams this season have had the most and least…
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The famously grisly mortality rates of Game of Thrones are plenty fascinating enough on their own, and have…