Did they rotate the selections somehow, so that nobody could pick multiple squares a time? Or do it auction-style, with each square going to the highest bidder?

Years ago I went to a Braves game with some friends and one of them spent the entire game filling out literally hundreds and hundreds of all-star ballots, each with a single vote for Bobby Bonilla. Now, of course, in the age of online voting, smartass kids can just sit at home and manipulate the voting, but in the old…

In general I agree with you about luck in sports, but I'm not sure baseball is the best example. The strength of a baseball team varies from game to game more than in any other major sport, since so much of team's likelihood of winning has to do with who happens to be pitching that day.

Given their dismay over how wide open Carmelo Anthony was on that three, I think it's safe to assume they hadn't noticed the Spurs were playing 4-on-5.

I've done the vast majority of my NFL-watching in Georgia and North Florida, so I can't really speak to the rest of the country, but I'm often amazed at how diverse rooting interests in the South can be. You can go to a sports bar on a Sunday afternoon and find a handful of fans of just about every team (and going to…

Serious question from someone who thinks Collinsworth is by far the best analyst on TV: Is it possible that some of the antipathy toward him has to do with his (rather slight) Southern accent?

I don't really know what you're talking about, and I don't think you know what I'm talking about. But I'm not going to just keep repeating myself, so...try reading my above comments again, I guess.

All of the pro leagues (CFL, AFL, etc.) use the same or similar age restrictions as the NFL. Thus, football players less than three years removed from high school have no way to play football professionally. That's why I give a flying fuck. If it was like baseball, where talented high school players could either go to…

...who gives a flying fuck if student athletes generate income for the school? So do theatre students, film students, and countless others.

One of the many, many problems with college football right now is the complete lack of competitive balance. Having 120+ teams competing for the same championship in a sport where teams can only reasonably play one game a week is absurd, and has led to a system where the best teams don't play more than a small handful…

Honestly, and I say this as someone who cares a lot about transgender rights, this sort of bigotry is still so common and widespread that I don't think it necessarily precludes a person from being decent in general. It's like being racist in the 50s—it was just as wrong then as it is now, but in the 50s it was still…

Yes, whatever would Devin Hester do if all kickoffs were replaced with punts? Return punts?

I'm not sure a set of rules has ever been proposed under which a team could be competitive despite being consistently unable to stop the opposing offense on 4th and 15.

I won't even pretend to know why, but the blackout rules only apply when the local team is playing at home.

Maybe SDSU just hasn't been in the right situations.

I have no complaint with Google (well, I have several, but they're nit-picky and not relevant right now). I'm talking about something that would complement Google by taking an entirely different approach. Sometimes I want to search the entire internet; sometimes I only want to search the good parts.

Yeah, not quite the same thing, but that's cool. Thanks.

Serious question: Is there a search engine that does a decent job of filtering out this kind of SEO nonsense?

I have no complaints with your analysis, Brian, but if everyone understood simple concepts like base rates and expected value, who would buy the lottery tickets that fund our public schools?

There will always be pundits who build up an immunity to contradicting their own opinions, or convince themselves that their "gut instinct" is both important and infallible, but Aaron Schatz is not one of those pundits, nor are many others who have consistently argued for going for it when the numbers are favorable.