By Harrison Chase and Henry Johnson With SummerSlam 2015 around the corner, itâs worth stating the obvious:Â WWE is complicated. Professional wrestling is stuffed with backstories, rivalries, and plot twists so numerous that...
By Kurt Bullard If youâve seen or read any coverage on the Tennessee Titans this preseason, youâre familiar with the leading story that Marcus Mariota has yet to throw an interception in his 186 attempts 7-on-7 drills. Any...
By Harrison Chase and Kurt Bullard Last year, we wrote various posts on creating a model to predict which NFL coaches would be fired at the end of the season. So, with nothing to do but wait for the regular season to begin, we...
By Austin Tymins The picturesque Whistling Straits, a course not unfamiliar with hosting major tournaments, will host this weekâs PGA Championship. And like nearly all professional events, some skill sets will be more suitable...
By Adam Gilfix @AdamGilfix JIM MCISAAC/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA The New York Yankees have seen a 5.5-game lead over the Toronto Blue Jays collapse to 0.5 games from one Tuesday to the next by dropping five of six.  This...
By Daniel Silberwasser The term âformâ is often used in soccer to refer to either a player or a teamâs recent performance. A key aspect to the idea of form is that form influences future success. For example, one might say...
By Brendan Kent A while back, I wrote a piece on travel distance in Major League Soccer. It got me thinking about which aspects of travel affect a teamâs performance. It would seem that as a trip progresses, travel might take...
By Harrison Chase Italian soccer is infamously riddled with corruption, with multiple scandals over the past decade. Although various forms of match fixing have occurred, the match fixing  described in Joe...
By Daniel Silberwasser With legal sports betting becoming a possibility in the U.S., it might be in our financial interest to investigate the track records of various U.K. soccer bookmakers. Using bookmaker data on the English...
By Daniel Silberwasser Home field advantage has become a crucial element of professional soccer. The final matches of major tournaments such as the UEFA Champions League are played in predetermined third party stadiums, and...