By Kurt Bullard In the early stages of the intra-division battle between Chicago and Green Bay last weekend, Aaron Rodgers was having his way with the Bears’ defense. The former Cal Bear led two straight touchdown drives to...
By Henry Johnson The task of predicting fantasy football kickers’ performance has, on multiple occasions and by multiple analysts, been deemed a fool’s errand. Some kickers will do well and others will do poorly—anything...
By Julian Ryan The current San Antonio Spurs team, despite winning the NBA Finals in a dominant fashion, are getting some flak from the internet community for being too old and past their prime. Even the statistical community is...
By Kurt Bullard In baseball, it is taken as a given that players who hit for power tend to strike out at a higher rate than those who make their living off simply reaching base. A common metric used in portraying this phenomenon...
By Steven Rachesky In the first round of the 2014 British Open, 15 players out of the 18 total that shot 69 or better had teed off during the morning slots. During the afternoon, Royal Liverpool GC played much harder with...
By Kurt Bullard Football fans – and sports fans in general – abhor the fact that mistakes made by the referees at the end of games can influence the result of the contest. Nowhere was this seemingly more apparent than in this...
By Harrison Chase In the summer of 2012, the World Champion Miami Heat convinced Ray Allen, the all-time league leader in 3-pointers made and one of the best shooters in the league, to leave Boston for deal worth roughly three...
By Barrett Hansen The existence of momentum in the NFL has been debated extensively over the past half decade, with the majority of the analytics world siding against it. Grantland (ESPN) writer Bill Barnwell has become the...
By Julian Ryan The monster three-team trade (Philadelphia snagging picks and tanking…again) centered around Kevin Love and Andrew Wiggins has sparked much of the NBA chatter this past summer. Central to the debate is how many...
By Daniel Silberwasser Jose Mourinho, one of the most successful soccer managers of all time, once asked: “How many countries can you think of where a corner kick is treated with the same applause as a goal?” The self...