Do Americans care more about their taxes, the 2nd amendment, jobs … or sports? The high point for Americans tuning into the Presidential Election was the first debate, and here is the breakdown of how that event compares to the
Oklahoma State’s Marcus Smart was the fastest riser in this week’s Top 25 college players. After ESPN reported NBA scouts wanted him despite his shooting woes this year, Smart responded by going 8 of 12 in huge wins against Iowa
The 49ers looked in control in the open field as Colin Kaepernick hit Michael Crabtree and he broke away from Corey Graham before 37-year-old Ray Lewis clung on for dear life at the Ravens 40. On the next play Frank
Jacoby Jones brought back memories of the era of the “Superbore” by running the 2nd half kickoff back 109 yards to give the Ravens a 28-6 lead. Only 7 of the first 31 Superbowls were within a touchdown, but fans
The NFL champion had smashed the AFL champion by an average score of 34-12 in their first two meetings, when pro football decided to steal the college bowl game set-up by calling the third meeting the “Superbowl.” If the Baltimore
Tom Crean will fly to the Superbowl tomorrow to see which of his brothers-in-law join him with a No. 1 team in their sports. Indiana beat Michigan, which will propel them back to No. 1 in Monday’s polls ahead of
California tax collectors could be the winners so far as Phil Mickelson is still a California resident as he is on pace for a 72-hole record in any PGA event. With a 12.3% state income tax rate that Mickelson threatened to flee,
If the battle for top player in the country tonight were a debate, then 6-foot Trey Burke might need a Michael Dukakis style podium to be on par with Indiana’s 7-footer Cody Zeller. However, our ratings on www.valueaddbasketball.com measure the impact
Watching the Miami Heat, the top team in the Eastern Conference, get drilled on the road again tonight is a reminder of why the Superbowl and March Madness are played in neutral locations. Only 20% of all NCAA teams have a
The Baltimore Ravens are only the 12th team out of 184 (7%) to make it from the wild card round to the Superbowl. Unfortunately for the 49ers, once they make it to the Superbowl they usually win. Since 12-team format
Former USC and 49ers football star Riki Ellison told me almost all NFL players grow up poor because, “it is so brutal that unless it is your only way out of poverty, it is not worth it.” While the average
It seems that your typical 5-star basketball prospect might be impressed by a coach telling them, “Oh and one more thing, my brother-in-law is the President of the United States of America!” But for whatever reason, Craig Robinson is about
The Beatles complained about 95% tax rate in England, French actor Gerard Depardieu gave up his citizenship for Russian citizenship after claiming he had “paid 85% taxes on his revenues this year [2012],” Lebron James gave up a couple of
Sheldon Williams 2006 season for Duke has reigned as the best defensive season by any player according to www.valueaddbasketball.com. Kentucky’s Nerlens Noel, who shattered the Kentucky record with 12 blocked shots to stun #16 Mississippi last night 87-74, may finally
Yesterday Breitbart released the Top 40 players, led by No. 1 Trey Burke. Today his Michigan team topped the Associated Press Top 25. Tonight we give you the top player for each team, including sharp-shooter Terry Rose (#20 in photo)
Exclusive Breitbart Value Add Ratings indicate Michigan’s Trey Burke in the best offensive player in at least eight years. He has played at that level in the best conference in the country, and on Sunday he went into Illinois and made sure
Pro Bowl players prepared by reading news speculating that the game might be cancelled if they did not play harder, and that the NFL might not be around in 30 years because the hitting is so hard it has led
In 2008, Novak Djokovic won the first Grand Slam tennis title in the history of Serbia or Yugoslavia before it, and when he kicked into high gear to blow Andy Murray away in the third and fourth sets this morning
Novak Djokovic had opportunities to break Andy Murray three times in the first set, but Murray survived to reach the tie-breaker at 6-6. Djokovic, the No. 1 player in the world, then double faulted to open the tie-breaker and Murray
When baseball was first introduced in the old Soviet Union, they rejected the pitching mound because putting one player higher than others wasn’t consistent with all being equal under Communism. They missed the true injustice – left-handers rigging every rule
When the Catholic 7 announced earlier this year they would leave the Big East the math was simple. DePaul brings the Chicago market, Providence, Seton Hall and St. John’s bring the New York market, and as the table below shows Georgetown,
John Isner’s 18-week run in the Top 10 gave hope for the first Men’s Grand Slam since Andy Roddick in 2003. Bernard Tomic’s shocking upset of top-ranked Novak Djokovic early this month gave host Australians hope of their first Slam
This offseason both Kentucky and UCLA claimed they had signed Shabazz Muhammad. Two days after President Obama was re-elected, ESPN questioned my Value Add projection that had Shabazz and UCLA would be one of the top few players and teams in the
As if Miami residents do not already enjoy life without a cloud in the sky, yesterday they witnessed the NCAA admitting to botching the investigation of the university, and both their pro and college basketball teams move into first place.
A year before PGA Golfer Ben Crenshaw appeared on the 2000 Sports Illustrated with his bikini-clad Julie, he became known in GOP circles for maxing out with a contribution to George W. Bush. The table below shows that since he
Let’s face it- most games go as predicted. You can usually look at the prediction at www.kenpom.com and the home team will win as expected unless the visiting team is ranked 40 spots above them. So we focus here on
For an explanation of the Value Add basketball rankings, you can always click on this post from the bottom of the www.valueaddbasketball.com database. I must thank Sports Illustrated, ESPN, NBC Sports and all of the other outlets who have covered Value Add.
Last night ESPN ran comments by two Baltimore Ravens players – traditional marriage advocate Matt Birk, and same-sex marriage advocate Brendon Ayanbadejo. The difference is that they quoted Birk on how great Ray Lewis is, and they featured Ayanbadejo for
It has been said that it takes three stars to win a championship, and so we run through the best three players on all 68 teams on pace to make the NCAA tournament. The entire database of thousands of college
Based on the NBA Efficiency Formula, Jimmy Butler (earning $1,066,920 this year) had twice as good a game as Kobe Bryant today, 15-7. Butler also ripped the ball away from Metta World Peace ($7,258,960) and hit a key jumper over
Is your college one of the 68 on pace to be invited to March Madness in eight weeks? Seven Big Ten teams are based on their projected RPIs, topping the Big East, Big 12 and Mountain West with six each.
Since announcing his retirement, Ray Lewis has made one of the greatest curtain calls in history by winning three straight games to help take the Ravens to the Superbowl. The fact that the last two games were against his toughest
In the political season Nate Silver benefitted from far superior internal polling data from the Obama campaign, and was much more accurate than our models built on what we later learned were polling data that did not even survey cell
Of the 10 latest sports scams, Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o’s fake girlfriend is by far the most interesting based on the old journalism question, “Did you hear that …?” However, when it comes to the actual impact on society,
Stat guru Ken Pomeroy faced criticism when he calculated Wisconsin was the 13th best team in the nation after a 6-4 start. As usual, Pomeroy appears to have been right as the Badgers dominated two of the Five Factors that determine basketball
West Virginia Mountaineer mascot Jonathan Kimble is known to basketball fans for firing gunpowder from his musket during West Virginia home games. But he is also known for continuing the Mountaineer mascot tradition of hunting with the same musket. While
Duke and Michigan are not No. 1 this week because they did the same thing that has happened to 94% of teams this year – they lost when visiting a Top 50 team. Louisville defended their new No. 1 ranking
Michigan’s rally from 21 points down came down to the best player this year, Trey Burke, matched up one-on-one with perhaps the best perimeter defender in the country in Aaron Craft. Craft, who led to the creation of the Craft-Turnover
Two days after Breitbart announced that Michigan’s Trey Burke was the top player in the nation, he can help his team replace Duke as the No. 1 team in the country. Burke replaced Duke’s Mason Plumlee for the top spot
Several weeks after Jim Harbaugh shocked the NFL by replacing a red-hot Alex Smith with Colin Kaepernick, the young quarterback set a record by running for 183 yards to crush the Green Bay Packers 45-31. On the same day, John
