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To win and keep their jobs, GMs and NFL Coaches need two things; a Defense that can stop opponents and a Quarterback with a high Total QBR. As great a person and Christian witness as Tim Tebow is, the fact

Here are the top 16 All-Conference basketball teams. The 160 players on this list have beaten up on other conferences to push their conference’s ranking as high as possible so that as many teams as possible make the NCAA tournament

While 6-foot-11, 265 pound Dwight Howard was barely able to stay above 50 percent from the line before his injury, two players are proving it is possible for a very large man to hit from 15 feet. Howard (167-329 for

Last week I put myself on the line prior to the Redskins playoff game by stating bluntly that the Seattle Seahawks were the best team in the NFL the second half of the year. After the Seahawks backed up that statement

Despite playing almost all guards last year, Missouri was a No. 2 seed in the NCAA tournament. Then three things happened that give Missouri a chance to take a conference title this year.  First, 6-foot-8 Laurence Bowers came back from

The Nationals opted to sit Stephen Strasburg and watched a 6-0 lead slip away in the decisive game of the playoffs, and the Redskins chose to play Robert Griffin III and may find out Wednesday if the injury he sustained

After decimating Notre Dame 42-21 to win back-to-back national championships on Monday, Alabama finished atop the final Associated Press poll for the ninth time, which is a new record. Alabama was a unanimous No.1.  Prior to the game analytics showed

Two of Alabama’s opponents crushed two of Notre Dame’s opponents in Bowl games last week, and 10-point underdogs like Notre Dame have won only 23% of the time since 1999. However, with Massey Ratings predicting that Notre Dame’s defense could

The last Cincinnati Bengals coach to win a playoff game was then quickly replaced for not allowing women reporters to go in a locker room of naked men.  Two decades later, I told that coach he should run for governor

The goal is for the NFL’s best four teams to enjoy a bye this weekend. However, an analysis of Jeff Sagarin’s ratings over the 2nd half of the season indicates Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III will have to work his

Add Oklahoma to the teams that do not believe Johnny Manziel when he says he probably runs a 4.5 or 4.6 40-yard dash. He may join Robert Griffin III and Michael Vick as the only quarterbacks to break the list

After 14-point underdog Louisville defeated SEC powerhouse Florida in Wednesday’s Sugar Bowl, the SEC’s supremacy was questioned. Earlier in the bowl season, Mississippi State lost by 14, LSU was upset and then Florida was stunned in the biggest upset in

Analytics are the quest for truth.  When a basketball player scores 22 points and a team wins by 12, some fans will make silly assertions like, “they would have lost by 10 if he weren’t there.”  In fact, if “he

As we close the calendar year, the following is our ranking of the Top 100 college sports programs.  We rated only team sports as opposed to individual sports such as golf, tennis and gymnastics.  Ratings by statistician Kenneth Massey (www.masseyratings.com)

Actual 2011 BE before Lville, ND, WV, Rutg, Pitt & Syr left Proposed BE adding Houston, SMU, UCF, Memphis, Temple & Tulane C7 plus Xavier, Butler & VCU (best possible conference) C7 + St.L, Dayton, Xavier (true All-Catholic) Lines filled

The “Catholic 7” basketball schools made sports news this week by deciding to break away from the Big East to form a new league that would include an eighth Catholic school (Xavier) and recent Final Four teams VCU and Butler. 

A review of the turnout model first presented prior to last week’s election still shows the road map for victory in 2016 based on five factors. First let’s look at the model, where 121 boxes represented 242 million American adults.

Real Clear Politics rephrases the title of Paul Krugman’s latest New York Times piece as “You’re Stupid If You Think It’s Close.” In it, Krugman writes, “Nate Silver (who has lately attracted a remarkable amount of hate – welcome to my

TV viewers watching news of the approach of Sandy last week may not have thought much of President Obama’s urgent appeal to supporters to vote early. While no one who has worked turnout operations and statistic models ever accepted Nate

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Former “Sons of Anarchy” actor Johnny Lewis was found dead on Wednesday in a Los Angeles neighborhood where he was suspected of killing an 81-year-old woman whom he may have been renting a room from, police

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s powerful Central Military Commission has approved the formal establishment of a military garrison for the disputed South China Sea, state media said on Sunday, in a move which could further boost tensions in already fractious region.