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
For the first time in the history of the NFL or AFL, a football game was played today that was tied after five consecutive quarters. The Ravens and Broncos were tied 14-14 after one quarter, 21-21 after the second, 28-28
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
Shooting sports are hardly limited to taking a foursome to the local shooting range to take on another team on a Saturday, but a look at the number of shooting ranges per capita in each state probably gives indication that
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
This season Mike Trout became the only the second player since 1890 to be worth more than 10 additional wins to his team as a 20-year-old, and today the oldest player to ever accomplish that feat was soundly rejected for
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
The saying, “behind every great man is a great woman,” was common when women had many fewer professional opportunities than men. From that perspective, one cannot ignore the greatness of Henriette “Etty” Allen as a force behind three great men.
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
