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🏁 2025 NASCAR Cup Series Driver Rankings 🚗
Tracking the top drivers in the sport, all season long.
Feb 17
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📈2024 NFL Elo Ratings and Projections🏈
Power ratings, rankings and forecasts for every NFL team this season.
Feb 10
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Fans Don’t Want Money to Determine Sports Outcomes — But They Don’t Want Chance To, Either
Further meditations on big baseball spending.
Jan 29
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Fans Don’t Want Money to Determine Sports Outcomes — But They Don’t Want Chance To, Either
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Can the Lions Keep Detroit’s Sports Renaissance Flourishing?
The city has already turned a lot of things around from just a few years ago.
Jan 17
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Many of the NBA’s Problems Are Structural to Basketball
The season feels too long because, statistically, it contains far too many meaningless games — and that comes with plenty of other side-effects.
Jan 2
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When Did “The Nerds” Start Ruining Each Sport?
Let's look at the development of certain trends that are allegedly making sports unwatchable.
Dec 20, 2024
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Sterling Sharpe Belongs in Canton
The former Green Bay Packers great — and current Hall of Fame finalist — is one of the most underrated receivers in NFL history.
Dec 5, 2024
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Football Bytes: The Detroit Lions Are on the Hunt for History
Plus, the most important games left in the 2024 regular season.
Nov 20, 2024
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Football Bytes: Can the Chiefs Keep Winning Ugly?
Plus, the Falcons are losing the kicking battle by a historic margin.
Nov 13, 2024
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2024 NASCAR Cup Series Playoff Odds: Racing to the Finish Line
What to watch for in Sunday's Cup Series Championship race at Phoenix.
Nov 6, 2024
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The Modern L.A. Dodgers Are Officially No Longer Playoff Underachievers
With a title this season, they’ve now won more World Series than they "should have" since 2013.
Nov 1, 2024
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The Modern L.A. Dodgers Are Officially No Longer Playoff Underachievers
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2024 NASCAR Cup Series Playoff Odds: Reddick Clutch; Larson On The Brink
After one of the greatest races in NASCAR history, what do the Cup Series playoffs have in store next at Martinsville?
Oct 30, 2024
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2024 NASCAR Cup Series Playoff Odds: Reddick Clutch; Larson On The Brink
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