As crazy as it sounds, the new NBA season has already arrived. The NBA is celebrating its 75th anniversary. Given that the 2020 NBA Finals concluded just one year and 8 days ago (October 11, 2020), we have now seen games played in three different NBA seasons all in just over a year. It feels… Read More 2022 NBA Tip-Off is Tonight! The Top-6 Storylines That Will Shape the Season
That is a real photo of a Purdue lineman chugging a beer that was thrown onto the field in the third quarter of the game. Was it a little early to start celebrating? Maybe, but Iowa, despite having one of the best secondaries in college football, had no answer for the Purdue passing game all… Read More College Football Week 7 Recap: IOWA Bounced By Beer-Drinking Boilermakers, Orgeron Officially Out, Tennessee Fans Fling Food on Field–PLUS: the Best QB in the Nation Nobody’s Talking About
I’ve done the same thing for college football that I do with NFL teams: average out their statistical rankings in a select number of categories I’ve deemed most important and used that to rank them 1-25. Only teams in the AP top 25 are eligible for consideration here, just for simplicity’s sake because it would… Read More College Football Statistical Team Rankings: Week 7
This is going to be a new weekly series here on the site, where I keep track of all the injury news from the day’s NFL action. Injuries are such a huge factor in football, and it’s important to keep track of them all because they really do make such a difference. Oftentimes we find… Read More NFL Week 6 Injury Report
Yesterday, while watching RedZone, as the Cowboys and Patriots became the second game to go to OT on the day, I remember Scotty Hanson saying something about all the overtime games we’ve seen thus far in the 2021 season. I don’t exactly remember what the stat he brought up was, but the point was that… Read More Why Are There So Many NFL Games Going to Overtime?
It’s hard to believe we’re already halfway through the 2021 college football season, but here we are. College football schedules are typically back-loaded, though, meaning the biggest and best games of the season are saved for the end. While we have already seen some heavyweight non-conference bouts, like Georgia-Clemson and Oregon-Ohio State, most of the… Read More College Football Mid-Season Report: The Stats That Will Decide “Who’s In”
Recently, the biggest story in the NBA has not been the preseason games, but Kyrie Irving’s refusal to get the vaccine. Now, apparently NBA players are not required to get the vaccine, but the issue is that Kyrie Irving plays in New York City, where the city government has made it mandatory for people to… Read More Kyrie Irving is Pulling an Antonio Brown
Now that 5 weeks are in the book and we have a decent sample size of statistics, we can start doing the statistical ranks. For those who don’t know, last year in week 12 I created my own team ranking system based off their statistical ranks (1-32, with 1 being the best and 32 being… Read More 2021 NFL Statistical Team Rankings: Week 5
We are now entering year 8 of the College Football playoff era. Starting 2014, college football adopted a 4-team playoff format, discarding the old BCS formula that simply pitted #1 vs. #2 in the National Championship Game. Although I’ve written at length about why I think the CFP has, seemingly paradoxically, decreased parity in college… Read More The 5 Greatest Playoff Games of the CFP Era
I’m going to preface this post by saying I was out of town for the weekend so I didn’t have my usual multi-TV Red Zone setup where I could keep tabs on every game. I was only able to watch a few games this weekend, so the games I was able to watch, I’ll go… Read More NFL Week 5 Reactions: Bills Blast Chiefs, Campbell Cries, Gruden’s Gone, Lamar Leads Comeback, Cardinals Stay Unbeaten
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