Category: Sports

I finally saw The Dark Knight Rises last night, and was a bit disappointed by a major plot hole any hardcore sports fan would notice. Nevermind that Pittsburgh’s Heinz Field isn’t anywhere close to Gotham City, what I’m talking about is the NFL Blackout Rule. The NFL Blackout rule states

The Mariners return home tomorrow after a pretty good road trip – going 5-4 and putting up a bunch of runs. I wondered, why can’t the Mariners do that at home? Largest Home-Road BA split differentials in baseball I looked at the home-road batting average splits for MLB teams to

Albert Pujols finally hit his first home run as an LA Angel on May 6th, the 29th game of the year for the team. He’s currently on pace to hit 6 home runs. I wondered, did switching leagues have anything to do with the drought? Pujols has hit fewer HRs

The Final Four is one of my favorite sporting events. Two amazing games with everything on the line. There’s nothing like it in sports. Interestingly, both games feature rematches from earlier in the season. With the Final Four being played in New Orleans today, I wondered who is more critical

NCAA Football fans were up in arms about Alabama making it to the BCS title game when they didn’t win their own conference championship. I wondered, is winning a conference championship a leading indicator of winning the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament? Methodology I looked at the 64+ tournament era (since

Each team is assigned 7 picks in each NFL draft, but somehow the Oakland Raiders are entering the 2012 draft with only 2 picks – a 5th round and 6th round selection. How did they do it? Basically, they traded their picks for Quarterbacks Here’s a chart of where their

One of my favorite games during the Super Bowl is the 100-square box game. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, here’s an example: The premise is simple: a square with 100 boxes is drawn, and random numbers from 0-9 are filled in across and down. Everyone pitches in

As you may know, I posted my strategy for picking College Football Bowl winners. I broke them down into several categories: Home Teams Playing Absent Coaches Playing Little Sisters of the Poor Better Records Last year Playing teams I watched Lay Eggs throughout the year Toss Ups Turns out one