THE BABY THAT WON THE RICE RACE IS MY NIECE Read more

Tex would have destroyed Holster Read more

Jason Whitlock once stole a rib right off my plate at a BBQ restaurant. Read more

He would also throw crumpled up money at you if you asked him to pay for the lunch he ordered. Read more

This research was actually by Benn Stancil at Mode Analytics, not me, but he made all the data available here: https://github.com/mode/blog/blob… Read more

Remarkably, it's spelled wrong throughout NYC's own dog registration database! Read more

Fair. I updated the chart/text a bit. Read more

I sort of disagree. If you want to show just the height/weight trend then line charts are the way to go (like on these NFL charts), but "scatterplot gifs" have two nice advantages: Read more

Shoot me an email at [email protected] Read more

It was created by me, the author whose byline appears at the top of the article. Read more

Can't read too much into that though, since the difference between below and above average is a single goal. Read more

I'm sure they're out there. You can find plenty of basketball purists who think the league was better in the late 90s, when scoring was as low as it had been since the 50s. Read more

Conscious design choice! (bows) Read more

I'll stand by (most of) my charts. Which ones bugged you? Read more

Of course they like soccer. I was more surprised because Southeast Asia doesn't have any teams in the World Cup, and really has never had teams in the World Cup (save Indonesia in 1938, before it was independent). Read more

Not relevant here at all, as CBS isn't sampling number one picks from a larger, unknown population of number one picks (they have them all). The conclusion is "Duke has had the most number one picks," which is unequivocally true, with zero margin of error. Read more

Debunked, unfortunately. Or at least questioned: http://www.popsci.com/science/articl… Read more

Tie, both 100% useless Read more

Good showing so far. Honduras needs a miracle though, and they have four MLS players. Read more

Covered in a different thread. Read more