Fair enough! Read more

I grew up in New England, and, as a rule, New England states don't give a shit about each other's college teams. New England states are kind of pissy with each other in general. Read more

America hates Duke so much that they didn't even include them on this map of teams that made the Sweet Sixteen in 2014. Read more

I put the wrong teams in the parentheticals. Fixed! Read more

That's dawning on me, yes. Read more

This point seems obvious to me, but I'm always surprised by how quickly people abandon it once there's a marquee upset. When we talk about playoff success in the NBA (which has a very different playoff structure, but still), it's generally accepted that you need to have at least one or two guys at the very top level. Read more

Two big reasons: Read more

It looks like some folks at Sports Insights have been working on something very similar over the last couple of days, which is also worth a read. One neat kink that they caught: BYU players—thanks to Mormon mission—are often older than their class year would typically imply. It doesn't matter so much for our point… Read more

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Sounds right to me! Read more

That's amazing. Read more

Backward K means struck out looking. As far as I know, people don't do anything special to avoid spelling out "KKK" for those signs, but if one of the first three is looking then problem solved! Read more

Starts in Philly—which is the city that you really see get hit by a "disaster"—and ends at the Monroeville Mall outside of Pittsburgh, which is more of a survival/horror thing. Maybe a fine point; Dawn of the Dead could probably go either way, Read more

Well, I stand corrected then. Sorry True Detective's not on there. Read more

I'm sure he's not manually inputting, but he's probably not porting fresh data over from IMDB every week. It's not like he's getting paid for this, as far as I can tell. Read more

I completely agree. I think moving from user reviews towards critic reviews would give more credit to structurally distinctive episodes like this (A.V. Club loved it). I bet if you asked Breaking Bad fans today many would say that "The Fly" was great, but I can imagine a lot of (impatient) people were annoyed when it… Read more

I mean, that season ended twelve days ago. I don't know how often he updates his database. Read more

Feel free to click the links provided. Pennsylvania's "commonwealth" universities (Penn State, Pitt, Temple, and Lincoln) aren't private, but they're not quite "public" in the same way that other state universities are public. The technical term is "state-related"; they still receiving state funding—although less than… Read more

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Because Atlanta gets burned.