Tiger Woods will have the finest doctors and rehab team in the world. He will still have less disc material in his back than before he got the surgery, because that's what the surgery does. Read more

I also got this surgery (inpatient, not outpatient). The doctors made sure to stress that my otherwise healthy discs would now be taking on more compression "load", so my risk of herniating a different disc was definitely bumped up a notch. Read more

They look like soldiers to us. Here's the full pic:

This is true, and Neil Paine also found that top receivers that stayed on the same team did tend to drop off (by 2.8 AV on average, compared to 4.4 AV for top receivers that changed teams.) Whether or not a player changes teams, it's always useful to look at player performance in the context of team performance. Read more

I see what you're getting at, and sure, Medcalf isn't a Bayless or a Bilas. He's still a guy who's paid to write articles about college basketball for ESPN, and many, many people read those articles during March Madness (4,000 Facebook likes and 1,000+ comments on "10 Bold Predictions"; feel free to compare that to… Read more

Don't sell yourself short Myron! Lots of people know you exist. Read more

Oakland A's fans do not represent the plurality of baseball fans (on Facebook) in any counties. Obviously, Oakland A's fans exist. Read more

The colors are clearly messed up, but I think those are Red Sox counties (based on the WSJ article). Read more

UPDATE: CLASSICAL IS UP. GO LOOK AT BASEBALL CARDS. Read more

Whelp, The Classical is down. Read more

Er, not that I can figure out. Read more

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Like kennedky said, 5-6 wins is huge. Miguel Cabrera—the best hitter in baseball—made an out in 56 percent of his at-bats last year. Daniel Nava made an out 62 percent of the time, and the average MLBer made an out 68 percent of the time. The impact that a single hitter tends to make on a baseball game is limited,… Read more

If you've ever done a NFL picks pool that lets you choose a "lock of the week," and then you get extra points if your lock is correct, that's a very simple version of the same basic idea. Read more

Happy to! Let's say "Entry A" estimated that Wisconsin had a 90 percent chance of beating Baylor, and the other entries said that Wisconsin had an 80 percent chance. Given that Wisconsin beat Baylor, Entry A would get more credit/points for their prediction compared to the others. Read more

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New England states like Boston pro teams, but make no mistake: Nobody in Maine gives a shit about, say, Boston College. Read more