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Yeah but that's dumb: Chris Paul is good because he makes guys like Blake Griffin better. If you're a point guard and all your teammates struggle on offense, you're a shitty point guard. Read more

I feel like I've heard plenty of criticism, especially after the Clipper lost to Memphis last year. Expectations were lower in New Orleans. Read more

I don't think so. Bo Jackson ran a 4.12 40-yard, which translates to 29.1 feet per second, which would get him to first in 3.09 seconds (a little slower probably, because the part of the 40 we're cutting out is at top speed). That's without swinging a bat or anything, so I don't think Mantle could have pulled a 3.1 in Read more

I'm not too worried about the publicity; I imagine that 90% of their traffic is generated by kids trying to find porn for the first time. Read more

Not so much anymore. 54,000 potato acres in Maine in 2012-13 (84 square miles), down from close to a quarter million in the 1950s (390 square miles). Aroostook county is 6,800 square miles. Read more

It might not be federal land but it's not exactly pure forest either. That territory used to be mostly logging company property, although recently large chunks have been bought by conservation land trusts. Now that so many paper mills have moved out of the state, some have proposed that the area should become Read more

Well, a lot of it is! Here's a Google Map screengrab covering about 120,000 square miles along the Northern Nevada border:

I'm rolling my eyes real hard at you. The two terms are used interchangeably, even among hardcore stats people. Read more

We seem to be picking up some commenters who've read Outliers but haven't read my post. The age cutoff thing is in there! Read more