1 teams at the end of the season was in 2003, during the BCS era. That year, LSU beat Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl to win the BCS National Championship and thus the ESPN/Coaches Poll No. 1 ranking. The AP, however, ranked Southern California No. 1 after the Trojans defeated...
If the game is still tied after an overtime period, there will be another overtime period. In 2021, the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved a change to overtime rules. Teams will be required to run a 2-point conversion play after a touchdown when a game reaches a second over...
Social media has reshaped the way teams, athletes and brands engage with fans. What used to be a one-way broadcast is now a conversation with the masses. To succeed, teams first need to keep up—which is easier said than done. “While there is fan focus on the games themselves, sports...
Update: And the threat dies with a strikeout to end the inning. M's head to the plate now. The crowd is trying to will a rally out of the hometown nine. Update: The Red Sox challenged a call at first and it was overturn...
The average exit velocity on barrels this season has been 105.1 mph, which is a marked increase over the past few seasons and the highest mark of the Statcast era. In a different way, physics-savvy Baseball Prospectus author Rob Arthurdelved into this weird dynamic. H...
instances in which an official has been terminated midseason. In 2018, Hugo Cruz was fired after missing an obvious false start call. The NFL cited an accumulation of errors, and it resulted in the first midseason firing of an official in the Super Bowl era. Midseason terminations are rare...
The Cincinnati Bengals must realize life is good, but it can be better A young star quarterback and an improving image around the league, what’s not to like for Cincinnati right now, considering how much of a laughingstock the organization had become in the pre-Burrow era?
The metric 𝜂𝑒𝑓𝑓/𝑁ηeff/N is composed by the total sample N and the effective sample size 𝜂𝑒𝑓𝑓ηeff, in which the latter is calculated as: 𝜂𝑒𝑓𝑓=𝑛1+∑∞𝑘=1𝜌𝑘(𝜃),ηeff=n1+∑k=1∞ρk(θ), (11) with n being the total sample size...
when he settled in to watch an NBA game for which he believed he'd just put in the fix. It was January 2007. A month or so back, not long before Christmas, he'd done something audacious: He'd sat down and cut a deal with an NBA referee. Now he feared the scheme had become to...
Pictorial evidence that curling is a medieval sport can be found in the works of the Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel. “Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap” and “The Hunters in the Snow” depict peasants involved in an action that resembles curling over a frozen body of water, such as a...