The College Football Playoff era began with the 2014 season. For the first decade, four teams were selected to the Playoff field, with two semifinal games and a national championship game. Starting in the 2024-25 season, here's the new, expanded format to know: 12 teams will be selected...
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 ...
This impact of social media on sports marketing goes far beyond baseball. A record-setting5 billion peopleengaged with the2022 World Cupon social, and the 2024 Summer Games saw 12 billion engagements. The channel turns die-hard fans into armchair sports analysts while introducing the game day exp...
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...
for covering a far greater number of games, the NFL rakes in by far the most annual revenue—more than $18 billion. Major League Baseball is next, north of $11 billion, while the NBA is close behind at about $10 billion in annual revenue. The NHL takes in about $6.8 billion annually...
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?
If you set the number of scheduled innings for your games to a value other than 9, then the ERA calculation will be based on that number of innings. Lets take an example where a league bases ERA on 7 innings. When creating a new game, tap the Options row and in the Game Options sc...
Maybe you can’t. Maybe, in that situation, you just have to rely on feel. And currently, the feeling is this: If the Mariners don’t make the playoffs, the die-hards will be clamoring for changes with a fervor we haven’t...
Jackie Robinson is a prominent example of someone who overcame such challenges; he was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. Despite enduring racial taunts from both players and fans, Robinson chose not to react aggressively, understanding that any retaliati...
of this era. Su isalso Huang’s first cousin once removed. Huang told me that he didn’t know Su growing up; he met her only after she was named C.E.O. “She’s terrific,” he said. “We’re not very competitive.” (Nvidia employees can recite the relative market share of ...