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Welcome to the latest episode of Hot Takedown, FiveThirtyEight’s sports podcast. On this week’s show (March 22, 2016), Sue Bird tells us how a lack of data affects women’s sports, we look at the first weekend of the NCAA men’s tournament and marvel at the madness of Texas A&M’s comeback win against Northern Iowa, and we discuss the sexist comments that rocked the tennis world. Plus, a significant digit on the number of extra point attempts NFL kickers missed in the 2015-16 season.
We also take a look at our bracket competition and see how our esteemed hosts are doing after the first round of the tournament.
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- Sue Bird says data can change the stories of women’s sports.
- Ian Levy on the website that went offline and took most of women’s college basketball analytics with it.
- FiveThirtyEight’s Allison McCann writes that there’s no rich data in women’s sports.
- Neil Paine on Texas A&M’s 1-in-3,000 comeback against Northern Iowa.
- Nate Silver puts Michigan State’s NCAA tournament loss in perspective.
- Equal prize money in tennis isn’t so equal after all, according to the BBC.
- The Guardian’s Kevin Mitchell on why Novak Djokovic is wrong about women’s tennis.
- Hot Takedown’s men’s bracket group in ESPN’s Tournament Challenge.
- Hot Takedown’s women’s bracket group in ESPN’s Tournament Challenge.
- Significant Digit. 71. That’s the number of extra point attempts NFL kickers missed in the 2015-16 season, eight more than the previous seven seasons combined.
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