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When Does It Make Sense To Trade Mike Trout?

Welcome to the latest episode of Hot Takedown, our podcast where the hot sports takes of the week meet the numbers that prove them right or tear them down. On this week’s show (Feb. 16, 2016), we take a look at parity in men’s college basketball and the lack thereof on the women’s side, we […]

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When Does It Make Sense To Trade Mike Trout?

Welcome to the latest episode of Hot Takedown, our podcast where the hot sports takes of the week meet the numbers that prove them right or tear them down. On this week’s show (Feb. 16, 2016), we take a look at parity in men’s college basketball and the lack thereof on the women’s side, we […]

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How FiveThirtyEight’s NCAA Tournament Forecasts Did

We love making predictions at FiveThirtyEight, but we know that they’d be meaningless if we didn’t check to see how accurate they turned out to be. Over the past month, we forecast every NCAA college basketball game for the women’s and men’s tournaments, updating our numbers almost a hundred times as 132 teams were pared […]

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How FiveThirtyEight’s NCAA Tournament Forecasts Did

We love making predictions at FiveThirtyEight, but we know that they’d be meaningless if we didn’t check to see how accurate they turned out to be. Over the past month, we forecast every NCAA college basketball game for the women’s and men’s tournaments, updating our numbers almost a hundred times as 132 teams were pared […]

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Hot Takedown: Emergency Pod! UConn Wins Its Third Straight Championship

Here’s an emergency edition of our sports podcast Hot Takedown, breaking down UConn’s third consecutive national women’s college basketball championship. Chadwick Matlin, Kate Fagan, and Allison McCann discuss the program’s dominance, the incessant comparisons between coach Geno Auriemma and John Wooden, and whether anyone will ever catch the Huskies. Stream the episode by clicking play […]

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