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Beside The Points For Thursday, May 3, 2018

Things That Caught My Eye Tanks for playing According to FiveThirtyEight’s Elo projections, there are eight teams in the MLB on track to lose 90 games, four of whom are on track to lose in the range of about 100 games. That is the most potential 90-game losers at this point in the season since […]

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Beside The Points For Monday, April 30, 2018

Things That Caught My Eye Playoff LeBron is here LeBron James posted 45 points in Sunday’s win over the Indiana Pacers, with a further 9 rebounds and 7 assists. The Cavaliers will advance to face the Toronto Raptors, so if LeBron hopes to keep up his otherworldly performance now would be the time to do […]

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Beside The Points For Thursday, April 26, 2018

Things That Caught My Eye Draft Day! It’s the first day of the NFL draft, meaning that enormous financial concerns are about to publicly gamble in prime time television, which is always pretty cool. Penn State’s Saquon Barkley is the top running back prospect in this year’s draft and will likely go very early in […]

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Beside The Points For Monday, April 23, 2018

Things That Caught My Eye Seattle to earn more frequent flyer miles The Seattle Seahawks, by virtue of playing in a city that is very far away from other cities that host NFL teams, spend a lot of time on planes. Once every four years, they get a reprieve and get to play in Oakland, […]

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Beside The Points For Monday, April 23, 2018

Things That Caught My Eye Seattle to earn more frequent flyer miles The Seattle Seahawks, by virtue of playing in a city that is very far away from other cities that host NFL teams, spend a lot of time on planes. Once every four years, they get a reprieve and get to play in Oakland, […]

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