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Introducing Hot Takedown, FiveThirtyEight’s First Podcast

I’m thrilled to introduce FiveThirtyEight’s first podcast, our weekly sports show Hot Takedown. A brief preview is available on iTunes now (listen below), and our first full episode will drop Tuesday evening and every Tuesday thereafter.   Hot takes are the predominant currency of sports talk these days. Sometimes they are grounded in fact; often […]

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Listen To How Walt Hickey And Neil Paine Tried To Break Madden

Elsewhere on FiveThirtyEight, Walt Hickey and Neil Paine have a two-part opus describing how EA Sports makes the wildly popular Madden video game. Go read it if you haven’t. The story doesn’t end there. Listen to the two talk with podcast producer/host Jody Avirgan about how the piece came together, what they learned about Madden […]

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Listen To How Walt Hickey And Neil Paine Tried To Break Madden

Elsewhere on FiveThirtyEight, Walt Hickey and Neil Paine have a two-part opus describing how EA Sports makes the wildly popular Madden video game. Go read it if you haven’t. The story doesn’t end there. Listen to the two talk with podcast producer/host Jody Avirgan about how the piece came together, what they learned about Madden […]

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