Welcome to the latest episode of Hot Takedown, FiveThirtyEight’s sports podcast. On this week’s show (July 19, 2016), we chat with FiveThirtyEight’s Christie Aschwanden about the Russian doping scandal and ask her whether it is a sign that the World Anti-Doping Agency is falling down on the job. We then talk to Rob Arthur about […]
Welcome to the latest episode of Hot Takedown, FiveThirtyEight’s sports podcast. On this week’s show (July 19, 2016), we chat with FiveThirtyEight’s Christie Aschwanden about the Russian doping scandal and ask her whether it is a sign that the World Anti-Doping Agency is falling down on the job. We then talk to Rob Arthur about […]
The Mets are going to the World Series, and second baseman Daniel Murphy has almost single-handedly propelled them there. Murphy alone has scored more than 25 percent of New York’s runs so far this postseason. His seven playoff dingers, accumulated in only nine games, are tied for second all-time in a single postseason — and […]
The Mets are going to the World Series, and second baseman Daniel Murphy has almost single-handedly propelled them there. Murphy alone has scored more than 25 percent of New York’s runs so far this postseason. His seven playoff dingers, accumulated in only nine games, are tied for second all-time in a single postseason — and […]
At the end of the 2014 season, the Houston Astros had improved from being a floating pile of garbage in the Pacific Ocean to a modest landfill in New Jersey. After losing more than 105 games in 2011, 2012 and 2013, a 70-92 finish in 2014 was both a welcome change for fans and a […]
