By the time LeBron James finished his eighth NBA season in 2011, he’d amassed quite the résumé: two MVP awards, two NBA Finals runs, five first-team All-NBA nominations, a scoring crown, three All-Defensive Team nods, seven All-Star Game appearances and — why not? — a Rookie of the Year win, too. But despite all the […]
By the time LeBron James finished his eighth NBA season in 2011, he’d amassed quite the résumé: two MVP awards, two NBA Finals runs, five first-team All-NBA nominations, a scoring crown, three All-Defensive Team nods, seven All-Star Game appearances and — why not? — a Rookie of the Year win, too. But despite all the […]
Welcome to the latest episode of Hot Takedown, FiveThirtyEight’s sports podcast. On this week’s show (Feb. 23, 2016), we ask why Canadian hockey teams have failed to win the Stanley Cup for the past 20-odd years and whether that makes them unlucky or just bad, we make our first foray into the world of Nascar […]
Welcome to the latest episode of Hot Takedown, FiveThirtyEight’s sports podcast. On this week’s show (Feb. 23, 2016), we ask why Canadian hockey teams have failed to win the Stanley Cup for the past 20-odd years and whether that makes them unlucky or just bad, we make our first foray into the world of Nascar […]
Welcome to the latest episode of Hot Takedown, FiveThirtyEight’s sports podcast. On this week’s show (Feb. 23, 2016), we ask why Canadian hockey teams have failed to win the Stanley Cup for the past 20-odd years and whether that makes them unlucky or just bad, we make our first foray into the world of Nascar […]