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Are Bad NFL Defenses Breaking Win Probability Models?

sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): Week 7 of the NFL season gave us a LOT to unpack: The Atlanta Falcons lost yet another game they seemed to have sewn up, while the Dallas Cowboys lost another quarterback during a truly dreadful defeat at the hands of the Washington Football Team. And who could forget the […]

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Are States With Lower Income Tax Rates Better At Winning Championships?

When it became clear that the most decorated quarterback in NFL history was hitting the open market, fans of many long-suffering NFL teams allowed themselves to imagine Tom Brady leading their squad to his seventh Super Bowl championship. Bill Schuette, the former attorney general of Michigan, was one of those fans. He penned a column […]

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Brady With Gronk Is The Best Brady

Rob Gronkowski’s return to pro football has been speculated about since just about the moment he abruptly retired last March, and this week the erstwhile wrestling champion actually did it. On Tuesday, Gronk unretired and was dealt from the New England Patriots to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (along with a seventh-round draft choice) for a […]

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