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In what has been perhaps the biggest surprise of NFL free agency this offseason, Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots became buyers. One year removed from Tom Brady’s departure, and his subsequent Super Bowl championship in Tampa Bay, New England engaged in the NFL equivalent of retail therapy and embarked on an historic shopping […]
On Sept. 29, 2018, Houston Astros outfielder Myles Straw dug in against Yefry Ramírez of the Baltimore Orioles. Straw ran the count full, then drove a ball the other way, over the left-center field fence. The delight of his teammates and announcers was beyond the normal glee after a major leaguer’s first home run. It […]
neil (Neil Paine, senior sportswriter): Hello, and welcome to our FiveThirtyEight hockey chat! The crew is back together, and I’m ready to drop the puck on a debate we had to blow the whistle on with minutes left on the clock last chat: Who’s the best player in the league? In the spirit of March […]
From the outside, March 16, 2012, was the maddest day in the history of the men’s NCAA Tournament. Before that tourney, only four No. 2 seeds had ever lost their opening-round tilts against No. 15 seeds. On that day, it happened not once, but twice. The first Goliath to fall was Missouri, a historically solid […]