Throughout NFL history, several teams have kicked seven field goals in a game, and all those teams won. Except for the Chiefs, who just kept on kicking Sunday, and lost by 15. That is a fantastic way to lose.
Some people told me they didn't like the three-pointer. So I went back and re-scored the entire NBA 2015-16 season as though three-pointers didn't exist. Along the way we learned a lot of things, none of which are at all important.
The only power rankings to measure pure mascot power.
Jeff Francoeur's start was historically great, and the rest of his career has been historically not. but through it all, he remains. he is my favorite baseball player.
the 2016 Browns are facing a problem with their depth chart that no NFL team has ever had to deal with. their wide receiver can also play quarterback. that only makes things more complicated.
Scorigami is the art of achieving a final score in an NFL game that has never happened before. It is a term made up by Jon Bois, a concept perfected by Pete Carroll, and a goal that may not be completed before the heat death of the universe.
In the boldest Chart Party simulation yet, we’re sending Barry Bonds back in time to re-live every plate appearance of his historic 2004 season without a baseball bat. The only thing crazier than this experiment is the way it turned out.
You're a pitcher. You're pitching against someone who has never batted before, and isn't even trying to swing. All you have to do is throw three strikes over the plate. Don't screw this up. You're going to screw this up.
Some NFL teams are kind of predictable. Others win and lose in ways that defy explanation. This is a scroll through nearly a thousand years of combined NFL history.
The NFL kickoff is the stupidest play in sports. It's boring, bad, dangerous, and pointless, and we've got to get rid of it.
A common argument we hear these days is that Colin Kaepernick isn't good enough to play in the NFL. This is absolutely not true.
We finally visit the Browns, who are doomed to toil in football agony until the end of time.
The college basketball postseason is based on two lies. The first is that anyone can win a championship. Admittedly, that's more of a fib - mathematically true, but not the way reality actually shakes out. The second is more surprising: your seed does not determine how easy your road through the tournament will be. I know! It sounds absurd! But Jon explains it and it makes sense! Just trust me for once!
To punt is to give up, and in the 21st century, NFL teams have given up nearly 50,000 times. Most of those punts were reasonable decisions. But a few were so cowardly, and in such defiance of all reason, that they must not be forgotten. It’s our mission to find them.
More than 10,000 people named Bob have entered the world of sports. Today, there are only nine. Bobs are special people, and in losing them to retirement, we stand to lose more than we might imagine.
For more than a century, many of our greatest sports heroes were named Bob. It seemed as though that would never change. Why would it? Why did it? Where did they go?