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"There's No Tickling in Football!": Defensive Strategies Discovered While Watching a Three-Year-Old
Do the rules of college football permit tickling while tackling? This question occurred to me this morning, while I was watching my three-year-old daughter, Elizabeth. She and I were playing a game in which she would run to the door and open it, I would respond with comic exaggerated consternation...
Arsenal link roundup for Thursday, November 11, with a dash of opinion
So Arsenal sit in third, a point behind Manchester United and five behind Chelsea, after yesterday's win at Wolverhampton. Goodison Park and Everton loom on the near horizon in three days, another chance to steer the good ship November in the right direction. After yesterday's match and all the...
Assuming Assists are Bad Makes an Ass of U and Me
When you go through and look at defensive stats, there are all kinds of interesting things to look at that tell a defensive story. However, trying to understand that defensive story can be like trying to read it in Mandarin Chinese. Is a high number of passes defensed good or bad? If it's high,...
Remembering Fiesta Bowl 1996
This weekend I dug out the 1996 Fiesta Bowl game and got that digitized as well. In December 1995, we ended up getting our ticket request denied, so on Christmas Night, we were busy discussing what our plans for watching the game were going to be, when suddenly the story broke that there they had...
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