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- It was a rough day for the Washington Commanders. So bad I think it’s worth their PR team’s effort to consider a full rebrand including name change despite having never played a down as their …Read More »
- Ian Rapoport dropped the following tweet this afternoon and after reading the fine print I spent an uncomfortable amount of time verifying if this was actually from a parody account. Contracts are about give-and-take. One …Read More »
- Baseball is just random. Most people understand this, but the Boston Red Sox complete bed shitting vs the Toronto Blue Jays on July 22 led me to discover a nice little gem to show just …Read More »
- Independence Day is the time to reflect on the things that make America great. And there’s nothing more American than sports and giving the middle finger. Want proof? Pictured below is Charles Radbourn of the …Read More »
- Everyone goes through a patch in their life when they date a crazy person after a string of steady borings with ambition, direction, and thought-out plans for their lives. That’s about what happened to the …Read More »
- You probably weren’t expecting a “John Calipari needs a contract extension” take after just two years into his ten-year deal, but I feel a certain duty to save Kentucky Nation from themselves as a sizable …Read More »
- Welcome to the “Actually, Your NFL Team’s New QB is Amazing” segment. Earlier editions can be read here: Drew Lock Carson Wentz There’s no other way to describe what happened to newly acquired Pittsburgh Steelers …Read More »
- Welcome to a new segment! Give me a follow on Twitter because if you’re a fan of team who swung and missed in the QB acquisition department this offseason, I’ll be releasing statistical breakdowns proving …Read More »
- Ever feel like you can’t relate when reading sports articles touting some fantastic feat by Patrick Mahomes or Stephon Curry? Are you sitting in a cubicle right now reading this article to delay a work …Read More »
- T he 2022 NCAA tournament may have just started but after this incredible opening weekend I couldn’t help but lean right into awards season and dish out the inaugural March Maddies™ awards. We’re in the eye …Read More »
- Everyone in DC needs to calm down. I know you all feel like you just hit the double zero on the free agency QB roulette board but what if Carson Wentz is actually good? No …Read More »
- N ow that the season is over and everyone in Buffalo has regained the mental fortitude to move on with life and start anew I thought “hey, actually let’s reopen that wound and find SOMETHING Josh …Read More »
- Look, Bengals fans are hurting. They haven’t made a Super Bowl since 1988 and it’s understandable that they are going to lash out with #rigged after losing Super Bowl LVI. But that doesn’t mean they …Read More »
- F or the first time ever we have a Super Bowl #1 pick of the draft off at quarterback with Joe Burrow vs Matt Stafford. Burrow makes the Super Bowl in just his second season while …Read More »
- Mike Tomlin and the Pittsburgh Steelers trailed 36-10 to the Chiefs in the 4th quarter of Week 16 with 2:47 left. The Chiefs had the ball and a first down. The game was over. Patrick …Read More »
- I ‘ve been commissioned to get to the bottom of this. Does Bill Belichick play conservatively during “must win” games – thus leading the under total score line to hit? And can we win millions by …Read More »
- 32 runs in a row. Somewhere, a naked and relaxing Mark Shlereth still lays in bed alone smoking a cigarette. This was old school football guy utopia in the age of passing analytics making …Read More »
- On Sunday, November 29, 2020 football lovers were able to see one of the most dominating performances by a receiver in the history of the NFL. A performance so off the charts, it sent analysts …Read More »
- Bums™ in the NBA get no respect. When the game is on the line, and your favorite NBA team has a chance to win on a final shot, who would you rather have hurling …Read More »
- Have you ever wondered what percentage of NCAA D1 men’s basketball players make it to the NBA by their exact height? I did, so I took a deep dive web-scraping height data on every college …Read More »
- How do you low-key miss 35 shots in a row as a professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association? This is the story of Kevin Burleson. Kevin Burleson (KB) played one year of NBA …Read More »
- Listen, here are the facts. In his final two years with the Bulls, Michael Jordan’s field goal percentage in the third quarter of the playoffs was drastically lower than any other quarter. But in both …Read More »
- So you think making $35M in 13 years as an NFL quarterback without being expected to do basically anything is a smash and grab kinda job? It’s slightly more complicated than that. Chase Daniel Ocean …Read More »
- There’s a popular theory in the football analytics community that quarterbacks tend to reach an age in which their passing efficiency drops drastically indicating they are no longer viable NFL quarterbacks. It’s called the QB …Read More »
- Super Bowl LIV expects to be great one. So great, no one is really taking a hard stand guaranteeing a victor either way. The Chiefs are a measly 1-point favorite after Las Vegas considered how …Read More »
- We are spoiled rotten as NFL fans of the now 2020’s and I’m here to use statistics and history to remind you to be a little more thankful for one particular aspect of the game: field …Read More »
- You’ve heard it once. You’ve heard it a million times. Some brainiac holding box score statistics goes off about how you can’t abandon the run in the NFL. The lecture quickly turns into the genius …Read More »
- It’s about time the remaining NFL GMs who still think paying top dollar for a running back is a good idea to take a hard look in the mirror and come to grips with the …Read More »
- If you Commish a fantasy football league and don’t write up a mid-season report for the sole purpose of shitting on everyone as ruthlessly as possible, you’re doing it all wrong. I’ve been doing this …Read More »
- Twitter Follow Stathole Sports This Sunday’s “NFL” match-up between the 0-4 Miami dolphins and the 0-5 Washington Redskins has the historical backing of being the worst game in the history of the NFL and it’s …Read More »
- Twitter Follow Stathole Sports Pete Carroll might be my new worst enemy. An anti-statite of the greatest degree, the NFL’s eldest dinosaur of a coach simply refuses to use basic statistics in his in-game decision-making. …Read More »
- Twitter Follow Stathole Sports Is it possible for an NFL team to be so bad they go 0-17 or just forfeit the rest of the year out of respect for their opponents time? I’ve never …Read More »
- Twitter Follow Stathole Sports This is not exactly the article to read for a bold take. Instead it gives you, the fantasy football team owner, the best visualization of how impactful each position is from all …Read More »
- Twitter Follow Stathole Sports Paul Charcian is the super trendy hipster fantasy analyst who coined the “do the opposite” strategy back in the 90s before it was even cool. He loves this strategy so much it’s posted …Read More »
- Twitter Follow Stathole Sports Finding a fantasy football tight end is a lot more like finding a girlfriend than you think. You can only pick one. And if you are in a situation where you …Read More »
- Twitter Follow Stathole Sports The Monsters of the Midway returned from hibernation in 2018 and the paw prints they left in real football reverberated their way to fantasy by scoring an astounding 44 MORE fantasy …Read More »
- Twitter Follow Stathole Sports Is Tom Brady going to fall off the face of the quarterback earth this year? For yet another year this has been a talking point regarding the soon-to-be 42-year-old Super Bowl …Read More »
- Twitter Follow Stathole Sports Now that the NBA season is over it’s time to re-evaluate who the game’s most clutch player is. It’s not who you think. Unless you read the title. Then it is. …Read More »
- Twitter Follow Stathole Sports I walked into the grocery store last Sunday night here in southern California to find an unattended merchandise table next to the entrance filled with LA Rams Conference Champion tee shirts. …Read More »
- Twitter Follow Stathole Sports Cody Parkey was 3 for 3 before lining up for the infamous 43-yard field goal attempt against the Eagles. This game-losing miss was not only literally an inch away from ricocheting …Read More »