The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

So another World Cup has come and gone. Enough water had passed under the bridge that I no longer resented Argentina for their dismal perfor...

So Brazil gets humiliatingly crushed in the World Cup by Germany, 7-1. While there is much to be said about this, mostly in the way of crue...

When I was in Toronto about a month ago, a friend of mine who lives there told me how there's some suggestion that the Buffalo Bills NFL...

I find myself somewhat conflicted on the subject of mixed martial arts, like the Ultimate Fighting Championships . Far and away the best t...

- It's always good when you're watching a group of runners lined up on the track without hearing the earlier announcements, and you ...

The second effect of overconfidence on the sports field is that people over-invest in the sport. In other words, when you think you have h...

Statisticians rarely make good members of sports teams. I found this out the hard way when I used to be on a frisbee team. Most people run...

Let me explain briefly some logic that may seem superficially appealing, but is in fact catastrophically wrong: Nobody wants to play goalie...

Steve Sailer's take . I really liked this anecdote: When my son was ten, his baseball coach—inspired by Michael Lewis’s bestseller Mone...

John Nash would be proud . Today is clearly a double-dose of Yank Sports + Economics. In other news, penalties for 'excessive cele...