Have numbers become too subjective?
Anyone who believes mathematics is the world’s universal language clearly hasn’t been following the news lately. Depending on where you are or what channel you’re watching, the numbers have Sarah Palin as either the most popular woman on the planet, the most despised woman on the planet or as one Fox poll suggested, the woman who most voters haven’t yet made up their minds about. There is no such thing as a general consensus anymore. And sports is no exception.By now, anyone who might stumble across this website has listened to countless members of the media, including former coaches and players, scrutinize Bill Belichick’s decision to go for it on

Coach K can show Charlie Weis and Notre Dame how to win
Ask anyone who is even slightly familiar with college basketball about the best coaches over the past two decades and there is little doubt that Mike Krzyzewski will be one of the first names mentioned. This is obvious. The Duke Coach is a no-brainer. But what might be most impressive about Coach K isn’t just that what he’s done with the Blue Devils in his career, but who he’s done it with.According to the US News & World Report, Duke University is the tenth best school in the United States, just behind Columbia and the University of Chicago, but ahead of Northwestern, Johns Hopkins and Brown. And while these rankings are entirely subjective and for the most part, irre

Plenty of questions remain unanswered in Jasper Howard murder
It’s supposed to be such an open and shut case. We learn that a suspect in the murder of a UConn football player is a black kid from Hartford who isn’t a student and we immediately assume the worst: He must be a gangbanging drug dealer and it was only a matter of time before he killed an innocent, upstanding individual. Just as quick, we go into Law & Order mode in an attempt to determine John W. Lomax’s motive. He must have been so jealous of all the attention Jasper Howard and his teammates were receiving following their homecoming victory that he couldn’t take it anymore and just snapped. He must be a pathetic loner. Women probably loathe him.Then

It's not about winning: LeBron has outgrown Cleveland
That ratings from the 2009 World Series showed the greatest year-to-year growth in the history of baseball shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to anyone. The New York Yankees are a worldwide brand and play in the nation’s largest television market and the Philadelphia Phillies were the defending champions. It was, to say the least, a significant upgrade from the year before, when the then relatively unknown Phillies and small-market Tampa Bay Rays put up the worst Fall Classic ratings in history.Of all places that saw a dramatic hike in viewers, however, Cleveland, OH seems to raise the most eyebrows. At least on the surface. The Indians’ were essentially eliminated from

Yankees played Moneyball better than anyone in 2009
There was one very logical reason for Michael Lewis not to base his 2003 best seller “Moneyball” on the New York Yankees: Americans don’t like rooting for Goliath. It’s in our fabric to favor the underdog, the little guy who everyone counts out. That’s what made the scrappy Oakland A’s the perfect choice for Lewis. They were the team competing with the Yankees with only a fraction of the payroll thanks to a quirky general manager and his staff full of number-crunchers who never let their gut-feeling get in the way.But if Lewis’ book was about a progressive franchise exploiting market inefficiencies to overcome all the odds, then the 2009 season proved once and