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    Fenway Tour: Worth It?

    I moved to Seattle eons ago, but have to go to Harvard for a research project in January. As my girlfriend is a baseball and Fallout 4 nerd and has never been to Fenway, she wants to come with me and do the tour. I only have one day free and I don't want to use that day to stand in a freezing...
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    Testing Your Draft Acumen

    Periodically I like to do a "rebuild draft" where I pretend to draft an entire team from scratch using the following selections: 3, 5, 7, 9, 15, 20, 30, 35, 45, 60. That is essentially what you would get out of two years of trading away all of the assets of a bad team and rebuilding purely from...
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    State-Administered Doping in Russia

    The FSB (successor to the KGB) has been running a system to protect Russian athletes who are doping. This included swapping urine samples at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and hiding Russian athletes from drug testers in secure military bases...
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    Why do fans complain about crosses?

    It's been nearly a year since David Moyes left Manchester United and I still have to listen to their fans complain about his crossing-heavy strategy. I can understand why they dislike hoofball (long passes up the field) because they are very low percentage passes: it's the soccer equivalent of a...
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    Soccer Farm Teams

    I saw this image on FC Porto's transfer record today:   600 million Euros!!?!?!!   It really makes me wonder why more teams don't own lower tier clubs they can use to lay away developmental players from South America. Sporting and Benfica do a decent bit of trade with prospects as well. So why...
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    Can Love Be a Centerpiece of a Champion?

    The question is just how good Kevin Love is, and whether he can carry a team to the finals as its best player. That obviously matters if the Celtics are going to trade for him.
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