ESPN Casts a Critical Look at Its Meal Ticket: Football
In Defense of Israeli Forces’ Social Media Propaganda
Why Is the NFL’s Trade Deadline So Boring?
Meet the Corgi Who Helped California Raise Taxes
Nate Silver Is a One-Man Traffic Machine for the Times
“FiveThirtyEight is drawing huge traffic,” New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson told me yesterday. She added, “What’s interesting is a lot of the traffic is coming just for Nate.” READ MORE >>
The First Monday Night Football Before the First Tuesday in November
There was probably a time when it would have been considered a debasement of the democratic process for the presidential candidates’ final appeals directed at television audiences before Election Day to appear during halftime of a football broadcast—on cable, no less! (Admittedly, this aforementioned “time” probably came before cable.) READ MORE >>
“Re: Nate Silver, most amusing thing about this election is watching political pundits make sports fans look like PhD mathematicians,” tweeted ESPN basketball writer John Hollinger earlier this week. READ MORE >>
Will We Miss David Stern’s Heavy Hands?
On Opposite Night, Obama Attacks Romney on Israel
The whole campaign, Mitt Romney has used Israel as a cudgel against Barack Obama. At the foreign policy-themed debate, it was the reverse. For all the snarking on Twitter, Israel was brought up just as much as could be expected. The surprising part was who was making the attacks. READ MORE >>
