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Football Is Weird, Part Infinity

2

Analytics, But From The Gut

3

It's Anybody's World Series

4

Why Our Model (Still) Hates The Lakers

5

Championships, Random-ships

6

The Dodgers Need A Reseed

7

Brady vs. Belichick: Round Whatever

8

Math Nerds (And The Ravens) Win

9

Actually, Week 1 Does Matter

10

How We See The NFL Season

11

Nebraska's Frost Is Melting

12

Turns Out 500 Is A Lot Of Home Runs

13

Our Expectations Aren't Being Met By The Mets

14

A Messi Situation

15

Simone Biles Beams Back

16

Big Trouble For The Big 12

17

So The Olympics Are Still Happening?

18

All NBA Finals Takes Are Possible

19

The Suns vs. The Bucks vs. Injuries

20

MLB Tries To Get A Grip

21

SCOTUS 9, NCAA 0

22

The Enemy Of My Enemy Roots For The Islanders

23

A Fair Trade For Julio Jones

24

Everyone Lost In The French Open Fracas

25

Can You Have Too Many No-Hitters?

26

Playoffs And Play-Ins

27

It's Hard To Leave MLB Gracefully

28

Draft Grades Are Meaningless But Also A+ Fun

29

This NFL Draft Class Still Has Some QB Questions

30

A Super League Super Fight

31

Can We Keep Our Early Baseball Takes Cool?

32

An End To The Madness

33

All Hype Is Good Hype

34

The NCAA Is Bad At Capitalism

35

Let's Pick Our Brackets

36

A Year Of Pandemic Sports

37

Why's Everyone Writing Off The Jazz?

38

Osaka's Rise Doesn't Mean Serena Is Done

39

Grading The NHL's Start On And Off The Ice

40

How The Bucs Sunk The Chiefs

41

Baby GOAT vs. Grizzled GOAT

42

The Analytics On Being Aggressive

43

One Super Bowl Win Isn't Enough Anymore?

44

Alabama Was The Unstoppable Force AND The Immovable Object

45

Ohio State Made The Committee Look Good, And Bad

46

Let's Stuff 2020 Down A Rabbit Hole

47

New Year, New RAPTOR

48

Along Came A (Cleveland) Spider

49

The Jets' Tank Is Empty

50

Hard To Play Football Without A Quarterback

51

College Basketball Tries To Stay Positive (And COVID-Negative)

52

The NBA's Not-Normal November

53

What's Wrong With The NFL's Best Teams?

54

All Podcasts Are Political

55

Belichick Is Fresh Out Of Magic

56

More Moneyball, More Problems?

57

The Lakers Burst The Heat's Bubble

58

Bill O'Brien Set His Own Hot Seat On Fire

59

MLB's Sweet Sixteen

60

Week Two Of The NFL Hurt

61

From Wentz They Came

62

Are We Ready For Some Football?

63

The NBA Strike Was Personal

64

Emergency Podcast: Sports On Strike

65

"Processing" The Sixers' Loss

66

A Tale Of Two Bubbles

67

The Slow Fall Of Football

68

Will College Football Fail Its First Exam?

69

MLB's "Plan" Didn't Pan Out

70

Ready Or Not, Here Comes Baseball

71

College Football Makes A Conference Call

72

What's In A Team Name?

73

New(ton) England

74

Flattening The Curveball

75

NBA Players Hit Pause

76

Was Drew Brees's Fourth Apology The Charm?

77

What Can Sports Do?

78

Show Me The Money(ball)

79

Shall We Last Dance?

80

Live Sports? In This Economy?

81

U.S. Soccer's Big Day In Court

82

Jordan Love Is A Battlefield

83

Bringing Down The Krause

84

Time To Get Weird, Sports Leagues

85

Going The Social Distance

86

Reality TV Is Our Only Hope For Hoops

87

Olympic Flame-Out

88

2020: A Sports-Less Odyssey

89

Live from Sloan: How Has RAPTOR Done So Far?

90

"Anybody Can Make The Final Four"

91

"The Great 8 Is Better Than The Great One"

92

"They Fixed The NBA All-Star Game"

93

Kobe Bryant: On and Off The Court

94

"The Niners Choked"

95

"Will Jimmy Garoppolo Be The Hero?"

96

Sign Stealing: Worse Than Steroids!

97

"The Ravens Always Choke"

98

"No One Believed In Us, And Rightfully So"

99

A Decade In Sports

100

STAT SCHOOL: From Box Scores to RAPTOR