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National President: Democratic primary Polls
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The NFL Is Obsessed With Passing, But Teams Could Make Runs More Efficient
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Football is a struggle for leverage — a battle for favorable positioning between offensive and defensive players relative to the ball. Each play …
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Politics Podcast: What Fueled Conservatives’ Big Win In The British Election
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The British Conservative Party, headed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, won a resounding victory in the UK general election Thursday. The party took …
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What Makes Our New 2020 Democratic Primary Polling Averages Different
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Well, sure. Actually, we think having a variety of polling averages matters a lot in the presidential primaries — and the one you look at can change …
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Ice Hockey
The Colorado Avalanche Went From Worst To First In No Time Flat
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It wasn’t very long ago that the Colorado Avalanche were categorically the NHL’s worst team. Back in 2016-17, the club notched only 48 points — 21 …
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Chess
Can You Solve A Particularly Prismatic Puzzle?
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Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability. Two puzzles are …
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Terence Crawford
The World’s Best Pound-For-Pound Boxer Is From Nebraska
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When Terence Crawford headlines Madison Square Garden on Saturday night, there’s a safe bet that the name of his hometown will appear along the …
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Wire Fraud
Significant Digits for Friday, Dec. 13, 2019
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You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. Today’s number is 368, the number of seats the U.K. …
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U.S. Politics
The Democratic Presidential Candidates Are Becoming Less Popular
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Being well-liked matters for presidential candidates: Generally speaking, they need to be at least somewhat popular to win. To that effect, Monmouth …
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Anthony Rendon
Anthony Rendon Is Instantly Mike Trout’s Best Teammate
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Spurned by the consensus top free agent in MLB’s 2020 class — pitcher Gerrit Cole, who signed with the Yankees late Tuesday — the Los Angeles Angels …
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Women's Basketball
Trying A Layup On These UConn Huskies? You Might Get Your Shot Blocked.
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Desiree Elmore, Seton Hall’s 5-foot-10 force of nature, is one of the best isolation players in all of women’s basketball, averaging a point per …
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New Zealand
Significant Digits for Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019
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You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. In 2018, Kirk Cousins was signed as a free agent by the …
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Religion
Millennials Are Leaving Religion And Not Coming Back
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Millennials have earned a reputation for reshaping industries and institutions — shaking up the workplace, transforming dating culture, and …
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U.S. Politics
Seven Candidates Have Qualified For The December Democratic Debate
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The crowded Democratic presidential candidate field has defined much of the 2020 election cycle, including the size of the primary debates, with the …
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New York Yankees
Free-Agent Aces Like Gerrit Cole Often Deliver The Championship Goods
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SAN DIEGO — Gerrit Cole was a fan of the New York Yankees as a kid. The Yankees have also long been admirers of Cole, drafting him in the first round …
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Sports
Kirk Cousins Is Putting Together An Under-The-Radar Elite Season
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Eighteen months after Minnesota Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer introduced Kirk Cousins to the media as his new quarterback and as the highest-paid …
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News
Which Senators Are Likely To Vote For Trump’s Removal?
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On Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats announced two articles of impeachment against President Trump: abuse of power and …
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Insurance
Significant Digits for Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019
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You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. Today’s number is 2.8, the percent of all venture capital …
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U.S. Politics
Why It’s Tougher To Qualify For The December Democratic Debate
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Throughout 2019, there have been a number of complaints that the Democratic National Committee’s thresholds for debate qualification are either too …
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U.S. Politics
What Iowa Voters’ Second-Choice Picks Can Tell Us
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Polling in presidential primary campaigns is notoriously fluid. In an effort to gauge movement among voters as they might change their mind and as …
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Sports
Banning Russia From The Olympics Won’t Stop Doping
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Hot Takedown discusses WADA’s ban on Russia (but not its athletes), a clear-cut top four in the College Football Playoff and intradivisional …
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NFL
The Steelers Are Playing Like It’s The 1970s
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The Pittsburgh Steelers revisited their 1970s uniforms this year, fitting for a throwback season of defense leading the team to success. Gone are the …
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U.S. Politics
How The Televised Hearings Have Moved Public Opinion On Impeachment
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In November, Democrats and Republicans questioned witnesses in the first five public hearings on impeachment. Did the week of televised testimony …
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U.S. Politics
The 2010s Were A Complicated Decade For Democrats And White Voters
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There’s an aphorism I like, that we are entirely new people from one day to the next, let alone a year or a decade. Whether, say, a novelist writes …
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U.S. Politics
Where Americans Stand On The Democrats’ Impeachment Charges
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After months of investigation and public testimony, the impeachment train has officially left the station. On Tuesday, Democrats introduced two …
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Figure Skating
Significant Digits for Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019
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You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. Today’s number is two, for the number of Olympics Russia has …
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U.S. Politics
Why Aren’t More Women Breaking Out In The Democratic Primary?
FiveThirtyEight - Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux
Six months can make a big difference in a presidential race — even if no actual votes have been cast. Back in June, when the primary was still …
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Sports
College Football Doesn’t Give Black Coaches Many Chances
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Where Willie Taggart goes, so goes history. The 43-year-old — whose parents worked in migrant fields — landed head-coaching gigs at Oregon and …
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U.S. Politics
Politics Podcast: The Democratic Primary, According To The Early States
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In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew previews the official FiveThirtyEight polling averages for the 2020 Democratic …
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Sports
Brady Looks Bad, The Niners Look Great, And The AFC South Is A Mess
FiveThirtyEight - Sara Ziegler, Neil Paine, Josh Hermsmeyer and Michael Salfino
sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): Week 14 of the NFL season brought us a couple of marquee matchups between top contenders — along with a …
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