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A very interesting adademic paper from 2005 that has resurfaced in the context of the World Cup: How free circulation of labour in football has improved the game overall, increased inequality between clubs, but on the other hand reduced the gap in strenght between national teams – and what all of this tells us about globalisation.
Love or hate those World Cup predictions – I, for one, love them when they have a solid methodology behind them. Here’s FiveThirtyEight’s comprehensive (yet still easy to understand) description of how they predict not just the World Cup (yay, 2% chance of Switzerland winning the title), but individual matches. The most fascinating part: how they adjust the odds during live matches.
So this turned out a lot more interesting than I had anticipated. If your opponents fear you as the best baseball player of all time, do you even need a bat to be successful? Love the idea behind this thought experiment and the thoroughness of the simulation. Oh, and the results.
Not sure if I agree, but it’s a solid case. Roger Federer certainly falls short given those criteria.
A fine-grained analysis of Roger Federer’s return to greatness. Like a matter-of-factly version of David Foster Wallace’s fabled «Roger Federer as religious experience».
A great documentary that was never meant to be that way. A filmmaker and hobby-athlete decides to test on himself how doping works. All of a sudden he’s in the middle of one of the biggest doping scandals in history. And the Russian mastermind behind it implores him for help.
Roger Federer like you’ve never seen him before.
Two months ago, I stood at the foot of this monumental 1000 metre wall in Yosemite. Looking up alone made me shiver. Not this guy.
Roger Federer’s stunning win at the Australian Open is – of course – the perfect reason to re-read David Foster Wallace’s timeless piece of beauty, «Roger Federer as Religious Experience». Then again, you probably knew this one already. Serena Williams, no less impressively, won the Australian Open, too. A perfect reason to read this quintessential piece on her.
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