Here is a paragraph from a recent article in the New York Times entitled “The Evil of the Outdoor Cat” (emphasis added): And wildlife in this country must share this land with a growing population of about 84 million owned cats, and anywhere from 30 to 80 million feral or stray cats. When all of…

  Last night I posted our picks within the distribution of all picks in the kaggle competition.  I’ve now updated that for the third (nee second) round. If you’re rooting for us, this chart will help you decide who to root for.  If you’re rooting against us, this chart will also help you decide you…

I got back from Vegas a few hours ago.  If you’ve never been to Vegas during the NCAA tournament, you’re going to want to do that.  There is nothing in the world like a room full of people watching a 15 point game with 90 seconds left screaming at the giant screen for the team…

Ohio State over Dayton by 6 Wisconsin over American by 15 Pittsburgh over Colorado by 6 Cincinnati over Harvard by 1 Syracuse over W Michigan by 15 Oregon over BYU by 3 Michigan state over Delaware by 13 UConn over St. Joseph’s by 4 Michigan over Wofford by 16 Oklahoma over N. Dakota State by…

I’ll be live blogging the NCAA tournament today from the Luxor sportsbook in Las Vegas, NV.  The line to place a bet is about 100 deep right now.  I got all of my bets for today in last night.  I’m 4-9 so far through my first two days here.  Not good. My bet’s today: Manhattan…

I was just driving home from work, and I heard a guy named Adam Meyer on the radio (shame on you WEEI for letting this guy on the radio).  He was offering a discount deal on his picks for the NCAA tournament through his website RealMoneySports.com.  Guys like this are ALWAYS a scam.  If he…

Originally posted on StatsbyLopez: The National Hockey League has once again made headlines for tweaking its standards of playoff qualification, this time deciding it would look into into modifying the league’s shootout system. In the current structure, a shootout concludes any 5-minute overtime session ending without a goal, with the winning team earning an extra point…

I recently received the following email advertising the “outstanding event Obesity-2014”: It is quite an honor to be so “highly regarded in Medicine field” and be invited to such a conference.  However, there are several problems here.  For instance, I don’t work with obesity at all.  I have published a paper about nutrition as a…

Updated 3-10-2014 at 9:19pm Note: These aren’t necessarily projections of what I think WILL happen, these are projections of what I think SHOULD happen. Last 4 in: Georgetown, Stanford, Minnesota, Florida State First 4 out: Missouri, West Virginia, Dayton, Arkansas   Teams Seed wichita state 1 florida 1 arizona 1 villanova 1 syracuse 2 kansas 2…

Originally posted on StatsbyLopez: In a 2012 paper in Economic Inquiry, the University of Mississippi’s Carl Kitchens described how a repositioning of an NFL referee led to a change in the frequency of offensive holding penalties. Kitchens writes: The results suggest that the detection effect is large. Simply by repositioning the officials in the NFL, the…