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August 14, 2008
Expected Better
Freakonomics is a favorite of mine. I somehow missed the fact that the authors maintain a blog to keep the Freako-ideas coming. I’ve added it to my Friends and Favorites section to the right, between Mark Cuban and Malcolm Gladwell.
Steven Levitt, the economist behind Freakonomics, wrote an article a while back touting a [...]
August 12, 2008
Teams We’re Likely to Love or Hate
I’m a big fan of futures. Every season I marvel at their accuracy. In some years certain teams really surprise. I recall Captain Kurt’s Rams crushing Vegas’ preseason wins prediction in 1999. If you took the Over on Vegas’ line of 7 wins for the team that became the Greatest Show [...]
June 22, 2008
Wagers of Sin
I first wrote about “Wagers of Sin,” an excellent gambling article by James Surowiecki, back in 2006. You can find the post through the OLD BLOG tab above, 09/28/2006 entry. The article appeared in the September 25, 2006 issue of The New Yorker. (A link to more of Surowiecki’s work is in [...]
