Latest articles by Jon Tayler
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The lessons of the Dodgers' and Blue Jays' massively expensive failuresfeature A winning team simply requires too many above-average parts to staff them all via trade or free agency
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The folly of searching for the perfect closerfeature Every team wants to find the next Mariano Rivera. They always fail.
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NFL Week 9 recap: 4 key takeaways from the weekendfeature Nick Foles gives Philadelphia what it needs, Seattle and Kansas City survive (barely), and the Panthers come roaring back
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NFL Week 8: Recapping the best and worst of the weekendfeature Detroit's Calvin Johnson has a historic Sunday, the Dolphins are fried, and the Chiefs keep their perfect season alive
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NFL recap: 4 takeaways from Sunday's gamesfeature Denver's loss is Kansas City's gain, Tom Brady's struggles continue, and the Eagles slow down
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NFL season preview: 7 burning questionsfeature The 2013 season kicks off tonight. We are very ready for some football.
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The utter failure of baseball's luxury taxfeature Exhibit A: The big-spending Dodgers. Exhibit B: The loophole-exploiting Yankees
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Florida Gulf Coast's incredible run: What it means for the NCAA tournamentfeature With remarkable victories over Georgetown and San Diego State, Florida Gulf Coast has become the first 15-seed to ever reach the Sweet 16
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4 NBA teams that can stop the Miami Heatfeature LeBron James and Co. are the overwhelming favorites to win the NBA championship this June. But it's hardly a lock
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How the Yankees are thriving with an impossibly old, injury-ravaged, no-name rosterfeature The Bronx Bombers were supposed to be having an off-year. Instead, they're competing for the division lead
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The statistical lessons of Harvard's tremendous NCAA tournament upset victoryfeature Practically no one expected the 14th-seeded Crimson to challenge New Mexico. But if we had only bothered to examine the numbers first...
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The MLB All-Star Game's home-field advantage prize is massively importantfeature MLB teams with home-field advantage have won 25 of the 32 World Series since 1980. And you get home-field advantage if your league wins tonight's All-Star Game
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Why baseball is abandoning the stolen basefeature Billy Hamilton had a jaw-dropping 155 stolen bases in the minors last year — a figure that is all but unimaginable in today's power-driven Big League
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How Major League Baseball became a pitchers' leaguefeature Strikeouts are way up. Batting average is way down. And it's not as simple as blaming tough new steroid regulations.
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NFL recap: 4 takeaways from the weekend's football gamesfeature
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NFL weekend recap: Broncos win, Patriots lose, and Houston has a problemfeature Five takeaways from football's Week Five
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