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What Are the Odds of the Auburn Tigers' Cameron Newton Winning the Heisman Trophy?
Right about the time MaconDawg began examining Cameron Newton’s Heisman Trophy prospects, Dr. Saturday reported that bookmakers had stopped laying odds on the Auburn quarterback’s chances. I am troubled by the notion that red-blooded Americans can’t get unscrupulous hustlers to cite dubious numbers...
Helium Footballs: Busted
As narrator Robert Lee said, at 110 PSI you lose a football but gain a hat. In honor of this being Vanderbilt Week around here, I decided to write up a quick piece on a football physics puzzle. Does filling a football up with helium make it fly farther? In season four of the popular show...
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