Last month we published The Upshot’s map of college football fandom, showing where people root for what college teams. That map offers great detail about what teams college football fans root for in a given location, but nothing about how concentrated college football fans are in that place.
Here, we are looking at another question: not which teams fans root for, but the proportion of the population in various places who are fans of any college football team.
Basketball VS High Jump. This is what last weeks 2.43m clearance by Barshim looks like next to a basketball ring.
Incredible. Can’t wait for the first high-jumper in history to slam dunk themself!
Roger Federer’s 9 Raquets
All of P1’s clients are men. Ferguson said that, over the years, he has fielded inquiries from Serena Williams and other female players. “Once I told them the cost, I’d never hear back from them.” He said that the women generally use fewer racquets than the men do so they have less of a need for a full-time stringing service. Also, “Guys care more about their tools—their sneakers, the technical aspects of their racquets,” Ferguson said.
.. In tennis circles, it is widely agreed that no player has benefitted more from advances in racquet and string technology than the twenty-eight-year-old Nadal
LeBron James Shows a Growing Willingness to Take the Lead on Social Issues
It was not lost on some that when James first expressed his opinion about Sterling, it was in Charlotte, N.C., where the local N.B.A. team is owned by Michael Jordan.
As the league’s singular star throughout the 1990s, Jordan also personified the shift away from the activist athletes of earlier generations toward those less inclined to say anything that might offend sponsors, a bountiful new source of income for top stars. Jordan cemented this standing when he explained why he did not stump for a Democratic candidate who was running against the North Carolina senator Jesse Helms, who opposed a national holiday for Martin Luther King Jr.: Republicans buy sneakers, too.