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Memo To Jonah Lehrer: Mark Cuban Says The Mavs Used Statistics Against The HeatJonah Lehrer is still arguing that the Dallas Mavericks beat the Miami Heat by ignoring statistics and turning loose the intangible powers of J.J. Barea. Or at least that stat-heads can't prove that wasn't the case:...

Grantland's Jonah Lehrer Loves Intangibles So Much He Made A Whole Argument Out Of ThemAren't sports statistics terrible? Of course they are. Sports has been overrun by number-nerds, and the number-nerds get angry if you point this out. So Jonah Lehrer, writing at Grantland about the pernicious influence of numerical analysis, makes sure not to bring up any actual examples of how numb...

Playing Left-Handed At Wimbledon Is As Big An Advantage As Playing Right-HandedToday's New York Times reports from Wimbledon on the sneaky advantage that left-handed tennis players enjoy on grass:...