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June 17, 2019

Sports

The Best American Sports Cities

The criteria: –Must have at least 2 professional teams of the big four sports. (Sorry San Antonio) –Both past and present performance is considered, with greater weight given to the present. –Though championships and sustained competitiveness are the [...]
Sports

The Greatest Men’s Tennis Players of All Time

The greatest men’s tennis players of the Open Era. 1) Roger Federer, Switzerland Majors: 20 (8 Wimbledons, 5 US Opens, 6 Australian Opens, 1 French Open) Other achievements: 6 ATP World Tour finals, 98 ATP career [...]
Basketball

The All Time NBA Power Rankings

The top ten most successful NBA teams of all time, ranked by historical success and continued relevance. 1) Celtics– Founded in 1946. 17 championships and 21 conference titles; 12 winning seasons this century Last Championship: [...]
Movies

The 50 Greatest Modern Directors

The fifty greatest directors in modern film history. Works that best typify each artist’s talents are loosely ranked within. (Must have at least one 21st Century film to be considered “modern.”) Martin Scorsese: Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Taxi [...]
Baseball

The Greatest College Baseball Schools

For all the complaints about the one-and-done epidemic in college hoops, the none-and done nature of baseball seems almost barely worth mentioning. In 2009, the Wall Street Journal found that there were only 26 college [...]