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Stephen Curry Is The Revolution

Other than Daryl Morey, Curry is perhaps the figurehead in the NBA’s Three-Point Revolution™. It’s easy to get swept up in the narrative that 3-point shooting has been long-undervalued and that smart sharpshooters are finally taking over the NBA. Teams that shot the most and the best from beyond the arc last year dominated like never before. The correlation between a team’s rate of attempting threes and its winning percentage was the highest it has ever been (.47). In the playoffs, the top 3-point-shooting teams made up the entirety of the conference finals:

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NFL Arrest-o-meter

If no NFL Football players are arrested between now and the end of Black Friday(11/27), it will be the longest arrest free streak in over 11 years and 2 months of NFL history. On average a player gets arrested every 7 days, we are currently over 5 times the average. If no players get arrested by the end of november, it will be the first calendar month in over 6 years without an arrest.

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Real-time 3D conversion for sports

By exploiting the graphics-rendering software that powers sports video games, researchers at MIT and the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) have developed a system that automatically converts 2-D video of soccer games into 3-D.