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A statistical analysis. A few assumptions are often tossed around about overtime: first, that the home team has an advantage; and second, that teams carry over fourth quarter momentum into extra time. We looked at both, breaking down how often the home and away teams won in a variety of scenarios. The data used in the analysis comes from SportsDataBase.com and covers all games from the 2002-03 season up to the beginning of the 2013 playoffs (a total of 754 overtime games).The graphic above displays historic results for both home and away teams under nine different overtime scenarios. The vertical columns tell you which team had the better record going into the game — the "tie" column means they had the same record coming in. The horizontal rows list which team was winning the game going into the fourth quarter of regulation. The two bars in the upper left corner of the chart, for example, are the results of games in which the home team had a better record than the visitor and led the game at the start of the fourth quarter. (In other words, the away team staged a comeback to force overtime.)A few general results of the analysis: Away teams who'd blown a lead did better than away teams who'd made a comeback. Specifically, away teams that came into the game with a better record than their opponents won more overtimes after LOSING a fourth quarter lead than they did after making a fourth quarter comeback, suggesting that momentum isn't all it's cracked up to be. (Away teams that had worse records than their opponents did about the same in overtime whether or not they'd lost a lead.) Overall, home teams won fewer overtime games than they did games as a whole. Home teams won 61% of ALL games in the time period studied but only 54% of those that went to OT, which means our results might suggest that home-court advantage isn't as important in the extra period as conventional wisdom would have it. (Of course, visiting teams that force overtime are probably better on the whole than the general pool of all visiting teams.) View Entire List ›

They’re “extra terrific.” OMG, how cool are these? In 1982, shoe company Buster Brown came out with a collection of E.T.-themed kicks. They also came with E.T. trading cards, stickers, and bubble gum. Source: pinterest.com While there were dressier varieties like the shoes above, Buster Brown also created some sportier sneaker designs. Source: etsy.com Check out those platform sneakers. Here's the commercial....with a very original jingle. View Entire List ›

If you are traveling to Florida’s Paradise Coast, bring along your pet. You can find so many pet-friendly places in Naples, Marco Island and other top spots –  from restaurants to resorts… and even the farmer’s market. Shopping for your … More »The post Pet-Friendly Fun in Florida’s Paradise Coast appeared first on EveryJoe.

Miami Dolphins’ quarterback Ryan Tannehill and his beautiful wife Lauren are in Miami this weekend for a few day…

Or, more accurately, for the rest of their lives. Have you ever done something to really disappoint your parents? No. Like, REALLY disappoint them. Well, we disappointed our parents a bunch of times. Source: youtube.com -"Moving away from home and out of state."-"Forgetting their birthday, even though they always remember yours"-"Dyeing your hair."-"Getting a shitty tattoo."-"If they see drunk photos of you on FB or find your twitter feed."-"Forgetting to call your grandpa on his 96th birthday"Crashing your car. Actually: crashing their car.-"Deciding to become a writer."-"Not deciding to become an engineer."-"Not deciding to become a lawyer."-"Backing your dad's new porsche out of the garage without opening the garage door first."-"Leaving the keys to a rental car in the car when you parked it in HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES because you were running late to your dance class and it was probably definitely not there when class was over."-"Not attending family reunions."-"Not visiting them for holidays."-"Going to art school."-"Parking the car in your slanted driveway and turning the engine off when you're 15 and just got your learner's permit but forgetting to take it out of drive and coming back outside later to see your neighbor across the street calmly raking leaves next to the 1993 Toyota Camry station wagon that's now resting in his front yard.-"Crashing your car on the way to your cousin's bar mitzvah and missing the bar mitzvah. also, dropping out of grad school to sell alcohol."-"Coming home from college freshman year with a nose ring." View Entire List ›

I hope this guy won some money on this. Step One: Putt down the stairs for fun. Yeah you probably won't make it, but it sure beats TPS reports. Step Two: "..." (Read: Wait. Wait. No. No way. No way!) Step Three: IT'S IN THE HOLE! YOU'RE THE GOLDEN GOD OF THE OFFICE PARK. Karen in accounts will totally sleep with you now. View Entire List ›

Ian Kinsler: take a bow, buddy. During Thursday's Tigers-Rangers game, Elvis Andrus hit a routine singler to right field. Ian Kinsler ran from first to third. Everything seemed routine. Seemed routine, that is, until the camera cut to Kinsler, lying facedown, his entire body past third base, only his toe touching the bag. And then Kinsler sheepishly looks into the camera and grins. Something happened. What happened? WHAT DID YOU DO THIS TIME, KINSLER. Well, his teammates are saying we should look at the replay. (Also, something about moose.) So let's look at the replay. View Entire List ›

I am both kicking it old school and reaching into the diversion vaults (shoebox) with this one. What is the most boring movie you have ever seen? Not Plan 9 From Outer Space bad, rather, dull, interminable, tis a ponderous film. A movie so tedious that if you had a week to live, you would watch it on a loop to make the time drag on and so you would welcome the sweet release of death. With any luck your answer will come to you as quickly as it did to me: The Hours. Never has a movie been more aptly named. Do you remember The Hours? If you have succesfully blocked it out, kudos to you! Nicole Kidman and a ludicrous prosthetic nose won the Oscar for it that she should have won for To Die For. From what I can recall, it's about Virginia Wolfe writing Mrs. Dalloway, Meryl Streep's character is living Mrs. Dalloway's day, and Ed Harris is around being surly and dying of AIDS. He kills himself partway through. We were so jealous. I think Julianne Moore was in there somewhere as well. Perhaps in flashbacks as the mother of the the bitter guy? I refuse to give this movie one more second of my life by checking IMDb. If Moore was there, I'm sure she was crying. It's how she do. We saw The Hours at the local art house theatre and the place was full. Kidman's ludicrous prosthetic nose set a bad tone and it went downhill from there. I hold Meryl Streep personally responsible for keeping me awake. She was the only good part of the movie, but she wasn't always on screen, so just when I thought I was passed out, she pulled me back in. Stupid Streep. I spent the film in bouts of lolling hurrumphantly in my seat and praying for a lightning strike. About halfway through, Mr. Julien offered to sacrifice himself by running at the screen so that everyone could flee the theatre. He refrained, but the sentiment was appreciated. As we left 4 dog years later, we were complaining (loudly) about the movie and making the obvious joke, "The Hours? It should have been called The Centuries," and some of the other patrons gave us horrified looks as, clearly, we were philistines. It was the most enjoyable part of the movie by far. Comment Diversion topic suggestions are welcome and can be sent here

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