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It's over! The possibility of Hollywood studios ever losing money again is over for good! And it's all thanks to a Camel-smoking, Dr Pepper–drinking ex-SUNY statistics professor named Vinny Bruzzese. As the New York Times explains this morning,...

There are baseball books that normal people buy, and then there are baseball books that obsessive, maniacal baseball lovers buy. Let's put it this way — if you're on a date with someone who has Moneyball or Summer of '49 on his or her shelf, yo...

The hot stove is cooking, so it's time for the delicate process of rating MLB's top 50 most valuable assets.

If you're following the election, you've probably noticed a shooting war involving Nate Silver, whom sportswriting lost to politics back in 2008. The issue at stake is similar to the one sportswriters slogged through around the time of Moneyball &#82...

Editor's note: David Mitchell's "unadaptable" novel Cloud Atlas comes to the big screen this week courtesy of the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, and while the early word is mostly positive, the potential for a big-budget train wreck remains considerable....

Four games. Twelve hours of glorious playoff baseball. Here's what went down: THE BINDER GETS IT RIGHT If you ever want to drill down to the essence of Moneyball, there's a single mantra that gets spouted in both dugouts and boardrooms. Greg Ma...

In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Tuesday. Travis Blackley allowed just one run over six innings as the A's beat the Rangers 3-1 to move into a tie atop the AL West with just one game remaining. T...

Killing Them Softly (October 19) Silver: Brad Pitt should just forget about mass-appeal fare like Moneyball and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. He's so perfectly suited for characters that exist on the fringes — 12 Monkeys, Fight Club...

For those of you who are Moneyball’ed to death and thought the sun had set on the "Billy Beane as iconoclastic bad-boy genius" era, I've got some bad news: The Oakland A's are the spunky, red-hot team of the moment, and after a four-game sweep ...

After a star turn, Billy Beane and the Oakland A's are still trying to win an unfair game.

The baseball season is a long and lonely road. To preserve his sanity, Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter keeps a diary. These are excerpts from The Captain's private journal. Wednesday, April 18: vs. Minnesota April baseball is always a little roug...

The Reds recently gave Joey Votto 225 million reasons to stay in Ohio. Of course, the general consensus of this deal, and the Brandon Phillips one that followed, was that the Reds would one day regret it. Votto might have MVP credentials, but he p...

The Academy Awards spectacular is only a few nights away, and the big question on everyone's mind is: Who am I wearing? (That's a secret between me and my wardrobe dude, Rodney.) What I can tell you is how to make a few jermajesties off the gala ev...

If I were feeling less generous and more cynical on this holiest of all Oscar-calendar mornings, I might say that to decipher this year's Academy Awards contest, we need only look for inspiration to the GOP presidential race. The Artist is Mitt Romne...

I'd like to thank the Academy for throwing an extra mystery at those of us who treat predicting the Oscars as something between a hobby and a blood sport: This year, we have to figure out not only which movies will be nominated, but how many. After c...

It's over. No more surges or collapses, no more micro-measurements of momentum, no more fingers to the wind. Voting for the Oscar nominations has closed, and the results will be announced bright and early on Tuesday, January 24, so every day this wee...