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It’s unfair how absurd Wilt’s athleticism was. It’s also unfair that the rules held him back.

Our newest episode of Weird Rules, on the 2003 Vikings draft disaster What is “sport” without rules? Just a buncha confused-looking nincompoops in an empty void with a bunch of mismatched equipment, that’s what! The rules of a game are its bones, giving it its definition, shape and structure. But over time, as athletes continue to push against the limits of human ability, sports must evolve to keep up. Rulebooks expand, and they get more complicated and complex; the most recent version of...

Governor in eight years. whats interesting about that is that even though peter shumlin the democrat won, he did not get 50% of the vote. under vermonts state rules, that means technically the legislature picks who wins the race. thats how he got elected in the first place. two months after that, the vermont legislature did what vermonters had already done. they picked peter shumlin to be governor. the final vote in the legislature was 145-28. which means 28 people in the vermont legislature vot...