NFL

Image by Bridget Nakamura A draft grade and a betting price are the same kind of object. Both state how confident somebody is about something that has not happened yet, and both get marked in public once it does. Only one of them prints the cost of disagreeing. A B-plus on a second round pick…

  Something strange is happening on the training grounds of England’s elite clubs. Coaches are poring over NFL film, studying rub routes and pick plays. Players are practicing choreographed movements that look suspiciously like wide receiver stacks. The two sports, separated by an ocean and a century of divergent evolution, are converging in ways that…