S.L. Price

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What are sports about? For those who take the matter all too seriously, the answer divides roughly between two camps, Moneyballers and Metaphorists. The first, made up of gamblers, stats freaks and those annoyed by the application of romantic gloss to any human endeavor, cares about the action itself, codified by hard numbers and the final score.