Box Score: Taking the leap, Part 2

Box Score is a weekly column that offers a look at sports games and the athletic side of the industry from the perspective of veteran reviewer and sports fan Richard Grisham.

These are a few of my favorite things about Japan

The Just Be Cause column has been running now for four years (thanks for reading!), and I've noticed something peculiar: how commentators are pressured to say "nice" stuff about Japan. If you don't, you get criticized for an apparent "lack of balance" — as if one has to pay homage to the gods of cultural relativism (as an outsider) or tribal commonalities (as an insider).

Patriots are NFL's 'Moneyball' team

WASHINGTON - It's advice that sounds like heresy on the gridiron: Go for it on fourth down. Try more onside kicks. Running backs don't matter much.

Unlike Patriots, NFL slow to embrace 'Moneyball'

It's advice that sounds like heresy on the gridiron: Go for it on fourth down. Try more onside kicks. Running backs don't matter much.

Projected: Romney wins Nevada GOP caucuses

Mitt Romney will win the Nevada GOP caucuses, the Las Vegas Sun projects. Even with incomplete statewide results, official figures from just over 40 percent of precincts, as well as exit polling and caucus results observed by Sun reporters, give Romney an insurmountable lead in Nevada and another victory as his bid for the Republican nomination continues to gather momentum.