Moneyball

Tracking the CFL’s longest yard

Canadian football’s chief statistician is reconstructing the league’s history, one play at a time

Cass Sunstein and the power of ‘nudge’

Obama’s ‘invisible hand’ talks ‘regulatory moneyball’  and the potential of policy based on data-driven, cost-benefit analysis

Why Hollywood needs a new set of stats to calculate stars’ pay

You could call is ‘the Moneyball’ approach

TIFF 2012: Everybody loves a good sports movie

This year, Venus and Serena come to the big screen

Backroom brains: first ‘Moneyball,’ now hardball in ‘Ides of March’

Clooney and Pitt may be branded as glamour boys, but their real romance is with intelligence

The real festival stars

The real festival stars

Now that the circus act has left Toronto, our critic picks the films that are bound for glory

Flashback to TIFF2011: Buttonholing Brad Pitt 2.0

We lob that same softball question at Moneyball’s big-money player; Jonah Hill talks about his underdog status, and Philip Seymour Hoffman reminds us that no actor getting work in Hollywood is an “underdog”

‘What’s your favourite sports movie?’

At TIFF2011, we snagged Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie on the red carpet. Sorta.

Let’s get this party started

Finally—the red carpets come out tonight

TIFF sports: Brad Pitt hits a homer; ex-Hab hits doc rehab

Pitt finally shines with the lustre of a latter-day Warren Beatty or Robert Redford

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The secret weapon

Can an anonymous stats guru turn the Blue Jays around?