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    Top 10 sportspeople of the 2000s: 6. Michael Schumacher
    If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. or you may want to sign up to our Email list. and win great prizes. Thanks for visiting!Coming in at number 6 for the best sportsperson of the last decade is German Formula One racing legend Michael Schumacher. According to the F1 website, “Statistically, [Schumacher] is the greatest driver the sport has...
    by at November 27th, 2009 at 11:11 am
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    Top 10 sportspeople of the 2000s: 7. Zinedine Zidane
    Coming in at number 7 for the best sportsperson of the last decade is French soccer champion Zinedine Zidane. How could one possibly have a top 10 sportspeople of the decade list without a soccer player, easily the most popular sport in the world. And French legend Zidane has been the best player, in our opinion, over the span of 2000 to 2010. When most people think about...
    by at November 26th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
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    Top 10 sportspeople of the 2000s: 8. Serena Williams
    Coming in at number 8 for the best sportsperson of the last decade is American tennis ace Serena Williams. Currently ranked number one in the world, Serena Williams is the younger sister of Venus who has dominated the female tennis tour in the 2000s. In total she has won a staggering 23 grand slams and 2 Olympic gold medals. Ten of these grand slams have been in the last...
    by at November 25th, 2009 at 11:11 am
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    Top 10 sportspeople of the 2000s: 9. Kenenisa Bekele
    Coming in at number 9 for the best sportsperson of the last decade is Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele. Ever since the movie The gods must be crazy did the world wake up to the fact that the Africans have a special ability to run, run quick, and run very long distances. In the 1990’s, Ethiopian long distance runner Haile Gebrselassie made himself an instant star, climaxing...
    by at November 24th, 2009 at 10:11 am
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    Top 10 sportspeople of the 2000s: 10. Shaquille O’Neal
    Coming in at number 10 for the best sportsperson of the last decade is American Basketball Player Shaquille O’Neal. No player in basketball has had the same influence as the “shaq” in the past ten years. Standing at a daunting 7 foot 1 (216 cm) and weighing 325 pounds (147kg), the shaq is one of the biggest players to play the game. Starting the 2000s playing for...
    by at November 23rd, 2009 at 10:11 am
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    Top 10 sportspeople of the 2000s
    Federer? Tiger Woods? Tendulkar? Marion Jones? Who do you think will make the top 10 sportspeople of the last ten years? Sportpunter will be counting down the list. We are looking at all sports from Javelin to Judo, from baseball to boxing. We’ve looked deep and hard, weighing up all the variables using Sportpunter’s latest mathematical technique to come up...
    by at November 19th, 2009 at 01:11 pm
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    How to Guide: Travel the world and still stay connected to the Internet
    My French Impersonation How I travelled the world and still managed to make a great living I have three major loves. In no particular order they are sports, travel and technology. Combine these three amazing things and you get this article. For the past 2 years I have been travelling the world while still being able to place all my bets and stay connected to the internet,...
    by at November 12th, 2009 at 04:11 pm
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    Melbourne Cup Probabilities
    Well the Melbourne Cup is soon on us. Come Tuesday at 3pm they will all be in full gallop. So, I thought I had to whip up something for the special event. Whilst my horse racing model might soon be on the cards here at Sportpunter, the best I can do at the moment is give you the probability of each horse finishing first, second, third, and for some most importantly, last. The...
    by at November 2nd, 2009 at 12:11 pm
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    Match fixing in soccer? Surely not!
    It was the final week of the season, and top spot of the Brazilian state League Championship were all but sown up….but not until this happened: Needing to win 11-0 to clinch promotion from the Second Division, Viana found themselves leading Chapadinha by just 2-0 with 81 minutes played. A bit of fatigue might have been setting in, of course, but surely not enough to...
    by at November 2nd, 2009 at 08:11 am
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    Models…..What are they and what are they good for? – Part 2
    In the last article about sports models I talked about how as human beings we can often find patterns in randomness. I want to talk a little more about this in the real world. One of my friends recently had a baby which they named “Jordan”. Its cool to give surnames as first names at the moment, and even better it gives me an excuse to post a picture of the great man...
    by at October 26th, 2009 at 02:10 pm
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