The New York Times

Why Keeping Score Isn’t Fun Anymore

In a new book, C. Thi Nguyen looks to his personal passions — from video games to yo-yoing — to illuminate the downside of our increasingly gamified world. Why in some games is it fun and satisfying ...
NCAA

2025 NCAA bracket: Scores, stats for March Madness men's tournament

No. 1 seed Florida beat No. 1 Houston 65-63 to win the program's third national title — and first since winning back-to-back championships in 2006 and 2007. Walter Clayton Jr. was named Most ...
The Washington Post

A philosopher’s case for living playfully without keeping score

Midway through a game of chess, you find yourself flummoxed. You are in a losing position; you are down a pawn, and you worry that your opponent is on the cusp of cornering your king. You stare at the ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Woo, M., Reiter, J.P. and Karr, A.F. (2008) Estimation of Propensity Scores Using Generalized Additive Models. Statistics in Medicine, 27, 3805-3816.

ABSTRACT: Background: Propensity score methods have become a cornerstone of modern causal inference, enabling researchers to approximate the conditions of randomized experiments in observational ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Comparative Performance of Propensity Score Methods for Clinical Multi-Group Data: Balancing Confounders and Estimating Treatment Effects ()

1 Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China. 2 School of International Education, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China. 3 Guangdong ...
The Hill

Freedom Caucus members stall House floor action over SCORE Act

A handful of members in the House Freedom Caucus on Tuesday delayed action in the House in protest of a bill that regulates compensation college athletes receive based on their name, image and ...
NCAA

College football Week 10: Scores, Top 25 rankings, highlights, results

College football fans, you thought we were finished? We highlighted three games to keep an eye on last evening, and now that it’s Sunday morning, it’s time to recap those matchups. They all turned out ...
Austin American-Statesman

High school football: Live scores from first round of 2025 UIL playoffs in Texas

The road to the UIL title games at AT&T Stadium in Arlington continues tonight, Nov. 14, 2025. The bulk of the first-round games gets underway Friday, but there were some area games Thursday. For live ...
ahajournals.org

Discharge Neurological Deficit as a Predictor of Early Stroke Recurrence: A Nationwide Registry‐Based Propensity‐Matched Study

Early stroke recurrence is a significant risk for survivors of ischemic stroke. Although admission severity is commonly used in prognosis, the predictive value of residual neurological deficits at ...
The Lancet

Oral anticoagulant reversal and mortality in trauma patients: a multicentre propensity score–matched cohort study

aDepartment of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, AP-HP, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France bDepartment of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Caen University Hospital, and Université Caen ...
The New York Times

Division I conference commissioners send letter to Congress, push for passage of SCORE Act

Conference leaders and the NCAA have long pushed for a federal law to regulate NIL compensation for players. Alex Wroblewski / AFP via Getty Images The commissioners of 31 Division I conferences sent ...