Stumped!: The Sports Fans Book of Answers

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The world of sports has a singular capacity to generate endless disputes which, if left unsettled, can drive a grown man to distraction and create rifts between even the firmest of friends.Fear not. Stumped! The Sports Fan's Book of Answers is here to save us.What accounts for home advantageHow inbred is a thoroughbred horseWhy should your team never wear blackWhy do women tennis players gruntDrawing on studies by historians, philosophers, medics, scientists, statisticians - and brining a healthy amount of common sense to bare - Nicholas Hobbes addresses the whys, whats and hows so you don't have to.Stumped: it's not the questions you ask but the answers you give that count.

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Nicholas Hobbes is a writer living in London and the author of Essential Militaria and England: 1,000 Things You Need to Know (Atlantic Books, 2003 and 2006).