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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 advantage? How inbred is a thoroughbred horse? Why should your team never wear black? Why do women tennis players grunt? Drawing 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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