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"Soccer or Nascar, It's All the Same," by Jocelyn Selim. Discover, June 2001.
"Thomas Cover analyzed how the probability of winning varies during a game and found that it unfolds in every sport as what statisticians call a `random walk', a pattern analogous to the erratic motions of molecules in the air," this article notes.
For another article on random walks, see "Scheduled Random Walks Skirt Collisions," by Ivars Peterson, Science News Online, 20 January 2001.
--- Annette Emerson
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