Nate Silver doesn’t need to apologize, since Donald Trump’s nomination was a long shot

Nate Silver, Donald Trump (Credit: MSNBC/Reuters/Brian Snyder/Photo montage by Salon)
American sports fans who don’t pay much attention to soccer might not know it, but 2016 was the year of what was likely the greatest sports upset of all time: Leicester City overcoming 5000-to-1 odds to win the English Premier League title. It’s the equivalent of a middling college basketball team winning the NBA championship. It was an event that caused Leicester City fans