Oh 2008, what a year! Michael Phelps won 8 gold medals at the Summer Olympics in China, a proton beam was circulated for the first time in the Large Hadron Collider, and it seemed every offense in the NFL wanted …

A magician never reveals his tricks. But someone else’s are fair game and David Copperfield told us how football’s most magical plays work. And while the world’s greatest magician can’t make the officiating hullabaloo disappear, he did explain how offensive …