At the opposite extreme from Keller’s perfect toss is a completely biased toss, in which the coin stays flat while in the air. Since the coin never actually flips, it is guaranteed to land on ...

Flipping a coin in the air, catching it, ... (see Toss Out the Toss-Up: Bias in heads-or-tails). Research interest in the fairness of coin tosses goes back many years. In 1985, ...

The coin toss is something that’s always kind of taken for granted at the beginning of major football games. It’s never easy being a referee. And we got a great example of that on Sunday night ...

When the contest went to overtime, Pittsburgh’s Jerome Bettis was invited to call the coin toss in the air. Bettis said tails (or possibly “hea-tails” ).

It seems so simple, right? An NFL game starts with a coin toss, one team calls whether it'll be heads or tails and that helps decide who gets to receive the football in the first half or second.

Feb. 7 at 11:30 a.m. – Tails takes the majority of the final set and ends up as the more frequent result. The coin is going back in its case after staring at it for two hours.

He’s seen a whale toss a porpoise or a seal with its tail just a handful of times in 15 years on the water. More often, he sees orcas throw prey up using their mouths.

Tails, on the other hand, has had three separate streaks of four wins in a row. Looking at the overall results, the team that wins the coin toss has gone on to win the game 26 times and lost 32 times.

Lees said the mature son was more active than his mom, known as T10. The group watched the son slap his tail and move back and forth in the kelp. “We noticed he turned upside down and all of a sudden ...