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How the NFL Fleeces Taxpayers
By GREGG EASTERBROOK TheAtlantic.com | September 18, 2013 “Taxpayers fund the stadiums, antitrust law doesn’t apply to broadcast deals, the league enjoys nonprofit status, and Commissioner Roger Goodell makes $30 million a year. It’s
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10 Things I Learned About Being a General Manager
By Scott Pioli mmqb.si.com | September 4, 2013 “1. I learned that the title “general manager” is actually a very accurate name for the role because of the wide variety of tasks you do
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Olympic Wheel of Fortune
By DAVID SEGAL NYTimes.com | August 31, 2013 “ONE of the year’s most heated competitions in all of sports will take place in a Hilton hotel conference room in Buenos Aires. But unless any
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Was ESPN sloppy, naive or compromised?
By Robert Lipsyte ESPN.com | August 25, 2013 “So what’s more damaging to a corporate image: to be considered sloppy, naïve or compromised? Or all three? You get to pick in the wake of
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College Football’s Most Dominant Player? It’s ESPN
By JAMES ANDREW MILLER, STEVE EDER and RICHARD SANDOMIR New York Times | August 24, 2013 “The nation’s annual rite of mayhem and pageantry known as the college football season begins this week, and
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Li Na, China’s Tennis Rebel
By BROOK LARMER New York Times | August 22, 2013 “The patch of Wimbledon grass known as the Graveyard of Champions was supposedly exorcised four years ago, when the blue-blazered gentlemen of the All
Read More »The Global Dominance of ESPN
DEREK THOMPSON Theatlantic.com | AUG 14 2013 “We’re not looking for niche audiences,” Skipper told me. Instead, ESPN’s flagship channel seeks to maximize the odds that whenever a middle-American male tunes in, he’ll see
Read More »College Football Encounters Its Biggest Rival: The Couch
By Brad Tuttle Time.com | August 16, 2013 “The new reality is that some of the biggest, most popular college football programs in the country can’t jack up ticket prices annually, put a decent
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America Has a Stadium Problem
By Aaron Gordon psmag.com | July 17, 2013 “Over the past 20 years, 101 new sports facilities have opened in the United States—a 90-percent replacement rate—and almost all of them have received direct public
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Keeping fans in the stands is getting harder to do
By Mark Koba CNBC.com | July 16, 2013 “Major League Baseball’s All-Star game Tuesday night is set to draw a full house. Some 45,000 people are expected to fill all the seats of Citi
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