Friday roundup: Deadspin est mort, vive Deadspin (also baseball may be dead...
This was another shitty week in what feels like an endless series of shitty weeks, but with one undeniable bright spot: On Tuesday, the former staffers of Deadspin announced the launch of Defector, a...
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UK just closed soccer stadiums to fans for virus rates that wouldn’t bat an...
Bad news if you’re an English soccer fan who was hoping to, say, check out one of those crazy high-scoring Leeds United games in person: Plans to reopen British soccer stadiums at limited capacity on...
View ArticleFriday roundup: Jaguars’ billionaire owner wants $232m in tax money, plus...
We made it another week further into the future! Sure, it’s a future that looks too much like the recent past — bad pandemic planning and stadium deals with increasingly more well-disguised subsidies —...
View ArticleFriday roundup: County might buy Richmond a minor-league ballpark, ticket...
It was a big news week, what with the Anchorage mayor who resigned after being slandered as a pedophile by the anti-masking news anchor he’d been sexting with before she was arrested and fired for...
View ArticleToday in “Is It Stupid?”: Fans to return to English sporting events
U.K. prime minster Boris Johnson has announced the end of England’s month-long second Covid lockdown, with the country set to switch to a three-tier system that will allow some fans to attend live...
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Friday roundup: Climate-doomed sports cities, a $500m video-game arena, and...
Happy Friday, everyone! If you’ve been thinking, Gee, what with vaccines rolling out and the end of the pandemic maybe finally imaginable, I could really use some other global catastrophe to experience...
View ArticleFriday roundup: NFL to shop for overseas host cities, plus the attack of the...
How’s everyone doing out there? Did you, like me, spend much of yesterday watching baseball games and wondering why MLB bothers to have mask rules if half the fans are keeping their masks off at any...
View ArticleLessons from the short, terrible life of the European Super League
I had been planning to write up something today on the plans to remake European soccer into a Super League that followed traditional American sports lines — a handful of wealthy team owners share most...
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Friday roundup: Dolan vows price hikes if he loses MSG tax break, Palm Desert...
There’s a construction crew with jackhammers outside my window digging up the exact same patch of sidewalk they spent most of last year digging up, so if you think you’re getting a clever Friday...
View ArticleFriday roundup: It was the best of summers for team owners demanding...
The calendar on my screen says it’s September, which means we made it through another summer. (Not technically until the equinox on September 23, I guess, but if Labor Day weekend doesn’t mark the end...
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