"The pattern set over the past few decades has held: Once a ball is kicked, fans are swept away in the excitement and romance of the World Cup." www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
If you regret missing out on the 1899 Cleveland Spiders, can I interest you in a trip to Staten Island? defector.com/a-front-row-...
A Front-Row Seat To The Worst Team In Pro Baseball | Defector
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — If you regret that you never got a chance to see the 1899 Cleveland Spiders, the losingest team in MLB history, can I interest you in a trip to Staten Island? No wait, come back....
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Paraguay’s electricity mix is 100% renewable, powered almost entirely by large-scale hydroelectric.
The USMNT’s World Cup begins tonight, but the backstory begins two years ago with the disastrous Copa America showing and some fed up (and influential) fans in a chat group:🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The Hedge Fund Manager Behind US Soccer’s Bid for World Cup Glory
Scott Goodwin’s path to becoming a major donor to US Soccer began with an offhand text to friends in the summer of 2024. Now was the chance, he told them, to get a better men’s national team head coac...
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The USMNT’s World Cup begins tonight, but the backstory begins two years ago with the disastrous Copa America showing and some fed up (and influential) fans in a chat group:🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The Hedge Fund Manager Behind US Soccer’s Bid for World Cup Glory
Scott Goodwin’s path to becoming a major donor to US Soccer began with an offhand text to friends in the summer of 2024. Now was the chance, he told them, to get a better men’s national team head coac...
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Inside the chat group that brought Pochettino to the USMNT: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The Hedge Fund Manager Behind US Soccer’s Bid for World Cup Glory
Scott Goodwin’s path to becoming a major donor to US Soccer began with an offhand text to friends in the summer of 2024. Now was the chance, he told them, to get a better men’s national team head coac...
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Inside the chat group that brought Pochettino to the USMNT: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The Hedge Fund Manager Behind US Soccer’s Bid for World Cup Glory
Scott Goodwin’s path to becoming a major donor to US Soccer began with an offhand text to friends in the summer of 2024. Now was the chance, he told them, to get a better men’s national team head coac...
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"Over the past 15 years, Bennett, a 55-year-old Liverpool native with a bald head and a light stubble of beard, has turned his enthusiasm for soccer into a small media empire with more than 100 employees and tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue"
Men in Blazers Is Coming to Take Over the World Cup
They’re touring the US, hyping up the tournament with big sponsors and home field advantage.
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President Trump said Friday that Major League Baseball should have added a salary cap "a long time ago." "Don't they sort of have one?" The president has picked a side in baseball's labor talks: the owners'. www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...
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And as long as we are talking draft reform, why even bother with a draft? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The NBA Draft Is Bad for Business
Too many teams lost too many games in pursuit of potentially transformative players.
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Since MLB’s salary cap proposal is in the news, a reminder that fans actually enjoy dynasties: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The Dodgers Are Annoying, Greedy—And Good for Baseball
“Competitive balance” is just a cry for owners to grab more money.
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Not losing enough money on parlay bets? Try “combo” trades: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Prediction Market Bettors Lagging Sports Gamblers, Citizens Says
Traders on prediction markets fare worse than traditional sports bettors on increasingly popular multi-leg wagers, according to an analysis by Citizens.
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Zohran Mamdani on Arsenal is hilarious and touching in equal measure www.nytimes.com/athletic/731...
Zohran Mamdani: For Arsenal, the nostalgia of the past has become the beauty of the present (Gift Article)
Arsenal has long been a passion for Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City. Here, he explains what the Premier League champions mean to him
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Ira Boudway of Bloomberg argues we should abolish the NBA draft! As noted in the story, I argue that any reward for losing will likely result in more losing. And getting rid of the draft forces teams to think harder about how they want to build a team. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The NBA Draft Is Bad for Business
Too many teams lost too many games in pursuit of potentially transformative players.
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Just leaving it there before retiring: the over-ruling of the penalty awarded for the foul on Eberechi Eze is incomprehensible. Why VAR intervenes is a mystery. Why the referee does not ask his VAR team if they're joking is another one. I'd say the same if Dominic Solanke, not Eze, had been fouled.
The time Frank Viola got tossed for arguing with the robot ump. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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hard agree www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Universities Try to Maintain Secrecy on How They Pay Athletes
Bloomberg asked more than four dozen public universities to disclose details of their spending on student athletes and got little back.
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Matt Brown@mattbrown.bsky.social · 4mo agoMatt is 100% on the money here. Keeping athlete comp data secret only benefits agents. It hurts taxpayers, hurts (on the aggregate) athletes, hurts management, hurts researchers, and perpetuates lousy policy www.nytimes.com/athletic/714...
Now that March Madness has properly begun, re-upping this one on how the tournament’s folk heroes cash in on their moment of fame. This is how Jack Gohlke accidentally negotiated $20,000 out of Buffalo Wild Wings in 2024: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Or “How Jack Gohlke accidentally negotiated $20,000 out of Buffalo Wild Wings”
"There’s no time to be fussy because the players’ schedules are packed and the tournament’s viral moments fade quickly. “If anything requires approvals, legal reviews or custom creative, it’s already too slow,” Denton says."
The Real March Madness Is the Corporate Race to Ink Viral Stars
In this peculiar corner of the influencer economy, speed is what wins.
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