Friday roundup: $278 million in public bonds demanded for pro lacrosse...
We have many newses this week: The owners of the Chesapeake Bayhawks are proposing that Anne Arundel County, Maryland provide $278 million in county bonds and free land for a 10,000-seat … lacrosse...
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Running late on the roundup this week — I just published two new articles on the wastefulness of film tax credits and New York’s probably fruitless attempts to fight off sea level rise, plus I have...
View ArticleFriday roundup: IRS hands sports owners another tax break, A’s accused of...
Happy Friday! Here is a fatberg of stadium and arena news to clog up your weekend: San Jose Mercury News columnist Daniel Borenstein says the Oakland A’s owners could be getting a discount of between...
View ArticleFriday roundup: Lotsa soccer news, and oh yeah, saving the world
Happy global climate strike day! As kids (and their adults) take to the streets today, it’s important to keep in mind two not-contradictory-though-they-may-seem-so things: We are seriously screwed even...
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David Stern, who made sure Kings extorted Sacramento for cash instead of...
Former NBA commissioner David Stern died yesterday at age 77, three weeks after suffering a brain hemorrhage, and much of the coverage was along the lines of this: Stern, wrote NBC Sports BayArea’s...
View ArticleSeattle arena developers find loopholes to evade coronavirus construction ban
The increasingly worldwide suspension of nearly everything has finally started to hit stadium and arena construction: New York’s order on Friday banning “non-essential” construction put a halt to work...
View ArticleFriday roundup: Another Canadian sports bailout request, and everyone...
Happy May, everybody! This crisis somehow both feels like it’s speeding into the future and making time crawl — as one friend remarked yesterday, it’s like we’ve all entered an alternate universe where...
View ArticleFriday roundup: Grizzlies lease has secret out clause, judge orders do-over...
Normally the end of June is when news around here starts slowing down for the summer, but as no one needs reminding, nothing is normal anymore. There isn’t even time to get into sports leagues trying...
View ArticleFriday roundup: Jacksonville doubles down on $200m+ Jaguars subsidy, MSG...
So, yeah, some stuff happened this week, and is continuing to happen now. But let’s not let rampaging Viking cosplayers distract us from the fact that the new year has also brought a resurgence in...
View ArticleFriday roundup: Tokyo Olympics back on, NFL doesn’t understand vaccines, and...
It was yet another one of those weeks, where you finally look up from the news that’s obsessing everybody only to find that while you weren’t looking, monarch butterflies had moved to the verge of...
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