Atlanta Braves Are a Terrible Baseball Team, But "A Fairly Major Real Estate Business"
Small-town Southern taxpayers subsidize minor league ballparks for baseball's worst team.
Sports
It Takes Exactly Four Tweets From Non-Eyewitnesses to Tar a City as Racist
New York Daily News irresponsibly reports that Cub Jason Heyward was 'blitzed with N-word taunts from Cardinals fans'
Univ. of Georgia Stymies Open-Records Law in Pursuit of NCAA Titles
School also forces students to pay millions in athletic fees to cover programs.
Another Troubled City, Another Subsidized Stadium To the Rescue
Perpetually broke Hartford bets big-and stupid-on minor-league ballpark.
Knocking Smokeless Tobacco Out of the Ballpark
Liberty suffers another blow in Chicago 'for the children.'
New York Is the Last State to End Ban on MMA Fighting Events
You are now free to beat each other up (consensually) around the country.
The Nanny Always Wins: Daily Fantasy Sports Stop Operations in New York
DraftKings, FanDuel hoping for legislation to give them permission to exist.
You Put Your Politics Into My Sports!
Listen to Anthony Fisher and Matt Welch talk about the bloody intersection between policy and sports on Sirius XM channel 121 at noon ET
NCAA Exploits its Players, But Who Doesn't Love Some March Madness Bracketology?
College basketball's tournament is compelling, but ethically compromised.
March Madness Is Here! Let's All Pretend We Don't Gamble.
Forty million Americans will bet on the college basketball tourney even though it's not really legal.
Virginia General Assembly Approves Guidelines for Fantasy Sports
Virginia is the first state to put fantasy sports legislation before a governor.
Mark Cuban Tells Politicians "Good Luck" Getting Rid of Fantasy Sports
Says death of fantasy sports industry greatly exaggerated.
New York Yankees Don't Understand The Free Market
Baseball's ultimate capitalists don't like fans buying tickets for the prices they're actually worth on Stubhub.
Is Playing Daily Fantasy Sports Any Different From Playing Powerball?
The debate surrounding daily fantasy sports isn't about skill or chance, but evidence that our psuedo-ban on sports gambling is hypocritical and ineffective.
There's Just One Known Recording of the First Super Bowl Broadcast, and the NFL Wants to Keep a Man From Selling It
A tale of football, lawyers, and videotape
There's No Tidal Wave of Sex Slaves Descending on the Super Bowl
Activists and politicians warn of a roving horde of "trafficked" prostitutes that researchers just can't find.
The Pro Bowl Scam
How the NFL uses a taxpayer-funded tourist agency to subsidize its all-star game.
Shaq Jokes About All the Money He Got as a College Player at LSU
But the NCAA-and student-athletes getting cut out of record profits-aren't laughing.
Cam Newton Unwittingly Coined a Phrase That's Apt for Politics, Life and Sports
When you've built a lead too big to fail, sometimes you play "butt-tight."
Yes, College Athletes Should Be Paid, But Not by Students & Taxpayers
If you get angry over subsidies for pro sports teams, don't look at your alma mater's financials.
Brooklyn's Barclays Center is an Eminent Domain-Created Failure
Politicians and developers stole a neighborhood to build it, but it loses money and revitalized nothing.
NFL Should Permit Players to Use Medical Marijuana, Ex-Players Say
Pro football lives on massive consumption of painkillers, but still bans therapeutic use of pot.
Is Kobe Bryant's Retirement Tour Sad or Redemptive?
Fans hate seeing superstars turn mortal, but they love fond farewells.
If Peyton Manning Used HGH to Recover From a Broken Neck, Should We Really Care?
It's time to rethink the stigma surrounding this "performance-enhancing drug."
Regulation a Sure Bet for Fantasy Games
California attorney general asked to clamp down on online sports games
Is Your Fantasy Football Squad Illegal?
A scandal sparks a new effort to regulate daily fantasy sports.
Show-Me State Suckers Shell Out Super-Subsidies For NFL Rams
There are no good economic arguments and even fewer cultural ones to support handouts to billionaire team owners.
States Play Gambling Monopoly
Governments want to ban FanDuel and DraftKings, yet the lotteries they operate are among the worst ripoffs in gambling.
How Colleges Rip Off Students to Pay for Mostly Awful Sports Teams
Virtually no Division I programs pay for themselves, with many getting half their revenue from students and taxpayers.
Bush Gets Slapped Down by Christie After Calling for Fantasy Sports Regulation
'We have people out of work. We have ISIS and al Qaeda attacking us. And we're talking about fantasy football?'
Should Daily Fantasy Sports Be Regulated by the Government?
Regulators want their own piece of the action at FanDuel and DraftKings. But if they win, consumers will be the biggest losers.
The New York Times Exposes the Futile Stupidity of Banning Online Sports Betting
There's always a way around.
Nevada Goes Protectionist on Fantasy Sports Leagues
Requires Draft Kings, FanDuel to get gaming licenses to operate in state
Fantasy Sports League Employee Win Prompts Class Action Suit
Accused of misrepresenting fairness of competition
The Baseball Commissioner Who Made Bush President
The culture, politics, and economics of baseball in the Bud Selig era
Yes, Fantasy Sports Companies Are 'Regulated'
Is the problem a lack of transparency, lack of tax revenue, or sore losers?
NCAA Punishes College Athletes for Fantasy Sports Betting
For god's sake, don't pay student-athletes, or treat them like adults!
