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Hysterics hitting eleven.
Hysterics hitting eleven.
Voters supported funding parks, but not a billionaire's ballpark.
Sportswriter Robert Lipsyte on the Greatest's massive, contradictory legacy in politics and culture.
The centerpiece of Hartford's $400 million development misses another deadline.
A regular reminder to never publicly finance pro sports teams' real estate.
Small-town Southern taxpayers subsidize minor league ballparks for baseball's worst team.
New York Daily News irresponsibly reports that Cub Jason Heyward was 'blitzed with N-word taunts from Cardinals fans'
School also forces students to pay millions in athletic fees to cover programs.
Perpetually broke Hartford bets big-and stupid-on minor-league ballpark.
Liberty suffers another blow in Chicago 'for the children.'
You are now free to beat each other up (consensually) around the country.
DraftKings, FanDuel hoping for legislation to give them permission to exist.
Listen to Anthony Fisher and Matt Welch talk about the bloody intersection between policy and sports on Sirius XM channel 121 at noon ET
College basketball's tournament is compelling, but ethically compromised.
Forty million Americans will bet on the college basketball tourney even though it's not really legal.
Virginia is the first state to put fantasy sports legislation before a governor.
Says death of fantasy sports industry greatly exaggerated.
Baseball's ultimate capitalists don't like fans buying tickets for the prices they're actually worth on Stubhub.
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.
A tale of football, lawyers, and videotape
Activists and politicians warn of a roving horde of "trafficked" prostitutes that researchers just can't find.
How the NFL uses a taxpayer-funded tourist agency to subsidize its all-star game.
But the NCAA-and student-athletes getting cut out of record profits-aren't laughing.
When you've built a lead too big to fail, sometimes you play "butt-tight."
If you get angry over subsidies for pro sports teams, don't look at your alma mater's financials.
Politicians and developers stole a neighborhood to build it, but it loses money and revitalized nothing.
Pro football lives on massive consumption of painkillers, but still bans therapeutic use of pot.
Fans hate seeing superstars turn mortal, but they love fond farewells.
It's time to rethink the stigma surrounding this "performance-enhancing drug."
California attorney general asked to clamp down on online sports games
A scandal sparks a new effort to regulate daily fantasy sports.
There are no good economic arguments and even fewer cultural ones to support handouts to billionaire team owners.
Governments want to ban FanDuel and DraftKings, yet the lotteries they operate are among the worst ripoffs in gambling.
Virtually no Division I programs pay for themselves, with many getting half their revenue from students and taxpayers.
'We have people out of work. We have ISIS and al Qaeda attacking us. And we're talking about fantasy football?'
Regulators want their own piece of the action at FanDuel and DraftKings. But if they win, consumers will be the biggest losers.
There's always a way around.
Requires Draft Kings, FanDuel to get gaming licenses to operate in state