When a series of bombs went off at the Brussels airport and in a subway station yesterday, killing 31 people and injuring more than 200, the reaction of the US press was immediate and overwhelming. Every major news outlet turned … Continue reading
It’s hard to overstate just how much the lives of sports fans have changed since StubHub was born in the year 2000. Back in the Pleistocene epoch of the 20th century, when men were men and tickets were printed on … Continue reading
With Sacramento’s new basketball arena set to open in October, local station FOX40 sent a reporter to find out what the new home of the Kings (being built at a public cost of $226 million) is doing for the city’s … Continue reading
If modern New York City has a guiding spirit, an Obi-Wan Kenobi that has helped govern our fates in mysterious ways, it may well be a building that few city residents alive today have ever set foot in. When the … Continue reading
Jacob Javits was a four-term U.S. senator from New York, a liberal Republican (he was a staunch advocate of civil rights and an early opponent of the Vietnam War) whose final political move was to run for his own seat … Continue reading
Today’s Madison Square Garden (born 1968) is now the oldest arena in both the NBA and NHL, but it almost didn’t make it to its twentieth birthday. In 1982, noting the flurry of sports teams then moving to New Jersey … Continue reading
Well, that was quite an evening. After a day of meetings—relentlessly tweeted and retweeted despite being held behind closed doors—to debate which NFL teams, if any, would be allowed to move to Los Angeles, the league’s 32 owners decided that … Continue reading
Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, who already owned 80 percent of the Brooklyn Nets and 45 percent of the Barclays Center where they play, completed his full set by buying the remaining shares of those two items from developer Bruce Ratner … Continue reading
Last winter, the process of deciding which NFL team or teams would be the first to return to Los Angeles in two decades was in shambles. St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke, having used an “all the other kids have … Continue reading
Like most years in New York City, 2015 was a bit of an odd bird. The Mets reached the World Series on the shoulders of a player who earlier in the year was pilloried for his controversial comments. There was … Continue reading