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Where Do The Islanders Belong? | Deadspin

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Neil deMause

The New York Islanders have had one of the odder trajectories of any pro sports franchise. Winners of four straight Stanley Cups within 11 years of arriving on Long Island as the NHL’s protection against WHA incursion into the New … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Hockey

Is The New $1 Billion NY Islanders Development About To Get Amazon’d? | Gothamist

Posted on February 26, 2019 by Neil deMause

Even as the New York Islanders confuse their fans with plans to play some home playoff games in Nassau County and some in Brooklyn, the team’s ownership has been quietly moving ahead with plans to build a new arena halfway … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Hockey, Long Island, Stadiums and Arenas

What’s The Matter With Tampa Bay? | Deadspin

Posted on February 12, 2019 by Neil deMause

It’s not like everyone hadn’t been thinking it, but it took Tommy Pham to mention the elephant in the room. The outfielder, who one year earlier had celebrated his 6-WAR season in his first year as a starter at age … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Baseball

Baseball Doesn’t Need Collusion To Turn Off The Hot Stove | Deadspin

Posted on January 14, 2019 by Neil deMause

The baseball panic is rising. With every additional day that Bryce Harper and Manny Machado go unsigned—and Dallas Keuchel and Mike Moustakas and A.J. Pollock and Craig Kimbrel—the drumbeat strengthens: Something is wrong here. After all, as has been pointed … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Baseball

How A Mythical Soccer Stadium Became Queens’ Biggest Political Futbol | Gothamist

Posted on January 8, 2019 by Neil deMause

Willets Point, the warren of auto-repair shops that for generations sat on a muddy peninsula between the Mets’ ballpark and Flushing Creek, has been targeted for an overhaul ever since “the Mets’ ballpark” still meant Shea Stadium. When the Bloomberg … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Development, Queens, Soccer, Stadiums and Arenas

Nobody Wants To Host The Olympics Anymore | Deadspin

Posted on December 26, 2018 by Neil deMause

The 2026 Winter Olympics will be held, somewhere. That’s about the only thing we can say for certain, six months before the International Olympic Committee is due to announce who the host city will be. One potential candidate, Calgary, took … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Olympics

Amazon’s Ransom Vs. Stadium Deals: Which Is Worse? | Deadspin

Posted on November 16, 2018 by Neil deMause

Four billion dollars, I think we can all agree, is a lot of money. It’s more than the combined annual budgets of Barbados, Bermuda, and Belize. It’s enough to buy a few dozen private Caribbean islands. It’s two Giancarlo Stantons, … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Corporate Subsidies, Stadiums and Arenas

MLB Expansion Is Probably Inevitable, But Where And When? | Deadspin

Posted on November 6, 2018 by Neil deMause

Attendance and World Series TV ratings may be down, but baseball fever is alive and well in cities without the erstwhile national pastime. ExposNation says the time is now! Portland’s wannabe owner took Russell Wilson and Ciara on a helicopter … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Baseball

What If NYC Evicted Madison Square Garden? | Gothamist

Posted on October 23, 2018 by Neil deMause

Now that the Knicks have finally gotten their latest season of misery underway — they had a bit of a speed bump in beating the Hawks on opening night, but the Nets, Celtics, and Bucks soon restored order to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, New York City, Stadiums and Arenas, Traffic and Transit

What Can We Learn From Four Stadium Deals That Don’t Suck? | Deadspin

Posted on October 11, 2018 by Neil deMause

Whenever professional economists are asked about stadium and arena deals, they invariably explain, for the hundredth time, that these “almost never” work out to the benefit of the public. (Look, here are a bunch saying so just a few weeks … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Stadiums and Arenas

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