Nine years ago, Seattle’s sports scene was in about as dire circumstances as a city can get. The owner of the SuperSonics, Starbucks mogul Howard Schultz, had thrown a hissy fit over Washington’s refusal to gift him $220 million to … Continue reading
If like any red-blooded American capitalist you measure success by growth, these are boom times for Major League Soccer. North America’s top soccer league has gone from just 10 teams in 2004 to a whopping 22, with two more clubs … Continue reading
Tomorrow night’s MLB All-Star Game in Miami will be, above all else, a celebration of shattered hopes and dreams: The raison d’etre for Miami being awarded the game—the hulking, endomed Marlins Park which opened in 2012 after a many-year wait—remains … Continue reading
Of the many, many strong feelings people have about the looming Trump administration, few are related to potential infrastructure policy. In fact, the president-elect’s position on the matter—as he inimitably declared in his acceptance speech, “We’re going to rebuild our … Continue reading
When the New York Islanders announced they were moving to Brooklyn four years ago, plenty of eyebrows went up across the sports world. Not only was this a team so associated with Long Island that it was already named after … Continue reading
On Friday, Bloomberg News issued a report—still officially unconfirmed, but rumored to have been in the works for months earlier—that Disney, owners of ESPN and ABC and finders of Dory, had agreed to buy a one-third stake of BAM Tech, … Continue reading
Yes, it’s really happening: the National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman really held a press conference today at a casino—hint, hint—in which he announced that for the first time in 17 years, the league will be expanding in 2017. And … Continue reading
The Atlanta Braves are moving to a new ballpark next spring, and … and really, that’s it as far as the good news goes. The latest debacle to emerge from the team’s abrupt decision to abandon their 20-year-old downtown stadium … Continue reading
When rumors first began to spread last week that Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis was set to commit to moving his team to Las Vegas if elected officials there approved a new NFL-sized stadium, the whole concept seemed a little—what’s … Continue reading
The Arizona Diamondbacks opened their home season last night at Chase Field, one of the flagship venues of the modern stadium era, with its retractable roof and a swimming pool beyond the outfield fence and—oh, wait, I’m sorry, this is … Continue reading