Congratulations, St. Louis! According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the city has successfully thrown enough money…
A new analysis of the deal to build a stadium for MLS’s FC Cincinnati shows it will cost taxpayers $213 million, or more than four times what was described in the 2017 agreement between city and county leaders and the team’s ownership. Even “favorable” public-private stadium deals wind up screwing taxpayers. [WCPO]
The Flames’ new arena deal, endorsed by the mayor and city council just a week before a (rubber-stamp) vote to be…
Calgary was—was—one of the success stories in the stadium scam. The city’s leadership had stood strong against a…
It is not exaggeration to say that the Cincinnati Bengals’ revised stadium lease with Hamilton County, agreed in…
Any self-respecting student of insane Machiavellian gambits should be familiar with the Madman Theory, Richard…
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Given all of the problems with the Rays—and there are many—dire situations call for nontraditional thinking. Like…
Sometime in the next few days, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb—aka the guy who took Mike Pence’s job when Pence ascended…
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Go to a New York Islanders game at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, and you will be treated to a relatively…
For sports team owners seeking new stadiums or arenas—which is to say, for sports team owners—there are certain…
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The New York Islanders have had one of the odder trajectories of any pro sports franchise. Winners of four straight…
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It’s not like everyone hadn’t been thinking it, but it took Tommy Pham to mention the elephant in the room. The…
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By a vote of 6-2, the Phoenix City Council approved public funding for renovations to the Suns’ arena and a lease…
In the nine years since Monopoly-man-come-to-life Joe Ricketts and his cartoonishly wealthy progeny purchased the…
Eventually Dan Snyder is going to get around to demanding public money for a new stadium for his crappy team, and…
Reports yesterday had Suns owner and overall dingus Robert Sarver threatening to relocate his shoddy-ass basketball…
This afternoon, the Phoenix City Council is set to vote on a mysterious bill that would authorize $150 million in…
This afternoon, Oakland City Attorney Barbara Parker announced that the city of Oakland had filed a federal…