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Unpaid Water Bills Briefly Put Ravens And Orioles Stadiums In Jeopardy
Baltimore held its annual tax sale earlier this week, where bidders could vie for the right to take on unpaid taxes and water bills from property owners in exchange for the right to charge those owners interest or possibly foreclose on property if the bills remain unpaid. In theory, this allows the ...
The Braves Will Wring An Extra $30 Million Out Of Taxpayers For Traffic Control
The Atlanta Braves began this season playing in a shiny new stadium located out in Cobb County. The new ballpark cost local taxpayers nearly $400 million, and at one point, the county was forced to raise taxes to pay for public parks because they’d overpaid so severely for the stadium, which is alre...
This Is The Saddest Attempted Stadium Grift I've Ever Seen<em></em><em></em>
Earlier this week, the NCAA announced that the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments will be returning in 2022 to Cincinnati, Ohio, for the first time in over 30 years. The bid to bring back first- and second-round games was won by the owners of the former Riverfront Coliseum, the largest indoor ...
Florida's Go-To Stadium Economist Is A Hack, A Shill, And Also Not An Economist<em></em>
If you are even a casual Deadspin reader, you know a couple of truths: Stadiums and arenas provide little-to-no economic benefit to their communities, and studies written to support public funding for stadiums and arenas are almost universally bogus. Tampa CBS-affiliate WTSP found a frightening coll...
Joe Louis Arena Was Crude And Perfect
Whenever I feel exhausted or beat down, I hop on Youtube and watch Darren McCarty drop a natural hat trick on Patrick Roy....
Oakland Taxpayers Will Still Be On The Hook For $163 Million After The Raiders And Warriors Leave<em></em><em></em><em></em>
When the city of Oakland brought the Raiders back from Los Angeles in 1995, then-mayor Elihu Harris enticed Al Davis with $200 million in improvements to the Oakland Coliseum. The city paid for the construction with taxpayer-backed bonds, and their initial plan was to pay off the bond by selling per...
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Report: Arizona Coyotes Exploring Possible Relocation To The Pacific Northwest [Update]
The Arizona Coyotes are not happy with their situation in Glendale. The team had the framework of a plan to move to Tempe until late last week, when Arizona State pulled out of a potential deal. Taxpayers still owe $150 million on the Coyotes’ 14-year-old stadium, but owner Anthony LeBlanc is going ...
Sacramento's MLS Bid Possibly Derailed By Last-Second Ownership Coup
Of the 12 cities that formally applied to be part of the next round of MLS expansion today, Sacramento has perhaps the strongest case. Or at least they did, until its team’s owner made a bid that possibly excluded the city’s highly successful team....
Electricity Turned Off At Rio's Maracanã Stadium After Olympic Organizers Can't Pay Bill<em></em>
Two weeks ago we wrote about the decaying state of Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic facilities and noted that the Maracanã stadium, despite missing seats and dealing with a mold problem, was still hosting club soccer. The stadium hosted the opening and closing ceremonies, and it’s one of the most famous st...
Report: The Chargers Are Finally Announcing That They'll Head To L.A.
I hope you enjoyed last season’s dose of terrible football and unlivable stadium conditions, Los Angeles residents, because you’re in for twice the fun next season! ...
The Premier League Should Bring Back Standing Sections
The introduction of safe standing was on the agenda at a Premier League meeting today, and reports coming out of it were cautiously optimistic that it could be introduced to the Premier League in the not-so-distant future. That would be a great thing for both fans who attend games and those who watc...
Arlington Voters Approve Hundreds Of Millions In Public Money For New Rangers Ballpark
By a significant margin, voters in Arlington, Texas, approved public funding for a billion-dollar stadium with a retractable roof to replace the Rangers’ 22-year-old ballpark. ...
White Sox Didn't Want Giant Downward Arrow On Their Stadium; Corporate Sponsor Said "Too Bad"
When the White Sox announced a new, 13-year naming rights deal for their stadium (which you can continue to call whatever you’d like), the jokes were plentiful and justified: The name is awkward and bland, and could they really not do better than a medium-sized mortgage lender? But judgment was larg...
Las Vegas And The Raiders Are Still Trying To Manipulate Each Other
The deal to provide the Oakland Raiders with a record $750 million in public money toward a new stadium in Las Vegas is done. But the rich assholes who want to savor the spoils still have a lot to play for....
Chris Hansen Offers To Build Seattle An NBA Arena Without Public Funding
On Thursday, the Sacramento Kings will play their first game in a new arena that the city chipped in $255 million to build. They scraped together that money in 2013 in order to win an arms race with billionaire Chris Hansen and the city of Seattle. Hansen’s offer to the Maloof family was $39 million...
NFL Stadium Deal Approved By Nevada State Assembly
On Tuesday evening, the Nevada Senate approved a bill that would raise taxes to help pay for an NFL stadium. SB1 went to the state Assembly, which passed it with a 28-13 vote this afternoon. The Senate then approved a version of the bill with a few amendments added. When Nevada governor Brian Sando...
Nevada State Senate Passes Bill Raising Taxes To Fund NFL Stadium
The Raiders’ plan to relocate to Las Vegas with the help of $750 million in public money got past the state senate today. The Nevada senate voted 16-5 in favor of Bill 1, which will raise room taxes in Clark County to help pay for the stadium. This does not mean, however, that excess money would sim...
D.C. City Council Owns Self
“What have you done for us, D.C. City Council?” asked the Nationals fan. “Well,” said the City Council, “we’ve ponied up over $700 million dollars to buy a stadium for a billionaire.”...
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The Fan Experience At The Rams' Stadium Sounded Like Hell [Update]
The L.A. Coliseum, current home of the Los Angeles Rams, has hosted two preseason games and one regular-season NFL game, and it’s already emerging as the most fan-hostile building in the NFL. Impressive!...
Can You Find Our Heartfelt Tribute To The Minnesota Vikings Outside Their New Stadium?
On Sunday night, the Minnesota Vikings will play their first regular season home game at their billion-dollar stadium in downtown Minneapolis. To celebrate, the team plans a full afternoon of festivities outside the venue and a Super Bowl-style extended halftime show at the game itself, with perform...