The public should never, ever agree to finance a professional sports stadium again.

This cannot be repeated often enough.

The public should never, ever pay for a stadium or arena for a pro sports team again.

Is your city considering (or being forced to consider) paying for a new pro...

The NFL's fraud has finally been fully exposed. Behind the shield, greed trumps integrity and incompetence reigns supreme.

For months, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has spearheaded a public relations campaign designed to convince the public that the replacement officials were qualified to be working NFL games. Even after it started...

NFL opening game? Check.

Division rival? Check.

Local TV blackout? Check.

On Sunday, the NFL blacked out the opening game of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the third consecutive season. Overall, the Bucs have had 14 of their last 16 games blacked out locally.

Sunday's blackout happened despite the Bucs...

Pro football is back. But its officials are not, as anyone who has watched a preseason game can tell you.

The National Football League has locked out its officials, opting to use replacement crews instead. The league has pulled these officials from small-college conferences, high schools, and one even came...

In case you haven't been following, the NFL is currently locking out its referees and will be using replacement referees until a new collective bargaining agreement can be reached. And the two sides aren't even speaking at this point, so we could be in for a long season.

Where are...

The Arizona Cardinals appear to be the first team to make a donation to a federal Super PAC, which can raise unlimited funds from individuals, unions and corporations. There has long been a cozy relationship between sports team owners and politicians and the Cardinals recent donation to Arizona Gov....

The biggest change to the NFL's blackout policy in 40 years reportedly happened recently when owners voted to allow games to be shown in a local market if the stadium is only 85 percent full. The previous policy required 100 percent of non-premium tickets to be sold before the game...

Tuesday, the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee will meet in Washington, D.C., to hear a proposed four-team playoff plan for college football. For many fans, if the playoff plan is approved, the mere fact that we now have a "final four" of college football will sufficient to quell years of BCS...

The Atlantic's Steve Tuttle has written one of the most idiotic columns on the subject of fans since Mike Lupica wrote that "[y]ou are owed nothing in sports, no matter how much you care. You are owed nothing no matter how long you've rooted or how much you've paid...

I checked the schedule the other day to see how my fall wedding travel plans would conflict with the Washington Nationals' potential playoff games. Let me say that again -- I am actually factoring in baseball into my plans for my own wedding. (My poor fiancée. She's already had to...

Outside of Green Bay, where fans have the unique advantage of owning the team, no city has more invested in its team than New Orleans. And right now, every t-shirt store in New Orleans has one T-shirt that is prominently displayed ahead of all the others. Black with gold lettering,...

You may not know it, but the National Football League is a nonprofit organization. It may seem absurd that a collection of teams that generated at least $9 billion in revenue last season would be given tax-exempt status, but the NFL is technically classified as a 501(c)6 organization....

The most significant discussion of NFL blackouts in 40 years is taking place right now. Given the fact that the NFL's blackout rule punishes disabled, poor and elderly fans and the fact that the rule doesn't even work, it's long past time the rule was eliminated.

According to NFL rules,...

Blackouts have long frustrated sports fans, but never have they had a better chance to actually do something to end blackouts. Last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) took a major step that could have huge implications for sports fans around the country. The agency is asking for public comments...

Congress is currently weighing legislation that could have serious implications for Huffington Post, Google, Facebook and Twitter. In other words, for the very future of the Internet.

In case you're unfamiliar, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its counterpart in the Senate, PROTECT IP...

Just over 100 years ago, President Theodore Roosevelt invited football leaders from Harvard, Yale and Princeton to the White House for a summit.

"Football is on trial," he told the assembled group. "Because I believe in the game, I want to do all I can to save it."

Tuesday night was supposed to be the tip off to what the NBA said would be its "most-watched season ever on TV." Last year's Eastern Conference runners-up, the Chicago Bulls, were set to visit the NBA Champion Dallas Mavericks, while Kevin Durant and Kobe Bryant were set to square...

On Monday, the NBA announced the cancellation of the first two weeks of the 2011-12 season. It is the second time games have been cancelled in NBA Commissioner David Stern's tenure. The rift between the owners and players is so great that it's highly unlikely that there will...

In the last 20 years, the Cincinnati Bengals have only made the playoffs twice, losing in the first game both times. And those are the only two winning seasons the Bengals have had in the last 20. So it should come as no surprise that the Bengals haven't even come...

Collegiate sport has been reduced to little more than a shameless money grab. University presidents have now thrown off all pretense of preserving the historic tradition of athletic conferences in favor of the pursuit of lucrative television contracts (sometimes for themselves) for football. It's long past time Washington starts asking...