While we don't foresee beer prices ever getting any cheaper at ballparks, stadiums have smartened up to craft beer.
The Daily Meal | Posted 11.23.2011
There is no question that a hot dog is a great game day snack, but as college football fans become more food savvy, university athletic departments ar...
Stu Kreisman | Posted 05.25.2011
Almost an entire generation of potential fans in Los Angeles has been lost to soccer, basketball, the beach, going out to dinner and reading. Speaking for most of the populace, we don't miss the NFL one bit.
Brian Frederick | Posted 05.25.2011
There's a strong chance there won't be an NFL season next year. Among other things, the owners claim that the lavish new stadiums they have built are too expensive. They have only themselves to blame.
Brian Frederick | Posted 05.25.2011
If an NFL game is not sold out 72 hours prior to kickoff, league rules mandate that the game be blacked out in the local market. Last season, the NFL blacked out 22 games and this season looks worse.
Dave Zirin | Posted 05.25.2011
The leaked financial statements show how some teams, claiming poverty, demanded tax dollars for stadiums while pulling in record profits. It's a reminder that, for people in power, words like "democracy" aren't sacred values. They're punchlines.
Brian Frederick | Posted 05.25.2011
Imagine a Kansas City-owned Royals team. The team would never be in danger of being hijacked by an owner looking only at his bottom line, and the city could spend as much as it wanted to build a winning team.
Gil Laroya | Posted 11.17.2011
Rememer the good old days, when neighbors helped neighbors? When your fellow man was there to help you or to be helped by you? When we all pulled toge...
Neil K. Shenai | Posted 05.25.2011
It's hard to think that the NFL might have peaked in its popularity. But in the wake of record-shattering ratings, the NFL will have to grapple with a potentially game-arresting labor dispute.
David Berri | Posted 05.25.2011
Soccernomics explains how the lessons of Moneyball (sports teams are not completely rational) applies to the world's favorite sport.
AP | TOM HAYS and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — The government expanded a terrorism warning from transit systems to U.S. stadiums, hotels and entertainment complexes as investigator...
Myles Brand | Posted 05.25.2011
There is something very wrong taking place in sports, including college sports. Fans cheering and jeering has, in some cases, gone beyond what is tolerable.
Dave Zirin | Posted 05.25.2011
Like father, like son. Meet Merritt Paulson, the offspring of Henry Paulson. While his father is demanding $700 billion of our money to bail out the banks, Merritt wants his own little piece of our hide.
Courtney Woo | Posted 05.25.2011
Today, dozens of scalpers stood alone or in pairs inside the underground tunnel leading out of the subway to the Olympic Green Line. Some held signs asking to buy tickets, but most were looking to sell.
Dave Zirin | Posted 05.25.2011
Ralph Nader: "One reason people are attracted to sports is because things happen on the merits of coaches and players. When that trust is betrayed, you can see that there's a real letdown among the fans."
Food Republic | Posted 04.12.2012