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By Samantha Talavera | Dec 2, 2011

The NBA lockout is over! Is there any other piece of news as noteworthy as this? Um, YES. Hallelujah! The biggest piece of sports business news broke this past week: after 5 months and $100M in revenue lost, yes, the NBA Lockout is OVER! Anyone else hear crickets? That’s the sound of the 61% of Americans, [...]

If you build it, they still might not come

By Samantha Talavera | Nov 29, 2011

AEG is taking some big risks. Will the NFL live to see a team succeed in Los Angeles? A 20-13 loss to the Texans, a devastating 3-8 record, elimination from play off contention, and a head coach gone. So the story goes. This morning, amidst announcements of the axe of head coach Jack Del Rio [...]

The Monday Mixtape

By John Gorman | Oct 17, 2011

Awwww yeah … another week of NFL action in the books. I ain’t got time wax poetic about nothin’ in particular. Hell, I ain’t got time to bleed. Looks like I picked the wrong week to trade Ahmad Bradshaw off my fantasy team: Yup. 3 TDs. Or, as Rex Grossman calls it … a Lifetime [...]

The Monday Mixtape

By John Gorman | Sep 19, 2011

It was a wild and wooly week 2 in the NFL. Aaron Rodgers won again but wasn’t even the most talked-about QB on the field. The Bills, Lions and Redskins are 2-0. Up is down, down is u- … oh, I see the Patriots are destroying all comers again. I stand corrected.

Pitchfork Fall NFL Preview: Part I – AFC East

By John Gorman | Aug 25, 2011

The renowned music website and publication is taking its prodigious critical ear and writing wizardry to sports. In an eight-part series, we’ll be previewing each NFL team’s new releases. Let’s get indie.

The Pleasant Fiction of NFL Parity

By Wheat Hotchkiss | Aug 25, 2011

NFL Parity? Yeah, that’s a myth, perpetuated by the shield to sucker oodles of fans into backing their hometown teams for another 16 games. Does it work? You betcha.

The NFL’s Six Most Hopeless Teams

By Bryan Freidman | Aug 19, 2011

“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.” – Yeah, Red obviously never met a Bengals fan in the slammer.

How Goodell and Dungy convinced Vick to come to Philly

By The Emo Lawyer | Aug 18, 2011

A new GQ column claims Michael Vick didn’t originally want to play for the Eagles, and Cincinnati and Buffalo were better options. Here’s how those two options stopped looking so good.

S&P downgrades the world of sports

By Scott Gilman | Aug 10, 2011

Now that the US has been downgraded, what else needs to be knocked down a peg? Perhaps even lower than AA+? Here, we examine sports institutions that are losing credit … fast.