Did you hear about the obscenely rich sports team owner who managed to convince civic leaders to use millions upon millions of public dollars to build his team a new sports stadium?
If you’ve followed sports for long enough, you’re probably confused about which owner, which city and which stadium we’re referencing; after all, there are so many to choose from.
But sometimes a story is so old and so familiar that its very ordinariness is what make it newsworthy. Such is the case here, where recent events have yet again given a textbook lesson in how sports oligarchs bully the public out of preposterous sums that could be used to do things like hire more teachers, improve infrastructure or make kids safer — if not for the owners’ greed Read more…
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