The NFL preseason opens tonight, and the standard line about it is that none of it counts. That is true in the narrow sense that no result below appears in a single standings table. It is also, on the...
In 2017 the Golden State Warriors sold a three-inch square of fabric on the left shoulder of their jerseys to the Japanese technology company Rakuten for a reported $20 million a year. It was, at th...
Shohei Ohtani is the best baseball player alive, the reigning back-to-back champion's biggest star, and the holder of a $700 million contract. This season the Los Angeles Dodgers will pay him $2 mil...
College football begins its season in four weeks with a set of accounts that would alarm any auditor. The Big Ten has just distributed a record $1.37 billion to eighteen schools, up $490 million in ...
This week a collector in South Florida bought two jumbo cases of 2026 Topps Chrome Baseball from his local card shop, took them home, and opened them. In the first box of the second case he found a ...
The 2026 World Cup ended on July 19 at MetLife Stadium, and across sixteen city finance departments the arithmetic began. It is a harder sum than it should be. FIFA is expected to clear around $11 b...
In January 1973, a shipbuilder from Cleveland led a group that bought the New York Yankees from CBS for $10 million, a figure that fell to $8.8 million once the network repurchased two parking garag...
Thirty NFL stadiums, thirty-two teams, and one question nobody answers cleanly: what is a stadium name actually worth? The honest answer is that it ranges from more than $31 million a year to precis...
Walk into any team store, pull a $180 jersey off the rack, and you are holding one of the most misunderstood financial products in sports. Most fans assume the player whose name is stitched across t...
Every spring, while fans argue about standings, professional athletes file up to 20 state tax returns each - one for nearly every jurisdiction they played a road game in. It is called the jock tax, ...
On Monday, August 3, at 6 p.m. Eastern, the 2026 trade deadline closes - the latest closing time in baseball history, with Tarik Skubal's name hanging over the market the way an ace's name always do...
The UFC will stage its biggest women's fight in years whenever Kayla Harrison's neck allows it - and that single sentence is doing an enormous amount of work in 2026. Through July 18, the promotion ha...
Spain opened as 5.50 favorites to win the 2030 World Cup within hours of lifting the 2026 trophy - and history says the ticket is doomed. No champion has retained the World Cup since Brazil in 1962,...
Have first-round NFL draft picks ever been cut in training camp? Exactly one modern case exists: Dimitrius Underwood, the 29th pick of 1999, who signed a five-year, $5.3 million contract with the Viki...
The ten highest single-hole scores ever taken by professional golfers, ranked and fully told: Tommy Armour's legendary and disputed 23 at the 1927 Shawnee Open, Philippe Porquier's 20 at the 1978 Fren...
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