Commissioner Engelbert, WNBPA leadership, team owners, and members of the basketball community: I am writing as a longtime supporter of… Read more
Category: Sports
What Happens When Apple, Cadillac, and Democracy Walk Into a Pit Lane
Night in Las Vegas behaves like a living thing. The Strip glows with gold and neon. Light swallows the stars…. Read more
The Big Ten’s Payday Loan
College football functions as civic ritual as much as sport. The stadiums resemble cathedrals. The rituals resemble holidays. Generations of… Read more
The NBA’s Global Bet: How Basketball Became America’s Most Valuable Export
The NBA tipped off another season last night, and for those of us who have followed the game since Reggie… Read more
America’s Trillion-Dollar Temptation
Most Americans don’t spend their mornings thinking about sovereign wealth funds. Yet this wonky Washington concept has suddenly entered our… Read more
LeBron: Endgame
A $5 billion war chest. Global investors from Saudi Arabia to Singapore. And LeBron James at the center of it… Read more
Racing Toward Redemption: A Black Man Wins at Indy
Nobody’s shouting it from the rooftops, and maybe that’s part of the problem. But Sunday, Bubba Wallace won the Brickyard… Read more
From Gasoline Alley to the Grid: What GM’s Formula 1 Engine Means for American Manufacturing
When you live in Indianapolis, motorsport is more than spectacle, it’s civic texture. On Memorial Day weekend, the roar from… Read more
Three Legends. One Timeline.
Some moments in sports feel too perfect to be real. Last night, Alexander Ovechkin broke the NHL all-time goals record…. Read more
At the Crossroads of Fandom & Investing, the currency is made of cardboard
There was a time when a baseball card was a keepsake of childhood, folded into a bike spoke, tucked into… Read more