A Super Bowl Musing: Can Pro Sports Be More Than a Billionaire Extravaganza?
Kiat Lim, cyber-savvy son of Singapore billionaire Peter Lim, is claiming he has the key to ‘democratizing’ our sporting landscape.
Sports Teams: The Everlasting Tax Shelter for Billionaires
A perverse loophole allows owners of profitable teams — and their heirs — to lower their tax bills by claiming huge paper losses.
Pandemic Super Bowl 2021: Billionaires Win, We Lose
Billionaires Win, We Lose
The NFL Can’t Avoid Politics Even If It Wants To
NFL owners and even some fans might want to simply watch their teams compete and forget about the world’s problems. Right now, that’s just not possible.
Athletes Are Supporting Stadium Workers. Why Aren’t More Owners?
The owners of sports teams make billions off low-wage stadium workers. With games suspended, those workers deserve help.
NFL Owners Want Politics out of Their Sport — Unless It Comes From Them
The NFL strives to keep politics out of football ahead of the Super Bowl, except for when it comes from billionaire owners.
Football without Billionaires? Why Not?
Fed-up sports fans are stirring, and progressive politicians worldwide are beginning to take notice.
The Super Bowl and Politics
Maybe you didn’t notice before Colin Kaepernick took a knee, but the NFL has been deeply politicized for years.
Nike Says ‘Believe in Something.’ Can It Sacrifice Something, Too?
The company has made millions off Colin Kaepernick’s message. That money should go right back to the cause that message supports.
The NFL Should Do More Than Just Take A Knee
NFL owners have banded together against Trump’s divisive comments, but will they put their money where their mouth is?
Are Taxes the Real NFL Scandal?
With all the NFL scandals from this past season, the one that has received the least attention is the easiest to solve: the league’s tax-exempt status.
Film: Not Just A Game; Power Politics and American Sports
Not Just A Game; People, Politics, and American Sports, the powerful new documentary based on Dave Zirin’s bestselling book A People’s History of Sports, argues that far from providing merely escapist entertainment, American sports have long need at the center of some of major political debates and struggles of our time. The result is as deeply moving as it is exhilarating: nothing less than an alternative history of political struggle in the United States as seen through the games its people have played.