<BR><p>Every September, somewhere, a lead that looked safe in July starts to shrink, and everyone in both cities starts doing the same arithmetic. This article is about the handful of times in basebal...
For twelve consecutive seasons, from 2006 to 2017, NFL teams went for it on fourth down about ten per cent of the time. Every single year. Not drifting, not trending, just the same number over and o...
The salary cap crossed $300 million for the first time in 2026, landing at $301.2 million a club. The Miami Dolphins spent more than sixty per cent of theirs on players who were not on the roster. N...
A full postseason share for the 2025 World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers was worth $484,747.57. That is a precise number, published by the commissioner's office, and it is the sort of figure t...
On Wednesday the NBA took five first-round draft picks off the Los Angeles Clippers. Not one. Five, consecutively, 2029 through 2033, plus a $30 million fine, a year-long suspension for Steve Ballme...
When the balls came out of the bowl in Monaco on Thursday, one fixture was already impossible. Liverpool could not be drawn at home to Real Madrid, a tie that has produced two European Cup finals an...
The draw was made in Monaco on Thursday and the first matches are played between the 8th and 10th of September, by which point every one of the 36 clubs in the Champions League league phase will alr...
In November 1943 the commissioner of baseball banned the owner of the Philadelphia Phillies for life. William D. Cox had bought the club eight months earlier and had bet on his own team, and Kenesaw...
In February 1997 David Bowie sold $55 million of bonds secured on the future royalties of twenty-five albums, paid Prudential 7.9 per cent for a decade, redeemed them on schedule and got his rights ...
Bob Iger and Josh Kushner agreed a deal this month to take control of the Los Angeles Lakers at a valuation of $12.5 billion, a little over a year after Mark Walter had bought the same franchise at ...
In 2018 the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers reported income of $656 million to the Internal Revenue Service and paid a federal effective rate of twelve per cent. A player on the team across the co...
On the morning of August 14, 2026, a fund company in Palm Beach Gardens filed a document with the Securities and Exchange Commission registering thirty-two new exchange-traded funds. There is one fo...
The Los Angeles Lakers changed hands this week at a valuation of $12.5 billion, fourteen months after changing hands at $10 billion, and the same day brought a second set of numbers: the 2026 valuat...
Somewhere in the next three weeks, in an office at a power-conference football programme, a twenty-one-year-old will sign a document he does not fully understand, insuring his own knee for several m...
In January 1966 a group of Chicago businessmen paid $1.25 million for the right to put a basketball team on the floor. Adjusted for sixty years of inflation, that is roughly $12.5 million today - le...
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