sports
Fast Fortunes: On the Diamond and Beyond
Baseball’s top hitter and Wall Street power suits both ply their trades in a high-speed world. That hitter will make over a quarter-billion in the next decade. The top suits stand to ‘earn’ astonishingly more.
Another Homerun for the Walloping Wealthy
Behind last week’s record-smashing $2 billion sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers, a global economy that’s enriching only the world’s super rich.
A Game-Day ‘Program’ for the NFL Lockout
To have any shot at comprehending the unfolding pro football lockout story, we need to first understand the mindset — and the mega millions — of our contemporary sports world’s ever-grasping owners. A review of Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love by Dave Zirin.
A-Rod and Inequality: A Lesson Worth Learning
Huge rewards for ‘talented’ people are supposed to leave all our lives much better than before. But they don’t — not in sports or any of the rest of life either.
Thoroughbreds and the Rich: A Deadly Embrace
Concentrated wealth is killing the horse-racing industry — and horses, too. We explore the inequality lurking behind the tragic fate of the 2008 Kentucky Derby runner-up.
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