Good job boys, good process [actually laudatory]

The lottery should be an email anyways

Ira Boudway of Bloomberg argues we should abolish the NBA draft! As noted in the story, I argue that any reward for losing will likely result in more losing. And getting rid of the draft forces teams to think harder about how they want to build a team. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It’s past time to abolish the draft www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Just leaving it there before retiring: the over-ruling of the penalty awarded for the foul on Eberechi Eze is incomprehensible. Why VAR intervenes is a mystery. Why the referee does not ask his VAR team if they're joking is another one. I'd say the same if Dominic Solanke, not Eze, had been fouled.

The time Frank Viola got tossed for arguing with the robot ump. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

hard agree www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Now that March Madness has properly begun, re-upping this one on how the tournament’s folk heroes cash in on their moment of fame. This is how Jack Gohlke accidentally negotiated $20,000 out of Buffalo Wild Wings in 2024: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Or “How Jack Gohlke accidentally negotiated $20,000 out of Buffalo Wild Wings”

"There’s no time to be fussy because the players’ schedules are packed and the tournament’s viral moments fade quickly. “If anything requires approvals, legal reviews or custom creative, it’s already too slow,” Denton says."

"Although there’s no real way to prepare for March Madness fame, there are a couple of things every player should do before the tournament: Make sure your name is in your social media handles, and put an email address in your bio." bloom.bg/4luhGlF

So you’ve gone viral during March Madness? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

So you’ve gone viral during March Madness? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Most people also won’t finish your 500-word article. So write at whatever length is appropriate for the subject.

The Dodgers have a huge payroll. Biggest ever. The gap between the haves and have-nots is growing. Baseball will be fine. Great, actually. Enjoy it. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Nice article on the Dodgers and MLB's current competitive balance non-problem, with quotes from me! (and a 100+ year old reference I forwarded along that @rodneyfort.bsky.social shared here a while back). www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Dodgers have a huge payroll. Biggest ever. The gap between the haves and have-nots is growing. Baseball will be fine. Great, actually. Enjoy it. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Prediction markets are forcing professional sports bettors to learn to think like their pontine nemesis: the bookmaker. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I see people saying that the writers who leave the Post will be fine if they set up their own newsletters and I get that's probably where things are going and I'll pay for them, but... that's not a newspaper. Newspapers are inefficient. They have stuff that's important that's not a money-maker. 1/5

Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying. Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...

This lad Own Goal has been a great signing for Arsenal

“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national/202...

I wrote about how the college football sausage gets made in the era of NIL Go: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

For our latest business of sports newsletter, I wrote a love letter to @vermontgreenfc.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

"For prediction market customers, it’s buyer beware. When you trade in sports contracts, you might be up against a counterparty with sophisticated statistical models or even a team of quants on their side. And you might be up against someone with access to information you don’t have."

The culture of prediction markets around insider trading, at least in their early days, doesn’t fit with the integrity needs of sports leagues. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

scoop: one of the largest renewable energy projects in the u.s. is quietly getting killed say goodbye to leading light, the latest casualty of trump’s war on offshore wind (also means there is essentially no more offshore wind in progress at all for new jersey)

"Bon Jovi has eaten two bowls of pasta. I am struggling to keep pace. I feel supremely conscious of his fame. Stardom means there is always a schedule, a car, a plane. Our conversation continues only at his discretion. If he wanted, he could slip away more easily than the spaghetti on my fork."

To all the Dick’s I’ve loved before www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

If you’ve ever spent a Saturday shouting from the sidelines, you’ve probably helped build Dick’s Sporting Goods’ $13 billion empire.

Dick’s Sporting Goods — "which began life in 1948 as a fishing and camping store in Binghamton, New York — has become the Levi Strauss of the youth sports gold rush. It’s the leading supplier for young athletes searching for glory." Happy weekend, to my fellow sports parents out there!

To all the Dick’s I’ve loved before www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Robot umps are coming to MLB next year. I wrote about testing them in the Atlantic League a few years back: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

It’s a true fact: I got a Business Job in the Business World, which I start next week. But on my last day, Slate let me do one last job: A post about [portentously] all that I’ve seen. slate.com/news-and-pol...

I wrote about Ballhalla with Vanessa Perdomo: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

After 30 years at USA TODAY, it's -30- for me. I have taken a buyout. It's been the thrill and dream of a lifetime. Being a newspaper person was all I ever wanted out of work. There's not enough room to acknowledge everyone who deserves it but my gratitude runs wide and deep.

NJ Transit's official data makes it difficult to tell just how bad it is. So @suryamattu.com and I spent three months collecting the raw location data for more than 190,000 trains on NJT, Metro-North, and LIRR. Then @mariepastora.bsky.social made the graphics to show you. The answer: Very bad.

I wrote about the problem of prop bets: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“Last season’s numbers, Dinnery says, show that Tottenham Hotspur, for example, played the most minutes of any team in the league, at 5,430, and suffered the second-highest number of injuries, at 41.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"DAZN agreed to pay $1 billion for the rights to the [FIFA Club World Cup] tournament—a princely sum for a TV property with virtually no track record .. DAZN subsequently had its balance sheet bolstered by a $1 billion investment from Saudi Arabia" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I checked in with Steve Ballmer about the Intuit Dome after the Clippers first season there. Ballmer, as always, a fun interview: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is the future for a lot of places. I wrote about beer as a gateway a couple years ago: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Agree. The clearinghouse is going to take college sports backwards: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I wrote about the sports doc glut www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“There was a moment in the sports doc world when a lot of big athletes could sell something based simply off of their name,” he says. “But it’s become more about, ‘What’s the story? Is it going to provide something new and interesting?’” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is a top priority of Donald Trump, and does not include a ban on Trump profiting off of his many family crypto ventures, which have netted them many millions of dollars since his election.

Good to see leagues arriving: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...