The highest level of college football is finally getting a playoff. This is something for which I have advocated, including co-developing the Enhanced Bowl Season to incorporate a 12-team playoff within the existing constraints of the power structure. The conference commissioners did better by ceding a little power/control for the long-term good of the sport [...]
America is becoming addicted to fantasy sports. A Chicago-based outplacement firm estimated that companies lose $7.4 billion during the 17-week NFL season as employees spend an average of 10 minutes of company time each day fidgeting with their teams. Fantasy sports are big business. While the foundation for early fantasy leagues in the 60s and [...]
The CEO of the Fiesta Bowl, John Junker, was fired for paying employees to make political contributions and then covering it up. This is in addition to a host of other offences, like using Fiesta Bowl money to pay for a strip club visit (pdf of full report). Junker was already a popular target for his nearly [...]
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