New here? Start with these. The pieces that best represent what Beyond the Box Score is trying to do.
The piece that started everything. Your favorite team is a real estate play, a media company, and a private equity bet. Understanding this changes how you watch every sport.
The Curt Flood story is the most important labor story in American sports and most fans have never heard it. Start here if you want to understand why players have any power at all today.
One day a week. Sixteen home games. The entire country watching at the same time. The most successful business model in American sports is not about football. It's about what you don't get.
The 12-team playoff sounds like fairness. It is a $7.8 billion media rights negotiation that happened to involve college football games. The players are not part of this conversation.
For a lot of small American cities the local minor league team was the only professional sports they had. MLB ran a spreadsheet and those towns did not get a vote.
The most surprising sports business story of the decade. How a backyard game became a private equity target and what it tells us about how new leagues actually get built.