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A deep reported longform piece on the full arc of the NCAA amateurism model. From its origins in the early 1900s through the NIL era. Who built the system, who it served, who fought to change it, and what college football actually looks like now that the wall has started cracking. The most important unresolved story in American sports told start to finish.
The Warriors dynasty introduced a style of play that every team in the league now runs. And yet Golden State has spent the last four years rebuilding while everyone else runs their system. A story about what happens when you are too early and the game catches up to you.
A city-by-city breakdown of recent NFL stadium deals and public financing. Las Vegas, Buffalo, Kansas City, Nashville. What the economic impact studies promised, what actually happened, and why the math almost never works out the way the boosters say it will.
The A's left Oakland for Las Vegas. For a certain generation of Bay Area sports fans that loss hits different from the usual franchise relocation story. A reported piece on what the A's meant to Oakland, how the deal went down, and what the city is left with now that the team is gone.
Multiple leagues have tried to compete with the NFL in the spring window. Most of them are gone. A history of why challenger football leagues fail and what that tells us about the NFL's structural dominance over American sports culture.
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