Category: Business of Sports
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Why the Blue Jackets Killed the Bee
How Columbus went from a Civil War bee mascot to a corporate star crest, and why the Blue Jackets’ original identity had way more personality.
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The UFC’s New Streaming Era Isn’t Built for Fighters
A historic UFC media deal promised growth, but flat fighter pay reveals how streaming shifts leverage upward, erasing PPV power and athlete upside.
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Why Canadians Won’t Show Up at World Juniors in Minnesota
Border friction, political unease, and rising costs kept Canadians home. The half-empty arena showed how travel politics now shape hockey crowds.
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The ECHL Strike Was About Leverage and Power
A brief ECHL labour walkout exposed safety risks, union-busting tactics, and why minor-league players drew a hard line to defend collective bargaining.
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Ariel Helwani Is Bored by the UFC He Helped Build
Helwani’s complaint about an “uninspired” UFC reveals a contradiction at the heart of access journalism and the media system that normalized it.
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Baseball Stadiums and the Geography of Urban Power
The evolution of baseball stadiums mirrors suburban sprawl, housing inequality, and the infrastructure choices that shaped modern North America.
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Who Owns Nashville’s $2B Stadium Deal
Over $1.2B in public money will build a privately controlled Titans stadium, raising hard questions about debt, ownership, and who actually benefits.
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Sports Betting Is Rewriting What It Means to Be a Fan
Legalized wagering has turned athletes into targets, fans into bettors, and sport into a transactional spectacle, reshaping the culture and meaning of the games.
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The Dodgers as a Blueprint for State Power
How the Dodgers’ money, development machine, and World Series run expose MLB’s class system and show why structure, not vibes, decides who actually wins.
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Scandals, Spectacle, and the Sports We Can’t Escape
The World Series meets an NBA betting scandal, revealing how modern sports operate as ritual, soft power, and cultural theater in a politically charged era.
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Sports as Canada’s New Tool of National Statecraft
In a multipolar world defined by economic power, Canada is using sports to build cohesion, ease political divides, and consolidate the population for global competition.
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