GOAL!
Fox Sports outbid ESPN and NBC for the rights to the next World Cup, counting on even greater soccermania four years from now.
The University of North Dakota was forced by the NCAA to change its nickname, but unlike the Washington Redskins today, a tribe wanted to keep it.
Slippery Slope
The league has never kicked out someone for speech before, but the era of smartphones and political correctness may change that.
FOUL
One of the leaders of the American Football League’s wildcat strike says it’s up to fans, not players, to teach Donald Sterling a lesson.
Scrambled
When networks ask carriers for too much money, they get blocked from your screen—until you’re forced to pay more money to get them back.
GAME ON
Players want to get paid. Schools want to make billions. The only solution may be to ditch the non-profit façade and share the money.
Flashback
Wally Triplett accompanied the major league’s first black player on trips to the most racist city in the league before making history on his own in pro-football.
PLAY BALL
There would be no football today without Teddy Roosevelt. For the past 100 years, almost every chief executive has made a lasting mark on football, baseball, and more.
Hike!
It’s almost inconceivable that baseball would let a convicted felon into its pantheon. San Francisco 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo Jr. is a different matter.
GAMETIME
Northwestern players filed to organize this week. The NCAA wants to kill collective bargaining for “student-athletes” in the crib before its lucrative business model get sacked.