How Litigation Threatens Professional Football

by Steve Chapman. Professional football is the most popular spectator sport in America, which is one reason yesterday’s Super Bowl was expected to draw 110 million viewers. With its famous athletes, storied franchises, and lucrative TV contracts, it's an industry whose future appears limitless. But football has a problem: the specter of mass brain  ... MORE

Allysia Finley: Mickelson And The Sports Star Migration

Move from California saved Tiger $100 million.    America's top-grossing golfer Phil Mickelson drove himself into a bunker on Jan. 20 when he said that federal and California state tax hikes had made him contemplate making "drastic changes" in his life—including, it was widely assumed, moving to a no-income-tax state such as Texas or Florida. ... MORE

New Jersey Puts Money On Legalizing Sports Betting

by Colton Totland. Sports fans who have longed to back their favorite teams with their gambling dollars — legally — may soon get their chance as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie leads a challenge to laws that have limited legal betting on sports to a small handful of states. The long-running, high-stakes battle over betting on sports in America is coming to a     ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Sports Versus Politics

Empirical evidence has great value.   It has long seemed to me that there is far more rationality in sports, and in commentaries on sports, than there is in politics and in commentaries on politics. What has puzzled me is why this is so, when what happens in politics has far more serious effects on people's lives. To take one common example, there are many people ... MORE

Alva Noe: Legalize It: An Argument For 'Doping' In Sports

What does natural mean today?  Rocky's coach forbade him to have sex with his girlfriend while he was in training. Was this because he would be so tired out by sex? Or was it that the coach believed it would alter Rocky's drive, or mindset, somehow making him happy and relaxed, depriving him of the disturbed drive, the hunger, to win? I was just a kid when I    ... MORE