Stadiums: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Cities spend massive amounts of public money on privately-owned stadiums. Cities issue tax-exempt municipal bonds that — wait, don’t fall asleep! C...
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Why do taxpayers pay billions for football stadiums? - Vox
Cities want football teams. Owners want stadiums. In the past 20 years, over $7 billion in public money has gone towards financing the construction...
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Four Reasons Taxpayers Should Never Subsidize Stadiums - Bloomberg
Elected officials have been played by team owners and sports leagues.
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So Many Seats, So Many Tax Breaks - The New York Times
New York City is considered one of the country’s most crowded market for sports stadiums and arenas — many of which have been built with sizable pu...
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The Rams’ $5 billion stadium complex is bigger than Disneyland. It might be perfect for L.A.
The Los Angeles Stadium, future joint-home of the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers, is on schedule to finish construction by 2020. I...
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How Much Longer Will Baseball Stadiums Be For Baseball Fans? - DeadSpin
MLB’s attendance, you might have heard, was down last year, around four percent by season’s end. The league’s front office, represented by anthropo...
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The Tangled Fate of D.C.'s Vacant RFK Stadium
RFK Stadium is taking up a very desirable plot of federal land in Washington, D.C.—and no one can agree what to do with it.
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