In Grantland, Malcolm Gladwell (the patron saint of jordoncooper.com) writes, And let’s not forget Mikhail Prokhorov. How does he feel about buying into the financial sinkhole that is professional basketball? The blog NetsDaily recently dug up the following quotation from a 2010 interview Prokhorov did with the Russian business newspaper Vedomosti: "We have a team, [...]
David Stern
If Bill Simmons Ruled the NBA
From Grantland Greed in its rawest form. That’s the National Football League’s lockout. Both sides were like two billionaire drug cartels splitting up a massive cocaine shipment who got pissed off and just started shooting each other. "You took too much! I saw that!!!" They will settle next week and slink into the sunset with [...]
The week in bad ownership
In a week where the Washington Football Club/Racist Nickname asked the Washington Post to rename a sports news blog that covers the team and you also have Jerry Jones trying to intimidate the union in negotiations which lead them to decertify and sue the league, you would think the NFL would be a lock for [...]
