| Mar 19, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP SubfeaturedWhen Zion Williamson’s foot broke through the sole of his Nike shoe on February 20th, the sporting world stood still. The consensus number one player in college basketball was playing in the biggest game of the season — North Carolina versus Duke — and suffered...
| Mar 30, 2016 | Economy / BusinessBillboards must be living creatures, for they appear to propagate like breeding rabbits. They spread everywhere, growing to enormous sizes while shouting corporate messages at us. Some even watch and track us with their digital eyes. Now, though, rather than...
| Mar 4, 2015 | Economy / BusinessIn Murfreesboro, Tennessee, less than an hour’s drive from my childhood home, two high school girls’ basketball teams just made national headlines — by trying to lose to each other. The basketball gods must have cringed at the late-February matchup between...
| Jan 28, 2015 | Economy / BusinessWhat should sports fans do when our heroes turn out to be frauds? Maybe you grew up watching Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire breaking home run records, as I did, only to find out that they (and just about everyone else in professional baseball) had been using...