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🏈 Raiders coach. Telestrator pioneer. Fox cornerstone. Video-game icon. Thanksgiving institution. John Madden kept finding new ways to make football understandable - and irresistible; we discuss w/"BAM!" author Scott Howard-Cooper; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

🏈 John Madden won a Super Bowl & reached the Hall of Fame. Yet coaching was only the opening act. "BAM!" author Scott Howard-Cooper explores the broadcaster, teacher, video-game icon & cultural force who became bigger than football; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

🏈 Coach. Broadcaster. Video game icon. Pop-culture force. "BAM!" author Scott Howard-Cooper joins us to explain how John Madden became much bigger than football; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

🏈 Raiders coach. Telestrator pioneer. Fox cornerstone. Video-game icon. Thanksgiving institution. John Madden kept finding new ways to make football understandable - and irresistible; we discuss w/"BAM!" author Scott Howard-Cooper; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

🏈 John Madden won a Super Bowl & reached the Hall of Fame. Yet coaching was only the opening act. "BAM!" author Scott Howard-Cooper explores the broadcaster, teacher, video-game icon & cultural force who became bigger than football; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

🏈 Coach. Broadcaster. Video game icon. Pop-culture force. "BAM!" author Scott Howard-Cooper joins us to explain how John Madden became much bigger than football; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

⚽ Four seasons. One Supporters’ Shield. Countless what-ifs. "Miami Before Messi" auhtor Joe Shaw makes the case for remembering the Miami Fusion — MLS’s shortest-lived franchise; 🎧➡️ LISTEN NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

⚽ Before Messi, there was the Miami Fusion. Four chaotic seasons. One brilliant final act. Then - gone. Team chronicler Joe Shaw revisits MLS’s forgotten South Florida experiment; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

⚽ Major League Soccer’s best regular-season team in 2001. Out of business in 2002. How did the Miami Fusion go from Supporters' Shield winners to extinction? "Miami Before Messi" author Joe Shaw unravels the mystery; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

⚽ Four seasons. One Supporters’ Shield. Countless what-ifs. "Miami Before Messi" auhtor Joe Shaw makes the case for remembering the Miami Fusion — MLS’s shortest-lived franchise; 🎧➡️ LISTEN NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

⚽ Before Messi, there was the Miami Fusion. Four chaotic seasons. One brilliant final act. Then - gone. Team chronicler Joe Shaw revisits MLS’s forgotten South Florida experiment; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

“It costs you nothing to be nice. It really don’t cost anything." (via @mirinfader.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/athletic/729...

⚽ Major League Soccer’s best regular-season team in 2001. Out of business in 2002. How did the Miami Fusion go from Supporters' Shield winners to extinction? "Miami Before Messi" author Joe Shaw unravels the mystery; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

🏒 #RIP Ron Duguay

⚽ Four seasons. One Supporters’ Shield. Countless what-ifs. "Miami Before Messi" auhtor Joe Shaw makes the case for remembering the Miami Fusion — MLS’s shortest-lived franchise; 🎧➡️ LISTEN NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

⚽ Before Messi, there was the Miami Fusion. Four chaotic seasons. One brilliant final act. Then - gone. Team chronicler Joe Shaw revisits MLS’s forgotten South Florida experiment; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

⚽ Major League Soccer’s best regular-season team in 2001. Out of business in 2002. How did the Miami Fusion go from Supporters' Shield winners to extinction? "Miami Before Messi" author Joe Shaw unravels the mystery; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

⚽ Four seasons. One Supporters’ Shield. Countless what-ifs. "Miami Before Messi" auhtor Joe Shaw makes the case for remembering the Miami Fusion — MLS’s shortest-lived franchise; 🎧➡️ LISTEN NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

⚽ Before Messi, there was the Miami Fusion. Four chaotic seasons. One brilliant final act. Then - gone. Team chronicler Joe Shaw revisits MLS’s forgotten South Florida experiment; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

⚽ Major League Soccer’s best regular-season team in 2001. Out of business in 2002. How did the Miami Fusion go from Supporters' Shield winners to extinction? "Miami Before Messi" author Joe Shaw unravels the mystery; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

"The 122nd World Series is an exquisite anomaly. For only the second time in the last hundred years, both participants will be seeking the first championship in franchise history." (@tylerkepner.bsky.social @willsammon.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/athletic/770...

⚽ Four seasons. One Supporters’ Shield. Countless what-ifs. "Miami Before Messi" auhtor Joe Shaw makes the case for remembering the Miami Fusion — MLS’s shortest-lived franchise; 🎧➡️ LISTEN NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

⚽ Before Messi, there was the Miami Fusion. Four chaotic seasons. One brilliant final act. Then - gone. Team chronicler Joe Shaw revisits MLS’s forgotten South Florida experiment; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

⚽ Major League Soccer’s best regular-season team in 2001. Out of business in 2002. How did the Miami Fusion go from Supporters' Shield winners to extinction? "Miami Before Messi" author Joe Shaw unravels the mystery; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

"Currently, 35 bowl games operate outside the CFP structure, and without any league contracts beyond the 2026 season, their futures are undetermined." (@scottdochterman.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/athletic/769...

⚽ Four seasons. One Supporters’ Shield. Countless what-ifs. "Miami Before Messi" auhtor Joe Shaw makes the case for remembering the Miami Fusion — MLS’s shortest-lived franchise; 🎧➡️ LISTEN NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

⚽ Before Messi, there was the Miami Fusion. Four chaotic seasons. One brilliant final act. Then - gone. Team chronicler Joe Shaw revisits MLS’s forgotten South Florida experiment; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

"This will be the first professional football team for Rhode Island since the Providence Steam Roller of the NFL from 1925 to 1931."UFL introduces Rhode Island Breakers for 2027 season" thescore.com/s/37372805

🏟️ Are modern sports teams becoming real-estate companies with franchises attached? Economist & "This One Will Be Different" author J.C. Bradbury examines mixed-use districts, stadium subsidies & the business model behind them; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

🏟️ Why do cities keep spending hundreds of millions on stadiums when the economic evidence says they rarely pay off? Sports economist & "This One Will Be Different" author J.C. Bradbury on why the same pitch keeps working; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

🏟️ Billion-dollar venues, shrinking public scrutiny & ever-richer owners: why do taxpayers keep getting asked to help foot the bill? Economist J.C. Bradbury joins for a timely look at modern-day sports stadium economics; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

🏟️ Are modern sports teams becoming real-estate companies with franchises attached? Economist & "This One Will Be Different" author J.C. Bradbury examines mixed-use districts, stadium subsidies & the business model behind them; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

⚽️ 👀 "MLS league and team execs painstakingly pointed out that this change wouldn’t affect more than 90% of the schedule, but winter weather is being cited here by D.C. United as a potential issue." www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...

Haha, no shit? www.nytimes.com/athletic/769...

🏟️ Why do cities keep spending hundreds of millions on stadiums when the economic evidence says they rarely pay off? Sports economist & "This One Will Be Different" author J.C. Bradbury on why the same pitch keeps working; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

🏒 👀 thesickpodcast.com/nhl-commisio...

🏟️ Billion-dollar venues, shrinking public scrutiny & ever-richer owners: why do taxpayers keep getting asked to help foot the bill? Economist J.C. Bradbury joins for a timely look at modern-day sports stadium economics; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

🏟️ Are modern sports teams becoming real-estate companies with franchises attached? Economist & "This One Will Be Different" author J.C. Bradbury examines mixed-use districts, stadium subsidies & the business model behind them; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

⚽👀"[W]e’re not in the business of looking at what our team owners do in other leagues." (@adamcrafton.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/athletic/768...

"Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is preparing to inform organizers of the 2034 men’s soccer World Cup that it plans to drop five new stadiums it proposed to build to host the tournament, according to people familiar with the matter." (Matthew Martin/@semafor.com) www.semafor.com/article/10/1...

🏟️ Why do cities keep spending hundreds of millions on stadiums when the economic evidence says they rarely pay off? Sports economist & "This One Will Be Different" author J.C. Bradbury on why the same pitch keeps working; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

EXCELLENT piece/analysis via @ralphdrussoath.bsky.social; broadly applicable to college football writ large! www.nytimes.com/athletic/769...

Sports bubble continues to inflate! (via @fieldofschemes.bsky.social) www.fieldofschemes.com/2026/10/13/2...

🏟️ Billion-dollar venues, shrinking public scrutiny & ever-richer owners: why do taxpayers keep getting asked to help foot the bill? Economist J.C. Bradbury joins for a timely look at modern-day sports stadium economics; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

🏟️ Are modern sports teams becoming real-estate companies with franchises attached? Economist & "This One Will Be Different" author J.C. Bradbury examines mixed-use districts, stadium subsidies & the business model behind them; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

"The Rays — who announced plans to move from St. Petersburg to Tampa in 2029 — have long had issues filling up their home ballpark." (@samblum3.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/athletic/768...

🏟️ Why do cities keep spending hundreds of millions on stadiums when the economic evidence says they rarely pay off? Sports economist & "This One Will Be Different" author J.C. Bradbury on why the same pitch keeps working; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

🏟️ Billion-dollar venues, shrinking public scrutiny & ever-richer owners: why do taxpayers keep getting asked to help foot the bill? Economist J.C. Bradbury joins for a timely look at modern-day sports stadium economics; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

🏟️ Are modern sports teams becoming real-estate companies with franchises attached? Economist & "This One Will Be Different" author J.C. Bradbury examines mixed-use districts, stadium subsidies & the business model behind them; 🎧 ➡️ NOW wherever you pod or YouTube!

All we ever hear about these days is uniforms, with little thought about the overall visual brand. Tail wagging dog stuff, and not surprising given how Big Apparel has flooded the zone with a zillion jerseys.