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Stiffed the uniform vendor, stiffed the ice vendor, even stiffed the cleaning people. With this sentiment from the local small business community, Butera is delusional to think that another team would work in Las Vegas: "If I were to ever do business with another pro football team, it would hav...

Not for nothing, but the University of Akron had the worst per-game attendance in all the Football Bowl Subdivision in 2014. http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/Attendance/2014.pdf Granted, Akron Zips football is a distant fourth behind Ohio State, Ohio State and Ohio State, but if they'r...

Meanwhile, the Milwaukee Bucks sold for $550 million with a guaranteed $575 million buyback price if there's no arena deal done. At least for the $550 million, you get an established infrastructure with a great coach and a nucleus that can contend in the next few years. Oh, and that NBA TV deal kick...

If you add Las Vegas and Quebec City, an Eastern Conference team is going to have to go back to the Western Conference. I'm very surprised only two applications were submitted. If you think about it, this is the first multiple team expansion in a Big Four league in almost two decades -- the NHL was ...

Just to clarify -- different cities. The original Crush in the AFL played in the Pepsi Center and drew about 11,900 in its final season in 2008, before the entire league collapsed. This current version plays up in the Budweiser Events Center outside Loveland, some 50 miles north of downtown Denver. ...

A little more background on the name change: http://www.coloradoan.com/story/sports/csu/football/2015/07/16/colorado-state-football-pros/30264407/ Here's the key part: "The goal, co-owner Art Clarkson said, is to rejuvenate fan interest in a team that averaged 1,765 fans per game last season; t...

Here's a photo of the redesigned helmet. http://www.coloradoan.com/story/sports/2015/07/15/colorado-crush-indoor-football/30212499/ (Orange) Crush had been associated with the Broncos defenses of the late 1970s and early 1980s. With so many transplants in Northern Colorado in the last 20 years, I wo...

No coverage at all on this in Las Vegas.

The Outlaws section of the Review-Journal online last posted an article over a month ago.

[quote=""preeths""]We might be looking at this slightly differently. In the USFL cases I cited, the franchises sold for more than they were purchased for so the asset value increased, which really is what we're looking at here. Whether the sale price was more than purchase price ...

[quote=""preeths""]Not sure that's right. The Denver Gold, and possibly Tampa Bay, reportedly earned a profit in 1983, but I'm pretty certain more than one franchise actually sold for a profit. New Jersey comes to mind as does Boston, LA and maybe Washington.[/quote] Here's some ...