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Rocco Commisso doesn’t disappoint on the entertainment end.

https://amp.theguardian.com/football/20 ... ssion=true

From 2 hours and change away to 45 minutes (in a good commute) away.

https://www.rgj.com/story/sports/2018/0 ... 500947002/

The localization trend continues.

I didn't have this league lasting three years. All the ingredients were there: Chico wanting to showboat for an upgrade to whatever, ownership in Portland wanting to "fill a gap" in the city, a shyster from one of the old western Indy Pro leagues trying to make a go in Lodi, and whatever f...

Why do I have "76 Trombones" stuck in my head upon reading this? (I'll leave you to pen the adaptation)

I wonder if there's a way to publically troll Joe with "but the G-League has a SPONSOR" and watch him try to flail to match.

Well, you just threw high school students into a discussion where they weren't really discussed. Something even I forgot while I'm all "I was being a bit flip, right" and wondering why the SOS from you. However, I can put this another way. In basketball terms, you overestimate grown men. ;...

Since Sam dug up another thread to, well, promote the passing of this idea, a quick read-back through this thread tells me one of the several places where this might have gone wrong. The involvement of clubs like Barcelona were probably at odds with what Cuban and the NBA owners envisioned. The inte...

This has received some national buzz. Also, shall we reflect on the police blotter that's beginning to form around college basketball? That whole scene is helping make this possible. But will it spread? I mean, you want these D-League teams and their parents to be judicious, you don't want to be thr...

http://variety.com/2018/digital/news/al ... 202731190/

A league forming that has a network already lined up?

That, if anything, is promising to practically be the anti-XFL?

I do not know what to make of this.

Let this be known: The Seattle NHL group collected 33,000 deposits of $500 or $1,000 for season tickets for the yet-to-be-awarded team within about 36 hours. BTW, at most 17,000 seats will be available. I know, there will be shakeout, a bunch of partial season tickets sold, it'll quite likely work o...

If you ask me... a living death.