Posted on: 15 Oct 2024
The NHL isn’t known, as other pro sports leagues are, for awarding its players exorbitantly wealthy contracts. See: Shohei Ohtani, who last off-season inked a $700 million deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers, or Jaylen Brown, who recently signed a five-year contract extension with the Boston Celtics worth $303 million. The NHL has a salary […]
Posted on: 07 Oct 2024
What are the best baseball colleges and stadiums in the country? Well, it depends on what we mean by “best”. Is “best” just another way of saying “winningest”? Obviously, the best baseball colleges have winning histories. But that’s not the whole story. The fact that we’re dealing with baseball at the college level complicates things […]
Posted on: 16 Sep 2024
I walked into Publix yesterday (needed almond milk) and couldn’t help but notice the gigantic installment of aqua-and-orange cakes by the entrance. Weird. But then it clicked: it was an early September Sunday. Football season had started. Helmeted Miami Dolphins, fashioned out of frosting and food dye, decorated the cake tops. The actual Miami Dolphins […]
Posted on: 22 Aug 2024
Like the highest paid baseball, basketball, and soccer players, the highest paid NFL players bring in millions of dollars each year. The highest of the highest paid NFL players—superstars like Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, and Deshaun Watson—command multi-year contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars. And by looking at the highest paid NFL players by […]
Posted on: 15 Aug 2024
Highest Paid Soccer Players – Like many Americans, I’m tepid on soccer. Although it’s not because I’m incapable of understanding and appreciating the beauty of the sport. After all, soccer is, by a huge margin, the most popular sport in the world. It’s just that soccer isn’t in my bones the same way, say, baseball […]
Posted on: 29 Jul 2024
Highest Paid WNBA Player 2024 – The WNBA is booming. The 2024 season, which began in May, has already been record-breaking. The first five WNBA games that aired on ESPN garnered an average viewership of more than 1 million people—up 226% from last year. In-person audiences are up as well, beating last year’s numbers by […]
Posted on: 25 Jul 2024
Highest Paid CEOs 2024 – I am not against CEOs being compensated for their job performance. I feel like that little disclaimer was necessary because as I discuss the highest-paid CEOs over the coming paragraphs, you might notice a somewhat sardonic—maybe even condemnatory—tone. Like, for example, when I say that the salaries of the highest-paid […]
Posted on: 22 Jul 2024
The highest-paid NBA players are some of the most well-rewarded athletes on the planet. Star players routinely command contracts with average annual values worth upwards of $50 million. But it’s not just the stars that land insanely lucrative mega deals. The average NBA salary in the 2023-24 season was $9.7 million. That makes the NBA […]