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 […]
Posted on: 02 Jul 2024
2023 was a tumultuous year in Hollywood. The Writers Guild of America, a labor union that represents roughly 11,500 screenwriters, was on strike between May 2 and September 27. On July 14, the American actors’ union SAG-AFTRA went on strike too, and their labor dispute wasn’t resolved until November 9. The intricacies of the strikes […]
Posted on: 11 Jun 2024
I never had to answer any private school interview questions. My first real-deal interview didn’t come about until after I graduated college. Of course, I showed up way overdressed. Everyone in the office was wearing jeans, tees, and scuffed Chucks; I was rocking dress shoes, a button-down, a preppy blazer, and a chunky tie. This, […]
Posted on: 21 May 2024
How long is a high school basketball game? The answer is pretty simple: about an hour, sometimes more. High school basketball games consist of four 8-minute quarters. A halftime break takes place between the second and third quarters and typically lasts between 10 and 15 minutes, and the transitions from quarter to quarter last a […]
Posted on: 17 May 2024
The biggest and loudest college basketball arenas aren’t as staggeringly huge as some of the biggest college football stadiums. But that doesn’t mean that they aren’t high-decibel madhouses when the home team is up. After all, there’s a reason bookmakers on average assign a 3.5-point advantage to the home team. Check out a list of […]