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Joe Tiller’s Rose Bowl Ring is live on eBay: ebay.com/itm/2869748417…

Texas Tech just won the Big 12 and is sitting at #4 in the country. Here is their billionaire investor walking through the blueprint for how they bought their way into the national spotlight. This is the new college football.

Pasadena is building quite a case: pasadenanow.com/main/rose-bowl…

This is disturbing: tmz.com/2025/12/14/two…

zillow.com/homedetails/15… Liberace’s former home. Pool with the piano keys….

The Big Ten’s humblest team is building an $800M stadium, entirely with private financing, right in Evanston. One of the NFL’s most historic franchises now says they may be too poor to stay in Illinois, and will go begging hat in hand for taxpayer funded handouts in Indiana.

Great idea. Guy posts photos from the worst seat in the house at every major college football stadium. Sells calendars: instagram.com/p/DR5HbfUEu6v/…

Quite the story out of Ann Arbor? nytimes.com/athletic/69074…

The Hunt family is worth $25 billion. So of course they need $1.8 billion in public money to build a new stadium. For NFL owners, it’s the gilded era. Forever.

The Kansas City Chiefs are relocating from Missouri to Kansas and getting a new $3 billion stadium. 60 percent of it will be publicly funded — despite the owners boasting a nearly $25 billion net worth. This isn't the first stadium scam we've seen recently...

Ohio, an economy the size of Switzerland, sees just 48 trains a week and has no rail links between its major cities. Yet the state found $600M for a new Cleveland Browns stadium, 136× more than it plans to spend on rail projects over the next two years.

Big financial issues facing UCLA athletics: pasadenanow.com/main/ucla-athl…

Perhaps it’s me, but is appropriate for a sideline reporter to hug the person they just interviewed?

Sideline reporter: Drake Maye has three fumbles in the first half. What are you going to tell him at halftime? Vrabel: Hold on to the ball.

Washington Post sports department reportedly targeted in layoffs: thespun.com/sports-media/t…

Back to Washington Post layoffs. ... Perhaps this — in part — is the reason people are losing their jobs. $40 million to make, another $35 million to promote, expected to massively flop: yahoo.com/entertainment/…

So on the 4,167th and final day of a job so exhilarating that I'd swear at least 4,000 of the days qualified as very good or better, the coffee came with whooshing thoughts of the 11 years and the four months and the 27 days. The brain tore through the datelines from 17

Love this stuff! Nice work here by Scott Dochterman ... What we learned from the finances of the Big Ten’s first year as an 18-team conference nytimes.com/athletic/70710… via @NYTimes