Sure, I should have written something like “for our puposes think of it as if” they’re borrowing money from the bank. Explaining how the municipal bond market works is unnecessary and probably actively unhelpful to somebody when “they get a bunch of money up front and have to pay it back over a long-period” is the… Read more

That’s how bonds work. Public entities don’t just have hundreds of millions of dollars lying around, so when they finance stadiums they do so by borrowing a money from the bank, and then paying it back over a 20 or 30 year timeframe. Just because the team skipped town during the repayment period doesn’t mean the city,… Read more

I’d never actually heard this term for them until I read it in the patent filing I wrote about. Read more

Risky URL click. Read more

Ahh, the interviewer was in on it. Read more

Nah, that one’s on me, not the refs (see the correction). Read more

Here’s the NCAA rule: Read more

I don’t think so. Perhaps the D3 basketball rules are different (though I doubt it), but in the NBA the clock doesn’t start until the ball touches a player. Read more

Giants offensive lineman Geoff Schwartz seems happy about something ... Read more

There is still technically a chance that the Chargers’ move to Los Angeles could somehow blow-up, as they’ve been given a one-year window to figure out the logistics of sharing the Inglewood Stadium. But while this isn’t the preferred solution for the Chargers, there is almost no chance they fuck-up a move to the LA… Read more

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Unfortunately it is not. From the AP photo caption: Read more

This is amazing. Read more

I may desecrate my latkes with weird toppings, but I cook them right. Read more

If you really want it, here’s the set. Read more

What moral standard do we lack that is required to cover this story? Have you see any of us tweeting out advertisements lately? Read more

Dammit, thanks. Read more

Having played each other for over 100 years but not playing each other during WW2 aren’t mutually exclusive things. In fact, in this case, both are true! Read more