Sports
Sports and the money and labor underneath them, read the way this column always has — the successor to Footy Socialism, with an eye on D.C.’s own teams, stadiums, and ownership fights.
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Club-Record Transfer Fee Signs Rookie for Four Years
D.C. United spent big on a striker while an eleventh-place team’s newest player took the deal every young pro takes: sign now,…
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180 Acres of Public Land in Stadium Deal
The Commanders are getting a $3.7 billion stadium on the RFK site. The affordable-housing promise attached to it is the part worth…
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Threat to Leave for Virginia Worked Twice
Monumental Sports used the threat of moving the Wizards and Capitals to Alexandria to win a deal to stay in D.C. Now…
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Lerners Say They’re Not Selling the Nationals
A media-rights settlement just handed the Nationals full control of their own broadcast revenue — the exact asset that made the team…
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League Conduct Rules Work the Same in Every City
Green Bay running back Josh Jacobs has been placed on the NFL’s Commissioner’s Exempt list pending a domestic-violence investigation — under a…