Will Sacramento Be a Sucker For the Kings?
It Makes No Economic Sense For a Strapped City To Bribe Billionaire Team Owners. But, Let’s Face It, We’re Ripe For Extortion.
Walk into any room in Baltimore this month, be it barroom or living room, and you won’t need to know a trap block from a trapdoor to strike a spark of fellow-feeling and shared accomplishment. Just say, “How ’bout those Ravens?”
There is no community glue more universal than love of the home team. Winning isn’t even required. In Chicago a century of futility has bound Cubs fans as tightly as the stitches on a baseball. And in my hometown, we have never breathed together more as one place with one …
