On Election Day, residents rebuffed their once-beloved Seattle SuperSonics, voting overwhelmingly for a ballot measure ending public subsidies for professional sports teams. The owners, who bought the Sonics in October for $350 million from Howard Schultz, the founder of Starbucks, had warned that the team would leave unless the city provided a new arena. (New York Times, Monday)
It’s about time.
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Yo, Brooklyn! Get Real about Politics and Sports (pdf) by Raymond J. Keating