David Roth

Major League Baseball’s hothouse economy is not any more logical or predictable than the broader one from which it is carved out by a federal antitrust exemption, but then, any marketplace that includes the New York Mets is by definition not a rational one. Baseball’s ...

The NFL repeatedly mistakes itself for a nation state—a sort of parallel America.

A fan’s notes on the decline of the NFL.

Ben Roethlisberger couldn’t sleep Sunday night, and on Monday afternoon the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback decided that he could remain silent no longer. Donald Trump had leaned blearily into an ad-lib encouraging NFL owners to take a firm hand with players who kneel in ...

Any attempt at psychologizing Trump should begin and end here: he is a blank sucking void of vanity and appetite.