NEW: Loan sharks are targeting small businesses using loans with interest rates up to 2,000%.
This scheme can be a death spiral, killing businesses and driving owners to the edge of suicide.
These loan sharks are experts at dodging regulation — now that needs to change.
The cost of youth sports has gotten out of control.
Parents are getting squeezed. Kids are feeling the weight.
We cannot allow it to become a luxury good available only to those with means.
A sports specialization study at UCLA found that 88% of NCAA Division I athletes played an average of two to three sports growing up.
I spoke with a Sioux Falls athlete and trainer who have seen the direct impacts of the multi-sport experience.
NEW: People are spending upwards of $60,000 on Super Bowl tickets.
World Cup tickets are going for as much as $230,000.
The cost of going to a game is out of control. We investigated what billionaire owners don't want you to know — how to fix this mess.
The NFL is concerned about the rise of prediction markets. And it will cling to that position until the moment the NFL can turn prediction markets into a revenue stream. (Which is exactly what it did with sports betting.) https://t.co/B0pyMqMOp7
NEW: Data centers are driving up utility costs.
As companies like Amazon and Meta pour billions into data centers across the country, it’s raising electricity bills.
While they’re making record profits, the rest of us are forced to foot the bill.
Big Blue graduate Jennifer Rheeling, Class of 1990, was recently enshrined in the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) Hall of Fame!
Congratulations to Jennifer! 🎉 #GoBigBlue
🔗 Read more: https://t.co/r9eAoxmUoD
Congratulations to former #Vols SS Ryan Ritter for getting the call to the MLB. Ritter will join the Colorado Rockies tonight!!
Rit becomes the 4th former Vol to don a MLB uniform in the last two years! #RitShow#ProVols#ShowVols#GoVols
“dump of a city in the Midwest”? I find this pretty ironic, considering LA has the homeless camps filling up their downtown streets & mountains of trash from the trains. Don’t blame STL for your sorry pathetic fan base. We didn’t need Marc Bulger’s wife to beg us fans to show up!