Topic: Sports
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Maps
What March Madness Can Teach Us About the Economic Geography of Sports
College towns dominate when it comes to sports employment.
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Cockfighting in Philadelphia: 200-Plus Years of Feathery Mayhem
Truly, this is a city that loves to watch winged animals duel to their bloody deaths.
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Olympics 2012
Number of the Day: 23,700
The estimated number of security personnel needed for the London Olympics.
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Tactical NIMBYism
A landowner hopes to prevent an English soccer team-led land seizure by dividing his property into one-square-meter plots.
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Oakland’s Sporting Hopes Dim
Without redevelopment money, plans to entice the A’s and Raiders to stay falter.
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New York vs. Boston: Which Is the Better Sports Town?
A statistical examination of the long-term sports successes and failures of the cities in this year's Super Bowl.
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Indy's Super Bowl Building Boom
Football's biggest event has done more to catalyze change in Indianapolis than it does in most cities.
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The Where and Why of NBA Super Stars
For one thing, location matters
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Drink of the Day: Beer
Brazil's cities may be required to introduce beer back into soccer stadiums for the World Cup
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Democracy in America
It's Betting Season for America's Mayors
This football season, some go all in
