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Weekly Review 7/5/13

Tweet“Say it ain’t so Joe, in 140 characters or less.” History as a Western scholarly discipline naturally followed the dissemination of books as the intellectual medium, within which historians, over...

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Weekly Review 6/21/13

Tweet“First world stadiums, third world schools” It was a pretty slow news week for sports, politics, and culture in Chicago, but a pretty big one for sports and social justice worldwide. What began as...

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Weekly Review 6/14/13

TweetThis week the Bulls broke ground on what is to be a 60,000 square foot practice facility adjacent to the United Center.  For the Bulls, the training complex will replace the Berto Center in the...

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Weekly Review 6/7/13

TweetWe live in a world where pro sports team owners get what they want from local governments.  If they don’t get it up front (e.g. White Sox new stadium) they get it on the back end (e.g. United...

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Weekly Review 5/31/13

TweetTwo cities, two stories, one big problem A great article by Ben Austen appeared in the New York Times Magazine this week, which speaks to the effects of neoliberal urban policies in Chicago.  And...

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Weekly Review 5/24/13

TweetAnd to think, all he ever wanted to be was a car owner There is nothing really atypical about the most recent Jerry Reinsdorf bio piece (which happens to come from Sports Business Journal) except...

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Weekly Review 5/17/13

TweetComparing Soda and Stadiums Word came from the Sun Times this week that the city will fund a new basketball arena near McCormick Place for a private university from Lincoln Park.  For those of you...

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