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Jay-Z's blueprint for baseball
Mark Garrison Apr 3, 2013
Jay-Z’s move into sports management adds to the rapper's business portfolio and help baseball.
A $100 million home run for Dodger Stadium
Kai Ryssdal Mar 27, 2013
Dodger Stadium is in the midst of a $100 million remodel. Janet Marie Smith, the architect who designed it, took us on a tour less than a week before opening day.
Mend it like Beckham: Can the superstar save Chinese soccer?
Rob Schmitz Mar 25, 2013
David Beckham has just wrapped up a visit to China, where he is now serving as 'global ambassador' to the country's national soccer league, an organization long plagued with match fixing and bribery. Can Beckham help save Chinese soccer?
Top 10 reasons why Marketplace trumps Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me!
Kate Casey Mar 21, 2013
This past Monday, Southern California Public Radio (KPCC), created a March Madness bracket to finally determine the top dog of the public radio world. In round two, it's Marketplace versus Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell me!
'March Madness' Beltway style
David Gura Mar 21, 2013
The NCAA men’s basketball tournament kicks off today, and there is big money at stake -- in office pools, of course, and in Washington, where the tournament is a gimmick for politicians raising campaign cash.
A March Madness bracket that South Dakota State would win
Adriene Hill Mar 20, 2013
The teams to beat in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament are the University of Louisville and Indiana University. But in an economic sense, Louisville, Ky., and Bloomington, Ind., aren't the favorites.
Skid Row was L.A.'s solution for homelessness. Now that's changing
David Weinberg Mar 19, 2013
Los Angeles has long steered its homeless population to a border area of downtown rarely seen except by those who work there and the homeless. Now redevelopment is pressing against Skid Row, and advocates are taking steps to secure homes for the homeless.
TV Next: Time Warner's Roku future
David Brancaccio Mar 19, 2013
Time Warner teams up with Roku to offer streaming cable. Google Drive outage threatens corporate uptake of Google and cloud-based products.
Tiger Woods may be back on top, but will Nike buy it?
Gigi Douban Mar 13, 2013
Since his marital indiscretions more than three years ago, it's been a long road back to the top. But the buzz around the golf course says there's no question -- Tiger has returned.
Betting money on a dead horse: Seriously
Gigi Douban Mar 11, 2013
Some in Nebraska are pushing for betting machines of 'historical horse races' at thoroughbred race tracks. The machines allow wagering on the outcomes of past races. Critics say they’re basically slot machines and would constitute expanded gambling.
