Adam Kimmel

Occasionally, owners of professional sports teams request “small” windfalls, often in the form of hundreds of millions to billions of dollars, to fund anything from practice facilities and locker room improvements to entire stadiums from their franchise’s host cities...

Any sports fan has experienced it hundreds if not thousands of times: The sudden stoppage of play right as everyone starts getting into a rhythm. If you are at the event in person, you plan on getting the 45-60 seconds they just wasted back any way you can. Normally this little piece of vengeance comes in the form of boos, jeers, and colorful language. But, what if a part of your financial future is staked upon a 60-minute contest and you watch someone strip it away based on a ruling you...