NEW VIDEO: Sports video games used to feel like the future.
Every year they looked better. Felt bigger. More ambitious.
Then somewhere along the way, they stopped trying to become better games.
To find out why, I talked to @kofie.bsky.social
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NEW VIDEO: For decades, America treated soccer like a joke.
Then something changed.
For Americans under 35, soccer is as popular as the NBA, and more popular than MLB.
So how did a country that spent decades mocking soccer suddenly embrace it?
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NEW VIDEO: 15 years ago, a pitcher throwing 100 MPH felt almost superhuman.
Now the best pitcher in baseball throws 100.
The closer throws 100.
The random reliever in a blowout throws 100.
So how did baseball learn to manufacture velocity? www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxA7...
Gambling ads were shown every four minutes in 50 football, basketball and hockey games, according to a Washington Post analysis www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Why did Taylor Swift become one of the biggest figures in sports?
Why did fans start acting like detectives over Mike Vrabel & Dianna Russini?
And why does sports suddenly feel more like Hollywood than Hollywood?
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The billions of dollars in advertising invested annually by sports betting companies have profoundly changed televised sports in the U.S., the analysis showed.
Will pay a lot of money to watch a live camera at MSG / Penn Station to watch World Cup tourists crash into hoards of rabid Knicks fans trying to get on Sidetalk
