Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy wasted little time in locking in four of the five companies he promised would bring the state more jobs under his so-called “First Five” plan, an initiative launched this year with the intention of luring new companies to the Constitution State with incentives.
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Stress tests aren't just for tottering European banks or the U.S. financial system circa May 2009. CNBC reports NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and chief financial officer Anthony Nato have asked the league's owners to subject their organizations to similar checks to ensure they can survive a worst-case scenario like a players' strike.
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The National Football League has signed a 20-year lease for a new headquarters three blocks north of its current digs.
Now located at 280 Park Avenue, between 48th and 49th streets, the NFL will move to 345 Park Avenue, between 51st and 52nd, according to a release. Starting in the third quarter of next year, it Read More
It’s a struggle between American Puritanism and American flamboyance. I’m talking about the argument over N.F.L. touchdown dances and other outcroppings of fun in this sport that takes itself so seriously. As the Super Bowl approaches, the sports prudes are at it again. Consider the deep distress with which an otherwise intelligent local sports media Read More
The Real Estate launches a new feature today called Real Estate Overheard. It's about those tidbits of real estate wit and wisdom you overhear in subways, on buses, at dinner parties, aboard airplanes, etc. If you do overhear anything about New York City real estate that you'd like to share with the world, please Read More
To get things started on Monday Night Football a week and a half ago, ABC ran a skit designed to promote Desperate Housewives, the latest entry in pop culture's dumbing-down sweepstakes. The inane little piece, set in a locker room, ended with an actress/desperate housewife named Nicollette Sheridan dropping a towel-viewers were treated to a Read More
TAMPA, Fla.-There is talk now that if the taxpayers of New
York are willing to part with a billion dollars of their money, one day they will know the thrill of playing host to the great ahistorical American spectacle formerly known as the National Football League championship. The massive West Side stadium proposal, which Mayor Rudolph Read MoreAmerican Fan: Sports Mania and the Culture That Feeds It , by Dennis Perrin. Avon Books, 230 pages, $23.
Folks, let's face it, there are only two kinds of sports fans. First up, there's the blood-and-guts romantic variety–you know who you are–the sort of person who takes sport seriously, very seriously, perhaps too seriously. These Read More
