Sports + Entertainment

Budget Battles

  • Why Netflix Didn’t Pay the Ransom for ‘Orange Is the New Black’

    By Josh Herr

    Over the weekend, hackers calling themselves “thedarkoverlord” threatened to release the first 10 episodes of the fifth season of Netflix’s “Orange Is the New Black” on the popular file sharing...

  • John Skipper, President of ESPN, INC, and co-chairman, Disney Media Networks addresses the media in Digital Center 2, a new 194,000 sq. ft building on the ESPN campus in Bristol, Connecticut May 22, 2014 will be the new home of SportsCenter beginning Ju

    Will ESPN's Mass Layoffs Save the Network?

    By Jeff Spross, TheWeek.com

    There was a bloodbath at ESPN on Wednesday. A dramatic round of layoffs had long been expected at the Worldwide Leader in Sports, but the numbers turned out much bigger than predicted : Roughly 100...

  • NFL logo and set are seen at New York's Radio City Music Hall before the start of the 2013 NFL Draft

    Here's Why It Really Pays to Get Picked in the First Round in the NFL Draft

    By Cork Gaines and Diana Yukari, Business Insider

    In the weeks leading up to the NFL Draft, players and agents jockey for position to be one of the top picks in the draft and cash in with a lucrative contract. This is immensely important because if...

  • Harry Potter Deathly Hollows Part II

    Here's Why Hollywood Is Addicted to Sequels

    By Diana Yukari and Carrie Wittmer, Business Insider

    There are a lot of sequels coming in 2017, and many have already hit theaters. But to the chagrin of Hollywood executives, many are bombing at the box office . Analysts are crying sequel fatigue, but...

  • View shows Dubai International Airport after an Emirates Airline flight crash-landed

    The Trump Effect? Major Global Airline Cuts Flights to US

    By Benjamin Zhang , Business Insider

    On Wednesday, Emirates announced plans to reduce service to the US amid fallout from the Trump administration's more restrictive travel policies . The Dubai, United Arab Emirates-based airline says...

  • Could Video Games in Schools Power Up Learning?

    By Andrew Lumby

    Your oxen have drowned. You have a snakebite. You have died of dysentery. In a bygone age, all of these messages glowed on computer lab Apple IIs in blocky green text, while middle school history...

  • We can’t live without H20; assuming we can solve the pesky issue of all the plastic, whether via recycling or reusable containers, bottles of fresh water of various sizes could easily fill the role of a currency , whether in the gyms of Manhattan or the m

    The Bottled Water Price Fight in California

    By Jane Wells, CNBC

    Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) has become the center in a battle between two retailers over a scarce California commodity: water. It's the bottled variety that has touched off a legal war...

  • Guess Which Sex Is More Narcissistic?

    By Matthew Biddle, Futurity

    On average, men are more narcissistic than women, report researchers, who say the findings apply across multiple generations and regardless of age. Forthcoming in the journal Psychological Bulletin...

  • 4) McDonald's

    McDonald’s on Antibiotics in Chicken: Not Lovin’ It

    By Lisa Baertlein and P.J. Huffstutter, Reuters

    McDonald's Corp's U.S. restaurants will gradually stop buying chicken raised with antibiotics vital to fighting human infections, the most aggressive step by a major food company to change chicken...

  • Pizza

    The 25 Most Addictive Foods in the World

    By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

    There is a very good reason we all want pizza – and end up reaching for a second slice (and maybe a third) when we’ve had our fill rather than a couple of carrot sticks or a fresh juicy apple packed...