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...

  • General Motors CEO Mary Barra purses her lips before beginning her testimony before a House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on the GM ignition switch recall on Capitol Hill in Washington June 18, 2014. REUTERS/Jonatha

    Why 2015 Will Be the Year of the Auto Recall

    By George Cook, The Conversation

    The U.S.’s top auto safety agency last week fined Japanese car company Honda Motor a record $70 million for failing to report hundreds of fatal accidents and injuries over the last 11 years. The...

  • Ohio State’s Big Win Doesn’t Mean Big Money

    By Jonathan Berr, The Fiscal Times

    Ohio State’s 42-to-20 victory over Oregon last night in the first ever College Football Playoff National Championship may have pumped up millions of Buckeye fans, but it could do surprisingly little...

  • Oscars 2015: Are the Golden Globes a Crystal Ball?

    By Josh Herr

    Are the Golden Globes a good indicator for Oscar wins? What shot do last night’s winners have on the big night in February?

  • An illustration picture shows the logo of car-sharing service app Uber on a smartphone next to the picture of an official German taxi sign in Frankfurt, September 15, 2014. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

    For $350, Grab an Uber Copter to the College Football Championship

    By Josh Lipton, CNBC

    The College Football Championship game is hours away, and fans going to the game in Arlington, Texas, now have a way to avoid game-night traffic. Uber, the ride-hailing app, is teaming up with a...

  • Why Google Keeps Struggling Against Facebook

    By John Melloy, CNBC

    Shares of Google may struggle in coming years as the company faces a maturing search business, lower margins in other products and increased competition from Facebook , according to a Wall Street...