The NHL is back, the stars are aligned, and the marketing machine is purring. But look closer at the Milan ice: between the Russian void and the Greenland flags in the stands, this isn't a tournament. It's a frozen chessboard.
Super Bowl LX is over, but the financial hangover remains. Between Netflix, Peacock, Amazon, and YouTube, watching football has never been this expensive—or this exhausting. Let's tally the bill.
Tonight's billing promises a clash of Eastern Conference titans. The reality? A morbid case study of a league in transition, where one team has accepted the new world order and the other is drowning in it.
On the pitch, the Black Caps just handed India a historic humiliation. But behind the scenes, a very different game is being played—one where the 'victor' is just a well-paid employee of the loser.
Think the Wild Card slots are drawn from a hat? Cute. Here is how the league turned the postseason bracket into a high-stakes auction for your credit card info.
