Word: clevelandism
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...million fantasy sports industry, sports stock just might fly. After all, in our sports addicted society, one should never underestimate the desire of fans to find a new competitive arena to play in. "There are bragging rights involved," says Mike Meyer, a law school student from Cleveland who has already invested $1,000 in the OneSeason market, and, he quickly adds, has doubled his money (he picked LeBron James, Alex Rodriguez, and Tom Brady for his portfolio, or as it's known in OneSeason jargon, his "sportfolio"). "I was just showing my buddies how my stocks are going...
...their first in 86 years? (And they won again last October, so greater Bostonians, please spare us any more soppy, self-pitying salutes to Pesky, Yaz and Teddy Ballgame.) As another October arrives, there's only one baseball team yet to shed its truly historic loser label. Sure, the Cleveland Indians have been championship-starved since 1948. But when you haven't won a title in, literally, a century, like those lovable, laughable Chicago Cubbies, a 60-year losing streak seems like just a few bad days at the office. "I defy anybody to say that there has ever been...
...they needed all this money in a simple way to the guy with the 401(k), the guy with a small business who already pays a lot in taxes, why he should support this thing. We have to make sure the taxpayer is made whole." - By Christopher Maag / Cleveland...
...also (except in, say, Detroit and Cleveland) not the result of external economic factors like Texas in the 1980s or Southern California in the 1990s. It's a crash caused by the twisted dynamics of real estate finance in recent years...
...Allison Cleveland, present with her partner, a professor attending the event, said that the roast was her first time eating “goat...