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...float bonds for stadium construction. The NFL has loaned $725 million to help build or renovate 20 stadiums in the past 10 years. Total investment: $3 billion, $2.4 billion of which has been put up by owners. To keep those projects going--new stadiums are abuilding in Dallas and Phoenix, Ariz.--the league maintains in-house finance and stadium-design arms that the owners can tap when needed...
...money comes in all shapes and sizes, and now some bigger donors are also beginning to throw their weight around. Matt Bai had a widely cited cover story in the New York Times Magazine this summer about a growing network of wealthy progressives known as the “Phoenix Group” which has set about constructing a new extra-party infrastructure—potentially everything from think tanks to new media to get-out-the-vote operations—to begin to compete with the formidable array of institutions built by the right over the past few decades...
...questions you always have about freshman guys from places like Phoenix or Los Angeles or Florida is, ‘Yeah, okay, they do great when its 75 degrees in pre-season, but what happens when it gets really cold?’” Murphy said. “‘What happens when it gets windy? What happens when it gets mushy...
...said that the Phoenix provided the first male role models he ever had. The Phoenix member also said that students opposed to final clubs should seek alternative social space...
...Phoenix member agreed that the issue went beyond final clubs. “The deepest and most realistic problem to deal with is bringing some accountability to the administration for the mental health and social life of students,” he said...