Over the past 30 years, American sports have been quietly transformed from accessible public entertainment into one of the most extractive industries in the country: enriching billionaire owners, draining public budgets, and pricing out the working families whose hard-earned dollars built these franchises. Our upcoming print issue investigates how it happened, who profits, and what it would take to reclaim sports for the public.

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