Sunday, November 23
America’s oldest sport is drawing up new plays
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Best known to some as the sport the teen wolves play in Teen Wolf, lacrosse is not (yet) considered among the giants of professional team sports. But it’s much closer today than it was six years ago.
The Premier Lacrosse League (PLL) was founded by brothers Paul and Mike Rabil in 2019 as an upgrade to Major League Lacrosse (MLL), which had long been criticized for low player salaries and inconsistent media exposure. “Our goal was to fix professional lacrosse,” Paul, a former legendary midfielder at Johns Hopkins and perhaps the sport’s most recognizable name, told Morning Brew.
“Innovation has always been our engine.”
The early returns have been generally positive: ESPN was so happy with its media deal that it bought a minority stake in the league, and PLL reports that viewership and ticket revenue are climbing from their modest beginnings. The MLL no longer exists—the PLL absorbed what was left of it in 2020.
Still...most players don’t make a living on their PLL salaries alone. Many have full-time jobs or supplement their PLL income by coaching and running camps and clinics. A future in which “lacrosse player” is a lucrative career path wouldn’t have seemed possible a decade ago, but now, you don’t have to strain super hard to see the potential.
Looking ahead: The Brothers Rabil and the PLL have been instrumental in securing lacrosse’s return to the Olympics competitively for the first time in 120 years at the 2028 Games in LA. But a major question looms about whether the IOC will allow the Haudenosaunee people from present-day New York and parts of Canada—who created the first version of lacrosse almost 1,000 years ago—to compete under their own flag.—AE
- With the backing of investors like Alibaba co-founder Joe Tsai, the PLL made a handful of bold moves:Player equity: Every player has an ownership stake in the league—a model adopted by a number of upstart leagues (like Unrivaled).
- Touring model: The league plays all of its games in one city each weekend (think: the WWE), though plans eventually call for moving to a traditional home-and-away schedule.
- Broadcast experimentation: The PLL mics up its players (and refs) and has them analyze plays on the sideline in a “Breakdown Booth” right after they happen.
The early returns have been generally positive: ESPN was so happy with its media deal that it bought a minority stake in the league, and PLL reports that viewership and ticket revenue are climbing from their modest beginnings. The MLL no longer exists—the PLL absorbed what was left of it in 2020.
Still...most players don’t make a living on their PLL salaries alone. Many have full-time jobs or supplement their PLL income by coaching and running camps and clinics. A future in which “lacrosse player” is a lucrative career path wouldn’t have seemed possible a decade ago, but now, you don’t have to strain super hard to see the potential.
Looking ahead: The Brothers Rabil and the PLL have been instrumental in securing lacrosse’s return to the Olympics competitively for the first time in 120 years at the 2028 Games in LA. But a major question looms about whether the IOC will allow the Haudenosaunee people from present-day New York and parts of Canada—who created the first version of lacrosse almost 1,000 years ago—to compete under their own flag.—AE
Robert Reich
The rot at the top
Friends,
Ten months of this shit. Enough to make one scream, run stark naked in the streets, mount a revolution.
But we have to play the long game. In that long game, America learns from this catastrophe — and turns those lessons into laws, rules, and norms that prevent this from ever happening again.
Much has been revealed lately, both about Trump and the rot at the top of our system.
Trump’s attempted cover-up of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein has riveted the nation’s attention to the moral depravity of many rich and powerful men who raped children, with impunity.
Trump’s celebration of the Saudi crown prince who ordered the brutal killing of a Washington Post reporter has shown the moral vacuity of the CEOs who flocked to the White House dinner to honor the prince because they want his investments.
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Socialists Saviors
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Politics is changing. It does not take a brain surgeon to see that. It is changing because of Capitalism and the fact that over 80% of the population is not financially well off or secure at all.
For example:
1% of the population are super wealthy
9% of the population are very wealthy
8-10% of the population are wealth
20% of the population are average
60% of the population are poor or very poor
98-100%
Granted these numbers may be squeed a little in certain categories but the top two percentages are damn near perfect.
How has capitalism influenced politics?
Well...
because of the difference between the wealthy+ and the rest of us, some of the rest of us are reaching out to SOCIALISM in the hopes that socialism will balance out the financial equation.
SOCIALISM presupposes that more taxes from the wealthy will allow everyone else to have more. Unfortunately, the wealthy re-locate if and when taxes are raised locally. And, raising taxes nationally, requires Congress, which means BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS must agree to do away with TAX SHELTERS.
CAVEAT: If tax shelters are eliminated the wealthy will STOP CONTRIBUTING to the re-election campaigns of Democrats and Republicans.
LESSON LEARNED: Politicians care more about re-election than they do their own constituents.
You will see what happens in NEW YORK CITY, SEATTLE, and SAN FRANCISCO because Democratic Socialists have just been elected to Mayor's offices and they promise to TAX THE WEALTHY.
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Saturday, November 22
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Zelensky says Ukraine faces “a difficult choice” over Trump’s peace plan. President Trump said he expects a response from Ukraine by Thursday on the plan, which US officials hashed out with Russia. A draft that leaked to the press showed it’d require Ukraine to make significant concessions, including giving up territory and limiting the size of its army, in exchange for peace and security guarantees from the US. President Zelensky said the choice of whether to accept the plan means Ukraine would face “losing its dignity or the risk of losing a key partner.” Still, he vowed to work with the US, and said he’d spoken to Vice President JD Vance about the proposal.—SK
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