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Time Out
5 days ago
- Sport
- Time Out
This Chicago stadium is the top bucket-list destination for U.S. sports fans
Chicagoans take baseball seriously—fans stay fans, even during the Chicago Cubs' 108-year championship drought, taking the moniker 'loveable losers' out of everyone's mouths. Cheering at a game at the famous Wrigley Field on the North Side of Chicago is an experience you're not soon to forget. From rooftop stadium seats on neighborhood buildings to the unique ivy-covered brick outfield wall, from the massive hand-turned scoreboard to the classic red marquee hanging over the main entrance, it's easy to see how Wrigley Field became a designated National Historic Landmark. And now there's a nationwide study that reveals a fact that locals have always known: Wrigley Field is the ultimate bucket-list destination for American sports fans. Last month, Deadspin polled 2,000 sports enthusiasts across the nation to determine what banger experiences across the globe are travel-worthy. Edging out Boston's Fenway Park, the oldest Major League Baseball stadium, Chicago's Wrigley Field—the MLB's second eldest venue—has earned the number one spot. Utilizing the research platform Prolific, Deadspin cast a wide net, including respondents living in the U.S. who would consider themselves sports fans. This online survey set out to determine which sports destinations fans most want to visit in their lifetime. What did the poll determine? Out of all of the sports destinations across the globe, fans have determined that the top five spots are located in the U.S. Wrigley Field earned number one, followed by world-famous venues including Fenway Park in Boston, Yankee Stadium and Madison Square Garden in New York City, and Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Other international stadiums in England, Japan, Spain, Italy, Australia, and Germany netted coveted spots in the top 25. Along with those dream sport venues, the study also revealed the top 10 sporting events that fans have on their bucket lists: unsurprisingly, the Super Bowl claimed the number one spot, followed by the men's FIFA World Cup, the World Series, the Olympic Games and the College Football Playoff National Championship. Here are fans' ultimate bucket-list sports destinations by state: Alabama: AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas Arizona: Yankee Stadium, New York City, New York Arkansas: Wrigley Field, Chicago, Illinois California: Fenway Park, Boston, Massachusetts Colorado: Lambeau Field, Green Bay, Wisconsin Connecticut: Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York Delaware: Wembley Stadium, London, England Florida: Wimbledon, London, England Georgia: Yankee Stadium, New York City, New York Idaho: Yankee Stadium, New York City, New York Illinois: Fenway Park, Boston, Massachusetts Indiana: Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California Iowa: Lambeau Field, Green Bay, Wisconsin Kansas: Wrigley Field, Chicago, Illinois Kentucky: Fenway Park, Boston, Massachusetts Louisiana: Yankee Stadium, New York City, New York Maine: Wembley Stadium, London, England Maryland: Wimbledon, London, England Massachusetts: Wrigley Field, Chicago, Illinois Michigan: Wrigley Field, Chicago, Illinois Minnesota: Fenway Park, Boston, Massachusetts Mississippi: Lambeau Field, Green Bay, Wisconsin Missouri: Yankee Stadium, New York City, New York Nebraska: Old Trafford, Manchester, England Nevada: Fenway Park, Boston, Massachusetts New Hampshire: Wrigley Field, Chicago, Illinois New Jersey: Lambeau Field, Green Bay, Wisconsin New York: Wembley Stadium, London, England North Carolina: Yankee Stadium, New York City, New York Ohio: Wrigley Field, Chicago, Illinois Oklahoma: Yankee Stadium, New York City, New York Oregon: Wrigley Field, Chicago, Illinois Pennsylvania: Fenway Park, Boston, Massachusetts South Carolina: Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York South Dakota: Wimbledon, London, England Tennessee: Lambeau Field, Green Bay, Wisconsin Texas: AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas Utah: Wrigley Field, Chicago, Illinois Virginia: Yankee Stadium, New York City, New York Washington: Fenway Park, Boston, Massachusetts
Yahoo
09-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Lambeau Field in Green Bay ranks 5th on sports fans' bucket list of experiences, survey says
Lambeau Field is on many sports fans' buckets lists for experiences, according to a new survey. A study from sports blog Deadspin ranked the Green Bay Packers home field as the fifth top bucket list experience for American sports fans. Wrigley Field in Chicago, Fenway Park in Boston, Yankee Stadium in New York, and Madison Square Garden in New York lead the list. Advertisement "It's the longest continuously used stadium in the NFL — a true cathedral of football. Catching a game at Lambeau means braving the 'frozen tundra' and soaking up the sight of thousands of proud fans rocking their signature cheesehead hats," Deadspin wrote when talking about Lambeau's ranking. Lambeau was one of four NFL stadiums that made the list, which included AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, and SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. According to the survey, five states chose Lambeau Field as its No. 1 bucket list sports destination — Colorado, Iowa, Mississippi, New Jersey and Tennessee. For Wisconsin fans, the venue on top of their sports bucket list is Wimbledon in London. Lambeau Field, home of the Green Bay Packers in Green Bay, Wisconsin. How did Deadspin determine the rankings? A survey was conducted by the research platform Prolific from May 15-17. It featured 2,000 respondents living in the United States, who also considered themselves sports fans. The survey was done online and aimed to find out which sports destinations people most wanted to visit in their lifetime, as well as sporting events that are on their bucket list. U.S. sports fans' top 10 bucket list experiences According to the survey, these are the 10 sports venues that fans have on their bucket list: Advertisement Wrigley Field, Chicago Fenway Park, Boston Yankee Stadium, New York City Madison Square Garden, New York City Lambeau Field, Green Bay Wimbledon Centre Court, London AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas Wembley Stadium, London Old Trafford, Manchester, England Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California Last year, Lambeau Field was ranked the second best stadium in the NFL, according to USA TODAY. Lambeau was also highly rated for tailgating. Rashad Alexander can be contacted at ralexander@ and 920-431-8214. This article originally appeared on Green Bay Press-Gazette: Green Bay Packers' Lambeau Field ranked 5th on fans' bucket list
Axios
02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Hot take: Pennsylvania sports fans' bucket list is offensive
Fenway Park is the Cathedral of Boston, but seeing it atop Pennsylvania sports fans' bucket list is sacrilegious. The big picture: Deadspin asked 2,000 sports fans across the country to share their ultimate bucket list experience, and Pennsylvanians chose … Fenway. Why it matters: Ya'll are a bunch of Benedict Arnolds, selling yourselves out to those hardos. Thought bubble: Player fraternization has watered down sports' best rivalries, and it's diluting what was once an insidious battle between Boston and Philadelphia for historical, cultural and sporting dominance. Worse, Citizens Bank Park — a glistening beauty in South Philly and one of the most fearsome places to play in the postseason — isn't on anyone's bucket list. What they're saying: Hear me out, you say, Pennsylvania? So I did, turning to Axios Boston's Steph Solis for guidance. What's so great about Fenway Park that we must debase ourselves in their glory? "Even as a baseball-agnostic transplant, I've got to appreciate the charm of having a brick-style ballpark in the middle of the city," Solis tells me. Threat level: Whatever happened to standing on business? You think Nick Foles would've handed Ken Doll-looking Tom Brady the Lombardi Trophy in 2018? No, he still rubs in that epic takedown of the Patriots every effing chance he gets. No, for the love of beer, he'd splash a Sam Adams lager in his face.
The Verge
29-05-2025
- Business
- The Verge
How private equity kills companies and communities
Today, I'm talking with Megan Greenwell, a former top editor at Wired and Deadspin, about her new book Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream. It comes out on June 10th, and it's a searing account of how private equity goes far beyond impacting failing businesses and deeply affects and transforms the lives of everyday Americans. Decoder is very much a show about the systems and frameworks that explain tech, policy, and business, and that means we've talked about private equity a number of times on the show. Private equity is everywhere across the business landscape, even though its massive influence on how so many companies operate is pretty hidden from view. But once you see it, you start to notice it everywhere, and it's incredibly validating to hear that so many people have had similar experiences with companies managed by private equity. I know this, because it's in our numbers and the feedback we get here on Decoder — our 2023 episode with lawyer and author Brendan Ballou about his book on private equity, Plunder, is one of our most popular episodes. Megan's interest in private equity came from her experience as editor-in-chief of Deadspin, the famous and now-defunct sports and culture website. Deadspin was part of Gawker, and Gawker was taken over by a private equity firm called Great Hill Partners, which began to immediately micromanage Deadspin 's content. That was when Megan first realized that the goals and financial results of a private equity firm were very disconnected from the goals and financial results of the companies it had taken over. Listen to Decoder, a show hosted by The Verge 's Nilay Patel about big ideas — and other problems. Subscribe here! Megan's book is a deep dive into the private equity industry, as expressed in four parts of the economy: retail, media, housing, and — maybe the most maddening of them all — healthcare. My family has a lot of doctors in it, and I've heard so much about how private equity has changed healthcare in the US. You'll hear Megan connect the dots between the financialization of healthcare and the poor experiences many people have with healthcare today. We also spent some time talking about the history of private equity, and the throughline from the New York City real estate world that gave birth to Donald Trump all the way to the private equity industry of today. I think you'll find there is a surprising amount of history here that really does help explain not just how the incentives of finance have come to dominate the American way of life, but also how it's seeped into the highest levels of the government. Perhaps most surprisingly, you'll hear Megan take great pains to differentiate private equity from venture capital, which is very different — and with very different problems. I always really enjoy talking to other editors, especially about something they're so curious about. Let me know what you think about this one. I suspect you will have a lot to say. If you'd like to read more on what we talked about in this episode, check out the links below:
Hamilton Spectator
22-05-2025
- Business
- Hamilton Spectator
Book Review: Veteran journalist explores impact of private equity industry on US society
Megan Greenwell was the editor in chief of Deadspin when it was acquired in 2019 by a Boston-based private equity firm. After three months of watching her new bosses make what seemed to her to be boneheaded decisions, she quit. Two months later, the staff followed her out the door. Within five years, the once popular online sports magazine known for its irreverent reporting had been sold to an obscure Maltese website. Stunned by what she witnessed, the veteran journalist was determined to get to the bottom of a little understood, lightly regulated industry that owns hospitals, day care centers, supermarket chains, newspapers, commercial and residential real estate, and much more. The big names are Blackstone, the Carlyle Group, Apollo Global Management, KKR and Cerberus Capital Management. But what, she wondered, do they actually do? The result of her inquiry is 'Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream,' a deeply reported, briskly paced and highly disturbing account of how the private equity industry has 'reshaped the American economy to serve its own interests, creating a new class of billionaires while stripping ordinary people of their livelihoods, their health care, their homes, and their sense of security.' Instead of focusing on the macroeconomic level, she tells the story through four remarkable people whose lives were upended after private equity acquisitions. Liz was a Toys R Us floor supervisor when the storied retailer was acquired by Mitt Romney's company, Bain Capital, and other investors and eventually went under, laying off 33,000 employees without severance pay. Roger practiced medicine in rural Wyoming when private equity acquired his hospital and gutted services. Natalia was working for local Gannett newspapers at a time when the chain eliminated more than half its staff after years of private equity ownership. And Loren, an affordable housing organizer, escaped public housing only to end up in a mold- and rodent-infested apartment complex in northern Virginia owned by a private equity firm on the other side of the continent. Greenwell has written an essential guide to an industry that operates largely in the shadows, donates generously to Democrats and Republicans in Congress to keep it that way, and has contributed substantially to the hollowing out of the American dream. Despite her immersion in this predatory world, she remains surprisingly optimistic. 'Every year,' she writes, 'a few more people like Liz, Roger, Natalia and Loren start fighting back.' ___ AP book reviews:
