Sports stadium deals hand even more taxpayer money to billionaires‎

Jan. 12—When Washington, D.C., agreed to hand over billions in land and tax breaks for a new Commanders football stadium, experts thought it would long remain an outlier in sweetheart deals for sports teams. But just months later, attention turned to Kansas, where officials in December announced plans to fund 60% of a new stadium for the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs. The state committed to ...