Let’s talk about “sports”—that thing where we gather around to watch a muscular stranger put a regulation-size ball in a specific location.

Why are taxpayers forced to pony up cash for athletic ventures that don’t benefit them? Franchise owners routinely extort massive stadium subsidies through threats of relocation and fake promises of economic revitalization. Universities jack up student rates to subsidize athletic programs that should be self-sustaining. And the Olympics is economically devastating to every municipality foolish enough to get suckered by one of the oldest scams around.

Mostly Weekly host Andrew Heaton explores the sports phenomenon and why we should quit throwing other people’s money at it.

Links, past episodes, and more at https://reason.com/reasontv/2017/08/25/stop-subsidizing-sports

Script by Sarah Siskind with writing assistant from Andrew Heaton and David Fried.
Edited by Austin Bragg and Siskind.
Produced by Meredith and Austin Bragg.
Theme Song: Frozen by Surfer Blood.

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This wasn’t the type of drama Edgar Berlanga had hoped for on Saturday night.

The highly touted super middleweight prospect found himself on the canvas after a ninth-round knockdown, but he battled back to defeat a resilient Marcelo Coceres in their 10-round bout at T-Mobile Arena. While Brooklyn’s Berlanga won by unanimous decision, going the distance with Coceres—whom Billy Joe Saunders had previously stopped—and getting knocked down raised concerns about Berlanga’s future potential.

Despite Coceres exposing some defensive vulnerabilities, judges Eric Cheek, Patricia Morse Jarman, and Ricardo Ocasio all scored the fight 96-93 in Berlanga’s favor on the Tyson Fury-Deontay Wilder undercard.

Berlanga (18-0, 16 KOs) entered the ring as a heavy 60-1 favorite, according to Caesars Sportsbook. However, the durable Coceres (30-3-1, 16 KOs) became the second consecutive opponent to push Berlanga the full distance.

Berlanga, 24, gained widespread attention for knocking out his first 16 professional opponents in the opening round. That streak ended in his previous fight when Demond Nicholson took him the eight-round distance on April 24 in Kissimmee, Florida.

Coceres’ most notable achievement before Saturday was giving Billy Joe Saunders a tough test in their WBO super middleweight title bout two years prior. Saunders (30-1, 14 KOs) was trailing on one scorecard before scoring an 11th-round knockout at Staples Center in Los Angeles.

By the start of the 10th round, Berlanga appeared to have fully recovered from the knockdown late in the ninth round. Earlier, a right uppercut from Berlanga forced Coceres

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