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1 month ago | 
institutionalinvestor.com | James Comtois |Alicia McElhaney |Aaron Timms
Brad Briner ran for North Carolina Treasurer on a platform to modernize the state’s investments. Now in office, he’s looking to make good on that campaign promise by revamping how the state manages its $127 billion retirement portfolio and restructuring the investment office. North Carolina is one of only three states alongside Connecticut and New York that rely on a single fiduciary to manage their pension funds.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
inkl.com | Aaron Timms
Lucas Bergvall hares off after scoring. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian SPURS GET HOTTER Tottenham get a lot of stick. Even the most hardened Spurs fan, mate, would agree they deserve a fair bit of it.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Aaron Timms
Won’t someone think of the streaming platforms? Wayne Rooney’s departure from Plymouth Argyle, after seven months and a winless run that left the club bottom of the Championship, not only suggests the former England star’s managerial career has reached its end – it’s also a signal of how contentious the fly-on-the-wall documentary has become in modern football.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Aaron Timms
Last week’s confirmation that Saudi Arabia will host the 2034 World Cup was met with a strangely muted reaction throughout the footballing world – and at the Fifa Congress itself, which took the form of an extended Zoom call.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Aaron Timms
In the grand churn of the money machine that is modern football, it ranks as a fairly small deal. But when Liverpool recently announced they will earn more than £60m ($76.3m) a year from a new kit deal with Adidas starting next season, the reaction from the club’s supporters across social media said a lot about the nature of modern fandom.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Aaron Timms
The last of the holdouts has fallen. A few weeks ago, the National Football League passed a resolution to allow private equity investment in individual teams, thereby bringing to an end to the league’s long resistance to the incursion of institutional capital. The NFL joins the National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer, all of which have opened up to institutional investment in recent years.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
nyra.nyc | Aaron Timms
THE SUN WAS SETTING on May 30, 2020, when French DJ David Guetta began live-streaming a set from Top of the Rock, the observation deck that crowns 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan. This was decks cubed, the deckiest of New York deck experiences: Guetta on decks on a deck. Five days earlier Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd after kneeling on his neck and back for nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Aaron Timms
The Cleveland Browns held an oddly celebratory press conference last week to announce the sale of the naming rights to their stadium to Huntington Bank, a regional bank headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. For the next 20 years, what was once Cleveland Browns Stadium will be known as Huntington Bank Field.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Aaron Timms
As the third quarter of the Cowboys’ dismissal of the Browns got under way on Sunday afternoon, Fox play-by-play anchor Kevin Burkhardt turned to his new on-air partner Tom Brady for guidance on what Cleveland needed to do to spark their limp offense into life. “How do they move the ball and get something going here?” Burkhardt asked, an issue on which the man widely considered the greatest quarterback of all time would, one assumes, have an original thought or two to offer the viewers at home.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Aaron Timms
Ever since Elon Musk bought Twitter and somehow made the tailoring guru Derek Guy - better known by his handle @dieworkwear - an internet star, men's wear has been the subject of more volcanically impassioned discussion online than ever. Where should the button on a suit jacket sit? Are brown shoes ever acceptable? Cargo shorts: yes or no? We are all critics of fit and silhouette now, pursing our lips in displeasure at every collar gap.
