The Long View Archive
Every Long View piece, grouped by theme, newest first in each section.
Money, rosters and player power
How salary caps, spending and player leverage decide who wins, and how long they keep winning.
The Salary Cap England Voted Down
How state money changed the Premier League, and why there’s no salary cap to stop it.
October 22, 2026
The Weight He Shouldn't Have to Carry
How Kansas City is retooling around Mahomes, and what the 90s Cowboys and 49ers can teach us about protecting a championship window.
August 27, 2026
Consent Required
Myles Garrett, Herschel Walker, and the forty-year shift in player leverage
August 13, 2026
Buy It or Build It
How college football and college basketball are learning the same lesson about roster building
July 30, 2026
How the World Builds a Soccer Player
Why baseball and hockey might be one bad decade away from soccer's problem
July 16, 2026
The Last League Without a Ceiling
Baseball's salary cap fight isn't just about money. It's about whether the sport learned anything the last time it went to war with itself.
July 2, 2026
How leagues decide things
The rules a sport plays by and the way it crowns a champion, and what history says happens when those change.
What the World Series Doesn't Prove
November 4, 2026
Who's Actually the Best Team?
Different leagues answer a different question when they crown a champion, and most fans never notice which one they're watching.
September 24, 2026
The Last Time Baseball Looked Like This, They Changed the Rules
Batting averages are at their lowest since 1968. History tells us what usually comes next.
June 4, 2026
Teams, places and people
Franchises leaving a city, a game without a home, and the weight a single name can carry.
The Moving Playbook
What the A's, the Rams, and four other franchises can teach us about how teams really leave a city.
October 8, 2026
Two Football Games
Arch Manning, the weight of a name, and what patience still buys in college football
September 10, 2026
The Game That Couldn't Find a Home
How a displaced basketball game reveals forty years of consequences nobody planned for
June 18, 2026