NFL Draft

Turns out the overblown, unnecessary annual hoopla costs its host city more than it's worth.

• By Wes Judd

A close look at the words used to describe white and black athletes in scouting reports.

• By Stewart Prest

The basic economics of the draft—first-round picks are overvalued; the more players you draft, the better—are well known, but general managers still manage to ignore them. What once might have been an economic issue has become a psychological one.

• By Aaron Gordon