Neil deMause, co-author with Joanna Cagan of Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit, explains for John J. Miller the crime behind the title: “You’ve got sport stadiums/arenas going up all over this country, involving mostly public money, and . . . the return on all this money is all going to private hands. So you basically got taxpayers paying for buildings that are benefiting the owners of sports teams.”