In the latest episode of Mostly Weekly, we're going to 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 generous stadium subsidies through threats of relocation. 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.

Host Andrew Heaton explores the sports phenomenon and why we should quit throwing other people's money at it.