The consultancy counted among its early clients several companies that wanted to know if their business practices violated anti-trust law.

BBC: You are in: Business

Anti-trust law is rooted in the assumption that powerful business entities will keep out new competitors if their rise is unchecked, but ESPN's ascent from weakling to sports behemoth proves that the present is a faulty predictor of the future.

FORBES: Political Economy

In short, a business that is already outside normal anti-trust law (thanks to an ancient ruling that treats each game as a discrete activity within a single state, and thus exempt from the laws of interstate commerce) would become even more like a cartel.

ECONOMIST: Damn Yankees