{"id":160668,"date":"2025-07-10T12:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T12:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/160668\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T12:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T12:13:13","slug":"what-we-lose-with-relentless-expansion-of-sports-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/160668\/","title":{"rendered":"What we lose with relentless expansion of sports schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We already have a 12-team baseball postseason, an NBA play-in round, a 12-team college football playoff, an NFL Super Wild Card Weekend after a 17-game season, a Club World Cup and a 48-team World Cup. The NHL, MLS and WNBA have all either expanded recently, will expand again soon or both. Formula 1, which for decades ran between 14 and 18 races per year, is up to 24 in 21 different countries.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s not altogether surprising that every league, everywhere, is looking to add more.<\/p>\n<p>The NCAA men\u2019s basketball committee is voting this week on whether to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/29\/sports\/ncaa-looking-to-expand-march-madness-as-soon-as-next-season-in-shocker\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expand their tournament field from 68 to either 72 or 76 teams<\/a>, and the women\u2019s March Madness field is expected to grow as well.<\/p>\n<p>The NHL\u2019s new collective bargaining agreement, officially ratified Tuesday, includes a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/27\/sports\/nhl-nhlpa-reach-labor-peace-and-sign-four-year-cba\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">move to an 84-game regular season<\/a> starting in 2026-27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We already have a 12-team baseball postseason, an NBA play-in round, a 12-team college football playoff, an NFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,4517,217,5486,12485,7456,231,772,1544,3823,66,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-160668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-beyond-the-back-page","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-college-football","12":"tag-college-football-playoff","13":"tag-march-madness","14":"tag-ncaa","15":"tag-ncaa-basketball","16":"tag-ncaab","17":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114828883266477111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}