Mark Yost has reported on sports and business for nearly twenty years. He has written for the Dow Jones Newswire and the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal. Yost continues to write for the Wall Street Journal Leisure and Arts pages, where he writes about the business and economics of sports, as well as Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal and other publications. Yost is also the author of Tailgating, Sacks, and Salary Caps: How the NFL Became the Most Successful Sports League in History. He lives in Lake Elmo, Minnesota, but calls Brooklyn, New York, his home.