College sports is now a giant business, and the contracts and budgets that explain it are public records nobody has time to collect. One laid-off reporter built a newsletter around them that brings in more than $200,000 a year. The readers pay $9. The schools pay $3,000.

Every winter, snowplows flatten curbside mailboxes, and every spring the survivors lean a little more. Homeowners want a straight, good-looking mailbox and don't want to dig the hole. One Iowa installer has put in more than 500 since 2023.

Cities, schools and state offices auction off their old stuff by the pallet, and almost nobody bids. One reseller's member paid $1 for two pallets of books and sold about $5,000 of them in a month. Here's how the surplus flip works.