Needed: more sports reporters with biz backgrounds?

In a recent column for AOL Sports, Michael David Smith wonders if NFL reporter Peter King's SI.com column on proposed fees for Giant season ticket holders was too soft.
King's story details John Mara's sadness over forcing season ticket holders to pay thousands of dollars for personal seat licenses if they want to keep their season tickets when the Giants move into a new stadium in two years.
Smith says, in the process, King made Mara sound like a martyr.
That made him wonder if more sports reporters should come to the beat equip with a business journalism background.
From the column:

Sports fans would get much more insightful coverage if the sports media took a more skeptical view of team owners. As far as owners are concerned, their teams are businesses, and they're in the business of making money. Why is it so hard for so many members of the sports media to understand that?

Maybe we need more sports reporters whose background is in business journalism. I'm sure oil company executives would claim they feel the same way about high gas prices that King thinks Mara feels about personal seat licenses: Of course, those oil executives would say, they feel terrible about making record profits while gas prices reach record highs. The difference is that no business reporter would ever be naive enough to believe them.

For the full column click here.