Cost of Sports TV Raises Stakes in Yankees, Comcast Fight – Wall Street Journal

America’s sports-rights bonanza is showing signs of age.

Since November, YES, the channel that airs New York Yankees games, has been blacked out on Comcast Corp. as the cable giant and the network’s parent, 21st Century Fox, battle over terms of payment.

In the off-season, it wasn’t a huge controversy. But as opening day—April 4 for the…