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		<title>Inside the sports industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 03:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the night of Saturday 16 December 2000 the crowd at the Sheffield Arena must have been stunned when Paul Ingle&#8217;s corner forced him back to the centre of the ring to be savagely crushed by his opponent Mbulelo Botile of South Africa. Even one of the commentators remarked that the decision of Ingle&#8217;s managers was shockingly unreasonable. Not unexpectedly, Ingle was carried unconscious to hospital with brain injuries. At the end of round 11 everybody, more especially Ingle&#8217;s corner, knew he had lost the bout. The question on the lips of many was why the towel was not thrown in. But how could they do that when they were playing according to the rules of today&#8217;s international sports—the cash and fame first before the contender. In fact Ingle&#8217;s corner callously hoped that their man could miraculously pull a knock-out. Gone are the days when games were organised with a view to merely entertaining the audience. In our day the motive behind any activity sports included, is profit. If, in the process of any sporting activity people get entertained, it is an unintended outcome of a purely business-oriented venture. In reality sport is now a multi-billion dollar industry masquerading as [...]


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		<title>Who are your Heroes?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, over 1,000,000 homes watched the congressional hearings on steroid use in baseball earlier this month, which I guess puts the steroid issue in the category of important issue. For me, this is only another controversy during spring training, which means that the regular season is just around the corner (I got my tickets already) Anyway, some of baseballs biggest stars showed up for the hearing, including 2004 World Series hero Curt Schilling, and homerun whoppers Sammy Sosa and Marc McGwire. There were of course the typical questions we all get asked at congressional hearing, have you ever taken steroids, have you ever seen anyone take steroids, yada, yada, yada and the like. However, the testimony that most interested me was from the parents of high school baseball player steroid users who killed themselves, most likely being helped by the depression that steroids can cause. The parents referred to baseball players who used steroids not just as cheaters but as cowards as well. However, I must disagree. Sosa and McGwire rejuvenated baseball in 1998 with their single season homerun record chase, bringing fans back to the stadiums after the dreaded 1994 players strike. The result of this is interesting. Not [...]


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		<title>I HATE Jose Canseco!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The date, October 1988. I am 12 years old and I see on TV Kirk Gibson hit the amazing pinch-hit homerun against the Oakland Athletics at Dodger Stadium to win the first game of the 1988 World Series. While I have always been a Dodger fan, I for a long time have hated Jose Canseco, who played outfield for the Oakland A’s. He was cocky and arrogant, and I couldn’t stand him. And now with his new book, I think I hate him even more. In his new book, which became a best seller on its first day of sales, Canseco charges numerous players of using steroids and owners (including Pres Shrub), coaches, and trainers of knowing full well of their use by players. Now, I will come out and say that I have not read the book myself. But I am not judging the book, I am judging the author, and while I think Canseco is simply throwing out names to put himself back out in the spot light, the book has come out in a time when steroid use in baseball gets as much press as players reporting to spring training camp this week. The problem with steroids [...]


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		<title>Billionare Hardball</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 1994 01:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The summer of 1994 saw &#8220;America&#8217;s pastime&#8221; jettisoned at mid-season. This marked a most bizarre, and even to this day, unpredictable turn of events. Compounding the confusion and bitter bewilderment of baseball fans all across America was the startling fact that both sides in the conflict &#8212; the team owners and the players &#8212; were making more money, prior to the strike, than any of their predecessors. &#160; Karl Marx would have been most amused at the spectacle of millionaires who &#8220;labor&#8221; at playing a kids games six months out of the year striking against billionaires who could spend $5,000 a day for over a thousand years and still have money to spend for a couple of thousand more years; squabbling over who should get what future increased percentage of future revenues. In the post-atomic age of the microchip technological revolution, supply-side economic theorems, etc., the class struggle lives on. &#160; Cold shower &#160; It ground to a halt, in this sacred bastion of the American culture, the voyeuristic enthusiasm of millions of Mike and Mary Middleclass&#8217;s (much to their dismay), who would daily cram into stadiums and sports bars, spending over a billion dollars annually on things related to [...]


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