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SPORTS, YOU'RE NEXT! "LARRY KING LIVE" EXAMINES INDUSTRY

          The "state of sports" was examined on CNN's "Larry King
     Live," with guests Leigh Steinberg, Charles Barkley, Mike
     Lupica, Frank Gifford and Bob Costas.  Lupica: "We've lost
     our way in sports. ... we do have a value problem in sports,
     and one of the reasons that people were so quick to judge
     Erik Williams and Michael Irvin, is because we have come to
     believe and expect the worst from these guys."  Barkley: "We
     are all losing. ... Players look at it as mainly business
     and the owners have always looked at it as business.  And I
     think that we are all guilty."  Costas: "It is harder to
     feel affection for sports and a real connection to sports,
     harder than it used to be when we were kids. ... When you've
     got to pay the outrageous ticket prices that exist now, and
     then personal seat licenses on top of it in some cases, and
     when more and more of the games are going to cable TV or
     even to pay TV, you're creating almost an aristocracy among
     sports fans and you're pushing the little guy, who used to
     really identify with sports, you're pushing him out of the
     way, and something important is lost."  Steinberg: "Today we
     have a sports page that reads like the crime beat section,
     and every single drunk driving [and] domestic violence case
     is pushed into the face of fans and it doesn't represent the
     typical life of fifteen hundred players in the National
     Football League or Major League Baseball" (CNN, 1/15).

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