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Prof gives 'F' to MLB owners
H ow about this for an opinion? "Baseball has survived in spite of the collective stupidity of its owners over the last hundred years." Those are the words of David Bohmer, who just this month inaugurated and is now teaching a course called "Baseba ...
No medals for drug testing
T he 2002 Winter Olympics will schuss off next week in Salt Lake City under a different drug-testing administration than the one that oversaw that function in previous Games, but hype-seeking athletes needn't worry about it. So far, the new gang h ...
Tags: Opinion
12 ways we'll rebound in 2002
T he sports and entertainment industry, along with the U.S. economy and American morale, took a hit in 2001. I look for a rebound on all fronts in 2002 led by the positive impact of major events and a continued love affair with all things sports and ...
Tags: Action Sports, Baseball, Basketball, Football, Golf, Opinion, Winter Sports
Tough racial barrier falls at N.D.
N otre Dame may have cracked one of sports' toughest racial barriers by hiring Tyrone Willingham as its head football coach on New Year's Day. While there have been a handful of other African-American head coaches in college football, this is sports ...
Tags: Opinion
Moss revealed some truths
M ost major honors for the National Football League season await the outcome of the current playoffs, but the one for most memorable quote was nailed down more than a month ago. Randy Moss, the Minnesota Vikings' talented and highly paid young pass ...
Tags: Opinion
Critique of MLB finances lacking
O ver the past several years, a number of officials in the commissioner's office (including me) have received communications from Professor Andrew Zimbalist proclaiming his neutrality as an observer of the economics of professional sports, specifica ...
Déjà vu all over again for MLB
T he calendar now reads 2002 and further informs us that baseball spring training is scheduled to begin in just over a month. The sports pages tell us that negotiations for a contract between the players and team owners, to replace the one that expi ...
Tags: Opinion
PR e-mail technique right on
From a PR standpoint, I could not agree with Wayne Henninger more. I am referring to one of his recent articles in Street & Smith's SportsBusiness Journal [PR Watch column, Dec. 17] about public relations folks sending information to media via e-mail. ...
