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...right. But some analysts believe baseball's business decisions will cost the sport down the road. "They gave up too much equity," says Marc Ganis, president of SportsCorp Ltd., a consulting firm. "The initial wide distribution is a great short-term benefit. But it's almost like they're assuming they would not have grown. They could have gotten into 50 million homes and beyond without sacrificing one-third of the ownership. Major sports programming is something viewers will always find...
...without enough compelling programming, those 50 million households won't keep watching. Baseball's daily rhythms do give the MLB Network an inherent advantage over other single-sport channels. During the season, every team plays almost every night, so fantasy players, stat geeks and casual fans will have a reason to keep tuning in. "Baseball really has so much more going on, day in and day out, than the other sports, especially football," says David Carter, director of the Sports Business Institute at the University of Southern California...
...knowledge, we've never canceled one for bad weather. Last Sunday, it was 65° if you recall; that's almost reason enough to cancel. But we enjoy it all the time, any time. Sometimes you just have to take the good with the bad and put up with some lousy 65° weather. [Laughs...
...close to his ball, Obama turned to the crowd and said, "Hey guys. That was pretty good right? That almost made up for my 20 yard drive." That drew applause and laughter and prompted one member of the crowd to shout, "Better than your bowling," in reference to Obama's 33 score during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania earlier this year. Obama replied, "That's right," and smiled and laughed before turning back to walk toward the green to size up his putt...
Trauma from the election and fears of what's to come has fueled a deep skepticism among Kenyans, who almost universally believe that their leaders used them as pawns during that time. People belonging to most of Kenya's 42 ethnicities have horror stories from the chaos that followed. There was the rape victim who identified her attacker to police and was simply told to hire a gang and hunt the man down. A shopkeeper in Naivasha fled his home and later saw his attackers wearing the shoes he left behind. People starved to death in Nairobi slums because their...