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...think he’s won a significant amount of money, maybe $16[,000] or $32,000,” said Dorinda J. Carter, a friend of Reddick who is also a GSE student...
...film's U.S. release, the WUSA folded, citing crippling debt and $20 million in annual losses. Among other problems, the league spent itself into oblivion, having budgeted $40 million to finance its first five years yet laid out $100 million in the first three. Says industry consultant David Carter, founder of Sports Business Group, based in Redondo Beach, Calif.: "The WUSA blew through money like drunken dotcommers...
...teams and adds instability (see Yankees, New York, and Expos, Montreal, in baseball). But single-team ownership builds incentives to leverage local sponsors, a strategy the WUSA missed the first time. "It's really important for them to understand that soccer is a community-based sport," says sports consultant Carter. "Sure, it's nice to have national names like McDonald's on board. But it's also nice to have Joe's Service Station. You must create that local feel." DiCicco has proposed a salary cap to prevent one team from scooping up the stars...
...sport, the market is just too big for the sidelines. And as the first members of the Title IX generation become soccer moms over the next five to 10 years, the WUSA and other women's sports leagues will have ever greater chances of success. "America will support one," Carter says of a women's league. But don't start comparing it to the NFL: "It will be pretty low on the food chain, at least for a very long time," he notes. For the 11-year-old girl who emailed Foudy after the WUSA folded, offering to hold...
Since the invention of the word, however, a long line of Presidents have gone out of their way to avoid using it. Jimmy Carter resisted branding the Khmer Rouge with the term. Ronald Reagan avoided applying it to Saddam Hussein. The first President Bush refused to apply it to the Bosnian Serbs. And Bill Clinton skirted the label for Bosnia and Rwanda. State Department spokeswoman Christine Shelly became the face of Clinton's semantic wiggle when she tried to insist that, although hundreds of thousands of Rwandans had been butchered, only "acts" of genocide were occurring...