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Whatever their motives, the growing legion of foreign owners of English clubs has pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into the transfer markets as teams compete to gain an edge. It's a cutthroat game, precisely because revenues are closely related to a team's performance: only the top four teams of the 20 in the English Premier League qualify for the European Champion's League, and United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool have in recent years established a lock on those four slots. But they have to win consistently to get there, and failure to do so can be financially...
...rate. Under Armour, which had $640 million in sales over the past year, had been scoring on the stock market too, making Plank's shares worth some $1 billion at the peak. But as Plank prepares to move the Under Armour brand out of its comfort zone into the cutthroat, $18.3 billion athletic-footwear market, he is exposing Under Armour's house to a tornado...
...also needed some time to get used to the shift from the more cooperative college atmosphere to the cutthroat competition of the national selection camps...
...seem contradictory, but it makes perfect sense. As cutthroat as the reality genre is, it has always had a touchy-feely side, dealing with relationship troubles, self-esteem issues and personal demons, all steeped in the pop-therapy language of personal growth through challenge. From Survivor to American Idol, reality's premise has been that what does not get you eliminated makes you stronger. The Amazing Race (which shares two producers with Big Give) is part contest, part couples' therapy. The pairs of players who race around the world--squabbling marrieds, doubtful fiancés, estranged parents and kids--regularly...
...topic, if only because its thesis is one rarely voiced in the media: the truth is, we just don’t care. At the end of the day, Barry Bonds is an incredible athlete, even if he was using steroids, and sports is hardly the only arena where cutthroat competition encourages a win-by-any-means mentality. But most of these insights are not especially earth-shattering. One of the pitfalls of writing a book for and about the Common Fan is that the Common Fan already knows most of what Leitch has to say. We know that owners...