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Cities will fall all over themselves to serve up tax abatements, new stadiums, and bond issues in order to attract or retain professional sports teams. All these expensive goodies must come out of the cities' purses and hence out of the taxpayers' pockets. Their direct beneficiaries are wealthy franchise owners...
The TV question of the moment is whether Letterman's offbeat, sometimes abrasive style will work at 11:30, where the mainstream audience is more accustomed to the enthusiasm that Carson (and now Leno) brought to the job of helping celebrities promote their new movies. Industry prognosticators are cautious, if...
Selig says he is just being realistic about baseball's mounting problems with finances and popularity. One supposes he should know about such problems from the way he has mismanaged his own franchise. The Brewers, in fact, currently have the worst record in the American League and a severely dwindling...
Without a true commissioner, for example, owners regularly violate the public trust. The San Diego Padres owner, Tom Werner, who is a TV producer, has deliberately run the franchise into the ground. Werner began the season with the National League's batting champion (Gary Sheffield) and home run leader (Fred...
Loan for investment in Gloria Jean's coffee-bean franchise