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...Unlike the NBA and the NFL, with their seamless integration into popular entertainment, their close affinities with the vapid celebrity culture of glossy magazines and MTV, and their nationwide audiences, professional baseball has generally remained a local affair. Teams count their most loyal devotees almost entirely within the regional base, and only seldom are regular-season games broadcast to a wider audience. Americans may, in theory, value mobility: but when it comes to baseball, carpetbagging fans, for good reason, are often shunned and scorned...
...collection of ruminations on all things sports, bemoans what he sees as the loss of the sports fan’s influence in the sports industry. He claims today’s world of professional athletics is dominated by big money contracts and organizations like the NFL and ESPN whose inner-workings are hidden from the public eye.The problem with the book is that I’m not the type of fan he’s particularly interested in saving. He’s right that I, like most Mavs fans, am “still not over that...
...been America's player. There are Green Bay Packers fans from coast to coast. Why? Because Favre played for the love of the game, and it showed every time he got on the field. That's why he started 275 straight games. That's why he broke so many NFL records this past season. I watched with tears as he said his emotional farewell to football, and I don't consider myself a Cheesehead. I've never even had the pleasure of visiting Lambeau Field. Favre was an amazing and unique player, and he will be missed...
...football players Bill Hewitt and Desmond Howard. Hewitt competed professionally for both the Philadelphia Eagles and Chicago Bears, and entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971. Howard, currently an ESPN college football analyst, won the Heisman Trophy in 1991 and went on to play for five NFL teams over a 10 year period.Allard’s impressive athletic record places her among the best. As a valuable utility player, Allard made her home at third for the first half of her Wolverine career where she earned seemingly every honor short of the Heisman. Quick to face...
...believe that Michael Vick should be allowed to play in the NFL after his awful abuse of dogs in his care? -Giles Troy Page in Cary, N.C.I think mistreatment and cruelty to animals should be treated with the same seriousness as cruelty to people if not more. Animals are clearly never at fault...