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As brawls goes, it was hardly the worst that sport has to offer. Europeans accustomed to soccer's bloodbaths must have been chuckling: You call that a riot? In five minutes of mayhem that was repeated thousands of times on TV, Indiana Pacers forward Ron Artest was seen leading a fast break into the stands at the Palace in Auburn Hills, Mich. Artest was charging down a local lout, John Green, who hit him with a full beverage cup after Artest got into an on-court scuffle with the Detroit Pistons' Ben Wallace. Several teammates joined Artest, punching anyone...
With such fat TV contracts--and a labor agreement that includes an escape-proof salary cap--isn't the NFL virtually guaranteed to make piles of money? Not really: Europeans love their football (soccer) just as much, yet their leagues and team owners lose gobs of money. For instance, Italy's top league, the Serie A, is a mess. Several teams have gone bust, and one famous team, Lazio (the New York Jets of Rome), was forced to sell off top players to stay afloatthis despite big television contracts. "I've negotiated deals with all the major leagues...
...with the game. After every change of possession, players shuffle on and off the field: commercial time! After every score, again: commercial time! The ads fit into the flow instead of disrupting it, unlike, say, basketball, in which "TV" time-outs crop up out of nowhere, or hockey and soccer, in which every minute-long stoppage is artificial...
PENALTY KICK: Fan violence is worse--and much more common--at soccer games in Europe...
Bolds-Jackson is one rare instructor. With the growth of girls' sports over the past 30 years, female coaches have become increasingly common in most sports--some guiding high school and college squads, others leading a daughter's youth-soccer team to a title. Last season 12% of the Youth Basketball Organization's 4,300 coaching members were women, which is double the percentage five years earlier. Over the same period, the percentage of female coaches in U.S. youth soccer grew from about...