Guest post. This post is part of series of posts written by my sport management students and is cross-posted on the UMass Center for Spectator Sport Research blog. The authors of this post are Lilah Brown, Dan Hatman, Oleg Kamenetsky, Miha Kline, Ariel Weisman. To put the current negotiations in perspective you need to look [...]
NFL receiver Derrick Mason recently gave an interview to Kevin Van Valkenburg of The Baltimore Sun. In one paragraph, he succinctly states the problem with putting false hope in sport franchises as engines of economic development. If only city council members, state officials, and the general voting public would agree, we could reduce** “franchise free agency” [...]
I tend to be critical of the media, particularly those in the sport media. It’s therefore only right that I salute those who I feel are doing a good job. One of the best college football blogs is written by Matt Hinton: Dr. Saturday (or how I learned to stop worrying and love the BCS). [...]
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