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  • The Politics Of Sports Business 2022

    by Evan Weiner ...
    The year 2022 featured an Olympics and a World Cup that were overshadowed by global events. Major League Baseball had a lockout but lost no regular season games. College sports continued to see conferences expand and college sports looked for a new boss. Professional golf sees a new men's tour begin backed by Saudi money. Major League Baseball could not solve its stadium situations in the Oakland ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Sports Business 2021

    by Evan Weiner ...
    2021: That was the year that was, it’s over and time to let it go. COVID-19 interfered with sports and Omicron forced sports delays and cancellations. Major League Baseball owners locked out its players over money issues. Television money propped up sports during the pandemic and television is a sports economic driver. The Olympics continued to be a political exercise. In the US and Canada, ... Read more

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  • COVID-19 Edition: The Politics Of Sports Business 2020

    by Evan Weiner ...
    The 2020 sports calendar was unlike any other calendar in the past century. The COVID-19 pandemic shut down not only athletic competitions but postponed an array of decisions that needed to be made by sports owners and politicians. A proposed baseball-stadium village complex on the Oakland waterfront was still on the table at the end of 2020. Halted by the pandemic. The government of Japan ... Read more

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  • The Politics Of Sports Business 2019

    by Evan Weiner ...
    This is another book of a series that takes a day to day look at the “Politics of Sports Business” in 2019, 365 commentaries and all of them are derived from one central thought. How sports operates with three absolute needs to be successful. Government backing. Money from television. Corporate support. It really does not matter if a sport is headquartered in the United States or in Switzerland. ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Sports Business 2018: Politicians, Business Leaders, Decision Makers, And Policy

    by Evan Weiner ...
    Sports is a big business. It features international products and depends on the public to operate. In the United States, sports owners and organizers need three things. Government, TV money and corporate support. Federal, state and local governments provide owners with tax breaks, tax incentives and in some cases cash hand outs to bring a sports franchise to town with the understanding the ... Read more

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  • I Am Not Paul Bunyan And Other Tall Tales

    by Evan Weiner ...
    series Sports: The Business and Politics of Sports
    Hockey players have stories. All you have to do is ask a question about something that happened and step back and allow them to talk. The stories seem to be neither exaggerated tall tales except the stories are neither exaggerated nor tall tales. The events happened. Gordie Howe did pick up someone by the nostrils. The Indianapolis police did issue an all-points bulletin looking for a missing ... Read more

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  • The Politics Of Sports Business 2017

    by Evan Weiner ...
    series Sports: The Business and Politics of Sports
    The long time commissioner of the National Basketball Association David Stern, who ran the NBA between 1984 and 2014, once noted that there are three basic needs for a team owner and a league to be successful. Government support. A large local TV contract. Corporate support. The large TV contract in the United States was a product of the 1984 Cable TV Act and the corporate support comes from ... Read more

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  • The Stern Years: 1984-2014

    by Evan Weiner ...
    Book 6 - Sports: The Business and Politics of Sports
    David Stern began his association with the National Basketball Association in 1966. The NBA of 1966 will never be confused with the NBA of February 1, 2014 when Stern retired after a 30 year reign as National Basketball Association commissioner. The NBA of 1966 still featured games played in non NBA city where a promoter threw a bunch of money at two teams and told the team owners come to our city ... Read more

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  • 2014 Edition: The Business & Politics of Sports

    by Evan Weiner ...
    Book 5 - Sports: The Business and Politics of Sports
    For many sports is a form of entertainment. People root for their team, although what they really are cheering is dirty laundry to use the words of the comedian Jerry Seinfeld. But sports is much more than that. Sports is powered by governments that make laws which regulate the business of sports. Most nations have Sports Ministers and sports is a government level position and concern. The e-book ... Read more

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  • The Business & Politics of Sports: A Selection of Columns by Evan Weiner Second Edition

    by Evan Weiner ...
    Book 4 - Sports: The Business and Politics of Sports
    The Business & Politics of Sports, Second Edition by Evan Weiner.Everybody in America is paying in some way for sports, whether it is through taxes, cable TV bills, tax breaks or incentives. In a selection of his columns spanning from 1998 to the present, award winning journalist Evan Weiner connects the dots and shows how business, politics and sports are so closely interwoven.Daniel A. Rascher, ... Read more

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  • The Business and Politics of Sports

    by Evan Weiner ...
    Book 3 - Sports: The Business and Politics of Sports
    The Business & Politics of Sports contains over 100 of Evan Weiner’s columns written between 1998 and 2005 that describe the power plays, players, media and political (federal, state and local) connections, which rule the 19 billion dollar a year business of sports. At the heart of Evan Weiner’s writing lies his belief that “it’s great to watch a game and report on it, but democracy deserves more ... Read more

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  • From Peach Baskets to Dance Halls and the Not-so-Stern NBA

    by Evan Weiner ...
    Book 2 - Sports: The Business and Politics of Sports
    In 2013, Basketball may or may not be the world's second most popular sport behind football (soccer) but the game's growth has exploded since the 1984 Olympics. Dr. James Naismith created the game in 1891 and while it was a popular game, the professional version of the sport did not do well. Leagues came and went. Some of the best teams in the early days didn't play in an organized league and ... Read more

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