Bad sports : how owners are ruining the games we love /
This book is a look at the big business and immoral practices behind professional sports. The fastest growing sector of today's sports audience is the alienated fan. Complaints abound: from inflated ticket prices, $6 hot dogs, and $9 beers to owners endlessly demanding new multimillion dollar s...
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New York :
Scribner,
[2010]
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| Edition: | 1st Scribner hardcover ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Diogenes in high tops
- When domes attack
- Business, never personal
- The Keyser Soze principle
- The Boss: George Steinbrenner as throwback and role model
- Clay Bennett, the Seattle SuperSonics, and the questions of ownership
- Money laundering for the Lord : Charlie Monfort and Dick DeVos keep the faith
- Peter Angelos and the shredding of the Oriole way
- Dan Snyder : when Constanza got hair
- Donald Sterling : slumlord billionaire
- The Wal-Mart way : David Glass and the Kansas City Royals
- James Dolan : serpent in Eden
- The NHL : skating on slush?
- The unholy grail of the Paulsons
- For a few steroids more
- "What's a scouser?" : Tom Hicks goes European
- Outro : looking toward Green Bay.