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  • The Politics Of Sports Business 2025

    Sports: The Business and Politics of Sports, #0

    by Evan Weiner ...
    Series Book 0 - Sports: The Business and Politics of Sports
    In 2025, college administrators and politicians tried to stop college sports from continuing its path to becoming professional sports and failed. , Major League Baseball and its players edged closer to a 2026 lockout or strike in their labor pronouncements. The National Football League continued its TV supremacy and topped off the year with the state of Kansas sending more than a billion dollars ... Read more

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  • America's Passion: How a Coal Miner's Game Became the NFL in the 20th Century

    Sports: The Business and Politics of Sports, #1

    by Evan Weiner ...
    Series Book 1 - Sports: The Business and Politics of Sports
    The NFL started in 1920, teams came and went. That history would repeat itself in the 1930s and the 1940s. Stability finally occurred in the 1950s with the arrival of television. Television transformed North American sports. In 1950, Baseball, Boxing and Horse Racing were among the most popular sporting events in the country. Within 10 years, football, the NFL, would begin its ascent and by 1965 ... Read more

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  • 2014 Edition: The Business & Politics of Sports

    by Evan Weiner ...
    Series series 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 and Politics of Sports

    by Evan Weiner ...
    Series series 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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  • The Stern Years: 1984-2014

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

    by Evan Weiner ...
    Series series 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 Politics Of Sports Business 2024

    Sports: The Business and Politics of Sports

    by Evan Weiner ...
    Series series Sports: The Business and Politics of Sports
    In 2024, college sports turned pro, Major League Baseball did not solve its Oakland and Tampa Bay problems. The National Football League continued its TV supremacy, the National Hockey League got rid of its Phoenix problem. Women's sports enter the mainstream. of American and Canadian sports society.The root of sports success remains in getting public money, revenue from cable TV or streaming ... Read more

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  • I Am Not Paul Bunyan And Other Tall Tales

    Sports: The Business and Politics of Sports, #7

    by Evan Weiner ...
    Series Book 7 - 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 2023

    by Evan Weiner ...
    Series series Sports: The Business and Politics of Sports
    A look at the most compelling sports business stories from around the world in 2023. From public dollars going to sports venues to the relocation of a Major League Baseball franchise from Oakland to Las Vegas to discussions on how to proceed with the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics with a war going on between Russia amd Ukraine. Also included is the business of college sports, the collapse of Ballys ... Read more

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  • The Politics Of Sports Business 2022

    by Evan Weiner ...
    Series series Sports: The Business and Politics of Sports
    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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  • From Peach Baskets to Dance Halls and the Not-so-Stern NBA

    by Evan Weiner ...
    Series series 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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  • The Politics of Sports Business 2021

    Sports: The Business and Politics of Sports, #12

    by Evan Weiner ...
    Series Book 12 - Sports: The Business and Politics of Sports
    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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