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This case might provide some precedent; https://www.reuters.com/article/eu-isu-skating-antitrust-idUSL1N2IW0XE The difference being that one sport is watched by billions of people, and the other by about three...the event in this case never took place, and the promoters had little more than...

My understanding (from a few years ago, so maybe I misremember pieces, or something has changed [which it may well have with Covid-19 adjustments to the deal between players and teams]) is that the players own the gate for the playoffs in lieu of receiving salary - to the point where team execs...

Minus Callaway and Porter, we’d probably never have heard of DeVito and Newman...which to me means almost every team probably has a few DeVitos and Newmans - creepy, bothersome and inappropriate, but not high profile or over-the-line enough on their own to merit media attention (yet). If I were...

It was not a today only comment...the people responsible for today’s postponement need somewhat more serious consequence than a sternly worded memo.

Whatever genius decided to build a new ballpark in Minnesota during the 21st century without some sort of roof needs to receive a sternly worded memo.

When you say “Braves Owner”, who are you actually talking about, because as best I can tell they’re owned by Liberty Media...?

I doubt the Braves are all that devastated...this isn’t exactly the best year to be hosting! They’ll be more than happy to let the politics play themselves out and take it another year when things are less Covidy.

Dr. G.J. van Ingen Shenau of the Free University Amsterdam did research in the 80s...and this was one of his conclusions. He’s the guy who did the research that led to the development of the klap-skate that changed long track speed skating...so he’s pretty credible.

The actual makeup of blade material is way over-rated. Friction between ice and blade makes up a tiny component of actual resistance when you skate compared to air. Wearing a tighter jersey and pants, and staying away from those big bulky old-school socks will help more than paying boatload for...

I stand by the premise. Even if females were “allowed” to play hockey, the general desire line was still that they still shouldn’t - hence the invention of ringette. The sport was born of a now archaic societal perception, if not a specific and direct exclusion.

I don’t understand why people don’t find the existence of ringette to be fundamentally offensive. It was basically invented as a watered-down version of ice hockey, for the ladies, because OBVIOUSLY they can’t play hockey! Same for softball, it was literally invented as a “softer” version of...

Mori replaced, not surprisingly, by a woman; Seiko Hashimoto. https://sports.yahoo.com/seiko-hashimoto-appointed-president-tokyo-110901072.html?soc_src=community&soc_trk=fb

Exactly. So instead of mid-size towns across America having low pay pro baseball to watch, they’ll see the same players either paying to play or playing for free. Same stadiums, hot dogs and mascots, though...

Shame, too, because those who run less well known sports would better serve their sport by using the Olympic Games as a showcase to how to grow and spread their sport through moderate and reasonable facilities that are used as community assets around the world, every year. If they did that...

So basically like how every sport has a World Championship every year, but re-branded and scheduled within a two-week period?

IOC would never move basketball into any part of the calendar that conflicts with NBA ply. I think we need to recognize that for the most part now, every Olympic venue is really just a TV studio, and can be scaled to accommodate that, while also functioning as an actually sustainable facility...

Maybe this would be a good opportunity for the IOC to experiment with scaling down the Games, to the point where they’re a functional set of sports events instead of the grotesquely enormous and completely unsustainable thing they’ve grown to be. Simpler venues, smaller crowds, less on-site...

They’re only having it there BECAUSE of Covid, so...

Independent professional baseball just doesn’t make economic sense. Why pay guys to be independent pros when college kids are willing to pay to wear the same uniforms in the same stadiums and fans in those towns are willing to pay to watch them, and pay to eat the same hot dogs and drink the...

I have had this conversation with people in the Olympic sport world. In general they supported the concept - until two words changed their minds; “Betsy” and “DeVos” In all seriousness, the concept puts everything at the whim of the politics of the day - and subject to the acts of the...