Major League Baseball (MLB) appears to be hurting financially. The signs were there, or more correctly, notthere, from the time that we landed at the airport in Indianapolis, site of this year’s Baseball Winter Meetings, which concluded on Thursday.
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Is Major League Baseball Going Broke? Why American Needle Makes Sports Leagues Nervous
In 2009, Baseball, Corporatocracy, Football, MLB, NFL, Sports on December 12, 2009 at 11:44 amBaseball Commissioner Bud Selig Should Resign After Making Mockery of MLB Anti-Doping
In 2009, Baseball, Bud Selig, Corporatocracy, MLB, Sports on September 20, 2009 at 7:58 pm
(Opinion) Commissioner Allan Huber (Bud) Selig should resign. This isn’t the first time anyone has said that, but, in the wake of a drug-suspension-shaving scandal that we uncovered at MLN Sports over the last 2-1/2 months, I am hoping that it will be the last.
As we reported in our investigative feature story ”At What Cost Peace,” appearing in the current edition of SZ (www.mlnsports.com), there are no rules covering drug use in baseball.
None.
Is the First Amendment Safe When the Message Owns the Media?
In 2009, ABC News, Baseball, Boston Globe, CBS News, Constitution, Corporatocracy, ESPN, First Amendment, Football, Fox News, Fox Sports, Keith Olbermann, Media, Media News & Criticism, MLB, NBC News, Newspapers, NFL, Political Punditry, Yankees on August 15, 2009 at 11:08 am
Is there a First Amendment right to cover sports news?
American sports do not seem like the place for a show-down on the freedom of the press, but that is exactly why the unraveling of the First Amendment began there. Media purists from the “real” news side did not see the slippery slope sliding, just as they missed the impact of the Internet.
If You Think A-Rod is the Doper, the Bigger Addicts are MLB and YOU.
In Baseball, MLB, Sports on February 12, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Sadly, Major League Baseball (MLB) is plagued with addiction, but it is not the players who are hooked on performance-enhancing substances (PES); It is the fans who are addicted to the homerun ball, and the MLB owners who are hooked to the power and money that flows from the real addiction driving this ends-justify-the-means version of professional baseball.
Elegy for a Lightweight – An Epitaph for John Henry Williams
In Baseball, Sports on February 8, 2004 at 7:24 pm
Let us finally put to rest one myth: Ted Williams was not frozen by his evil son, John Henry Williams.
That is a bit of lore cooked up by the sports media that was marching behind Sport Illustrated‘s Tom Verducci back in the day with their pitchforks and torches.
They did not like the idea of their baseball hero’s head stored frozen in a milk jug waiting for its guest appearance on Futurama.
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