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As Sports Media Cheers On Athlete Boycotts, Fans Will Walk Away
The Federalist ^ | August 27, 2020 | Ben Domenech

Posted on 08/27/2020 9:31:00 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 08/27/2020 9:31:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Sports media cheers on the canceling of the very events they cover in order to earn their paychecks.

Just can’t fix that kind of stupid.


2 posted on 08/27/2020 9:33:14 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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White America could cripple pro sports if they chose to do so. Just saying ...


3 posted on 08/27/2020 9:34:03 AM PDT by CatOwner
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That’s one way to get those hugh contracts under control..

All those poor multimillionaire athletes.. so abused..so.. so.. soon to be unemployed.. permanently.


4 posted on 08/27/2020 9:34:42 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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this idiot exited tennis tournament..now she is going to play

unfair to Mertens her opponent

https://sports.yahoo.com/naomi-osaka-exits-tennis-tournament-161850204.html


5 posted on 08/27/2020 9:35:56 AM PDT by RummyChick (Stop Apologizing for things you didn't do. Stop Demanding Apologies when refuse to forgive)
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This fan walked away years ago when thugs replaced athletes.


6 posted on 08/27/2020 9:35:59 AM PDT by ryderann
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These sports “professionals” now start a game by effectively laying down our flag and taking an open poo on it, then say their effort was a protest against whites for blacks, for which on the field are black.

I know it is instead our National Anthem and the flag is raised, but the butt turning towards the flag or people looking away in shame is not much different.

These people, and the entire sports industry, are €£@^.


7 posted on 08/27/2020 9:38:41 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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Just to compare the athlete of old to the “superior” modern athlete: a 100 meter race between Jesse Owens and Usain Bolt on the same track, with the same shoes, and the same starting blocks, would be exceptionally close (it would be Bolt by less than a step, according to most analyses). Throw in the same dietary “supplements” or lack thereof, and you might have it the other way around.

Sports have outgrown their role and their usefulness. They are bloated, and COVID-19 is deadly to that sort of thing.


8 posted on 08/27/2020 9:39:16 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Biden has dementia.)
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I can’t ignore the NBA any more than I do.


9 posted on 08/27/2020 9:44:35 AM PDT by PGR88
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How long before they figure out that we watch sports to get away from the political crap, not have it rubbed in our faces?.............................


10 posted on 08/27/2020 9:44:42 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................)
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I’m cheering them on too. I hope that pro sports, as it’s been known during the last 60 years, disappears. It wouldn’t bother me in the slightest.


11 posted on 08/27/2020 9:47:41 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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Hoping the NHL still remains nuetral-


12 posted on 08/27/2020 9:48:07 AM PDT by slapshot ( Speaker Ryan was a sober and less tan version of John Boehner)
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Hey NBA racist thugs.

You are ENTERTAINMENT.

Nothing more.

No one needs ENTERTAINMENT. No one wants to be lectured to while paying for ENTERTAINMENT.

And the entertainment industry is HIGHLY competitive.

You run up and down a court chasing a ball.

You had no idea how good you had it.

Dumb mutherf+ckers.


13 posted on 08/27/2020 9:49:06 AM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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Hoping the NHL still remains nuetral

They were getting a lot of flack, being mostly white, for not following the leads of the NBA and MLB. Of course, the NBA has already backtracked.

14 posted on 08/27/2020 9:49:22 AM PDT by CatOwner
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15 posted on 08/27/2020 9:52:40 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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Yahoo Sports shut off comments. Then have sports columnists pontificate about how racist and hateful each sport is. I assume it will continue until after the election is over, then they will turn comments back on again. I am not going back to reading their web page.


16 posted on 08/27/2020 9:53:30 AM PDT by alternatives? (If our borders are not secure, why fund an army?)
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So looking forward to them finding out about “get woke, go broke” the hard way.


17 posted on 08/27/2020 9:58:04 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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White America could cripple pro sports if they chose to do so. Just saying ...

The trend I see is white people "going Galt" when it comes to pro sports. We're just walking away from it all.

The next few years are going to be problematic for the business of professional sports. Up until 6 months ago, their business models were based on double-digit revenue increases ad infinitum.

The only way for owners to recoup dollars lost this year is expansion. Of course, that will dilute the talent of their teams, which we've seen before.

18 posted on 08/27/2020 9:58:19 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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The left wing idiots at CBS Sports want everything shut down - NBA - College Football - NFL - isn’t that where they make their living? Dennis Dodd on CBS Sports was cheering when the Big 10 & Pac 10 shut down fall sports - Why?


19 posted on 08/27/2020 9:59:14 AM PDT by EC Washington
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I saw where athletics were headed when I taught at a major university many years ago. Some of the players in my classes failed each semester. After I submitted the grades, who knows what happened. They played.


20 posted on 08/27/2020 10:00:15 AM PDT by Maudeen (Get Ready! (https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/Matt.24))
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