THE UGLY SIDE OF SPORTS

The Ugly Side of Sports

Mr. Portnoy has mentioned that he placed bets with a Little League coach who occurred to be a bookie. At the University of Michigan, Mr. Portnoy started a web-site known as thegamblingman.com to publish his picks. This fall, Mr. Portnoy is touring college campuses, broadcasting his bets in front of cheering students. In Nevada, the state’s Gaming

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Sports - Dead or Alive?

Arena Group employees received an e mail from HR earlier this month informing them that “holiday pleased hours” had been canceled. “We will host a party immediately after our organization achieves break-even/profitability,” the e mail mentioned. Last week, the corporation fired operations president and COO Andrew Kraft, media president Rob

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Giving Sports As Gifts

It brightened some people's winter, but outraged others. The problem went "from moral outrage to hallowed tradition in only one particular generation," Deford wrote in his 1989 retrospective on the swimsuit problem, "How It All Began." The magazine was positioned as a "class" magazine, considerably like the New Yorker, with sophisticated, intellige

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The Do's and Do nots Of Sports

According to a report from Fox Sports college football analyst Brock Huard, Washington State quarterback Cam Ward has 10 $1 million gives from D1 schools that want him to transfer and play for them. Several outsiders could confuse American football with rugby. Though they are related, they are two fully distinctive sports with different rules of pl

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