Word: sporting
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...current job is somewhat complicated by the unfortunate financial constraints that define who wins and loses in professional sport. The Oakland franchise lies on the smaller end of baseball's salary scale. With an estimated 2000 payroll of $32 million, the A's rank 25th on the list of Major League Baseball's highest spenders. When compared with the robust $93 million George Steinbrenner and the Yankees will attempt to buy another World Series championship with this year, one might expect little to come of the management's efforts...
...good a player as we've ever had here," Walsh recalls. "As shortstop and captain, he had a way of actually making his teammates better. That's a very hard thing to do in our sport; it's easier to think about something like that happening in basketball or hockey. But if you were on Dave's side, you knew that he expected a certain amount of you, that he wouldn't accept anything less...
What distinguishes this T-shirt moment from other high points in the evolution of the fashion staple is that tees need no longer be relegated to weekends, sport a logo or come in a packet of three. The latest versions are well tailored (often blended with Lycra), range in color from pastel pink to peacock blue, and boast sleeves and necklines the people at Hanes have probably never even considered. And needless to say, they don't cost $3.95. Women are buying them in bulk, for $25 to $60 apiece, to wear for work by day and more formal occasions...
...requiring entertainment. It has lots of fighting, but with a posh accent; this may be the first culturally acceptable version of WrestleMania. Beyond the spectacle of large men grabbing and stabbing one another, Gladiator offers body halvings, decapitations, unhandings. A pity the slaves must die for the public's sport, and a pleasure that we get to watch. Violence is an issue directors love to deplore and exploit...
...many as 200 channels. The BBC, which always has to juggle the need for ratings with its public-service role, has found it hugely expensive to launch digital channels, start Internet sites and cope with the spiraling costs of technology, talent and rights to broadcast such things as sporting events. Although sport is one of Dyke's priorities, he has already ruled out paying the vast sums being demanded to broadcast England's top Premier League football games live--the price is expected to be more than double the $1.18 billion broadcasters paid in 1996. "We cannot just collect money...