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Sport Is Business – No, It’s Entertainment. Yet Do The Same Rules Apply?

Sometimes the world of sport can be confusing. To the majority sport is a pastime, an activity that they carry out on a regular basis for enjoyment, and not for money. To others sport is a business, where the chosen

RIP Marvelous Marvin Hagler

I remember watching Marvin Hagler’s second attempt to win a World Title against Britain’s Alan Minter at Wembley Arena in 1980. This was a good era for British boxing and fights were regularly televised. Minter, Tony Sibson, Jim Watt, Herol

A Management Criterium?

When the outgoing President of the United States first uttered the words “Fake News” everyone chuckled. Then the more he used the expression the more it became a part of our every day speech. What is a concern is how

The Four Year Cycle, Is It Holding Sports Back?

Everyone knows that today sport is big business. The money tied up in sport is phenomenal, some would say obscene when you look at areas in our everyday lives that are desperate for money, education and health being two. To

The Value of Loyalty

There used to be a saying that when you chose a team, you chose that team for life. It would appear that the phrase today has become outdated. It is a fact that today the youth follow individual players rather