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The Business of Sports is Business

Evan Weiner of the New York Sun lays it all out from a historical perspective: the history of sports as business culminating in the naming of the Nets' new home the Barclays Center. Noting the arena will be built on the same site the Brooklyn Dodgers wanted to build their new home--before abandoning the idea and moving to LA, Weiner calls the property a symbol of sports as business.