2008-02-12

Vanity Sports Have Arrived

Interesting article at Endless Cycling considering the fall of the working class cyclist. Like soccer, sports fanatic businessmen are gobbling up their favorite teams to own. Some take it a step further and actually want to participate.

Just like we're seeing the collision between celebrity stars actively entering the realm of politics are we witnessing nouveau-mill-billionaires crossing into sports culture? The new breed of player-owner? How long before one of those soccer owners decides he is good enough to play on a pro, for example, soccer team?

They call it Vanity Press in the publishing profession. What shall we call owners who want to be athletes? Vanity Sports?

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