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Commercialized Sports

Vidyadhar Date March 20, 2007

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#3 Posted by bbabu on March 28, 2007 12:33:17 pm
sports is the new opiate of the masses
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#2 Posted by teshah on March 21, 2007 7:17:31 pm
Date

A good and timely article indeed.

The commercial interests, the governments, especially, the undemocratic and in Pakistan even the Islamic Fundoos have joined hands to bolster cricket for obvious reasons, without giving any thought to the cost it is entailing to the third world poor nations like India and Pakistan. It is only the people who can assert themselves to put an end to this satanic game. But how?
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#1 Posted by jang on March 20, 2007 12:02:07 pm
Mr date, you have asserted, but not established the link between commercialization and poor quality of sports. cuba should be seen as an anamoly..in the us and most of the western world sports is highly commercial and practiced at a highly competative level.
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