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		<title>SHOULD SPORTS LEAGUE EXPANSION CONTINUE? &#8211; PART 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 13:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ ... joy and beauty to as many people as possible?  In North America, there is more demand for <b>sports</b> than supply.  Every major <b>sports</b> <b>league</b> should look into expanding, not only in the USA, but in other areas of North America.  There are cities in North  ... ]]></description>
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<p>Sports is the pleasing thing.  It teaches us how to grow both physically as well as mentally, provides us with excersize as well as gives us the place to cling to out with friends as well as be ourselves.  So because shouldn&#8217;t you widespread this happiness as well as beauty to as most people as possible?  In North America, there is some-more direct for sports than supply.  Every vital sports joining should demeanour in to expanding, not usually in the USA, though in alternative areas of North America.  There have been cities in North America which would be some-more than peaceful to have an additional vital sports team.  Cities such as Kansas City, Toronto, Los Angelas as well as Portland have been perplexing for years to take an additional pro sports team.  If leagues looked in to expanding in to these areas, it would reap mercantile as well as amicable rewards.  So,  if The N.H.L. wants to enhance to Las Vegas or the N.F.L. wants to demeanour in to carrying the group in Toronto, we contend GO FOR IT!</p>
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		<title>SHOULD SPORTS LEAGUE EXPANSION CONTINUE? &#8211; PART 2</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>My answer is, for the most part, no.  Professional <b>sports</b> <b>leagues</b> are already VERY watered down, and expansion would add more also rans to the plethora of mediocre teams.  There are only so many great athletes to go around, but there are notable  ... ]]></description>
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<p>My answer is, for a many part, no.  Professional sports leagues have been already VERY watered down, as great as enlargement would supplement some-more additionally rans to a engorgement of common teams.  There have been usually so many great athletes to go around, nonetheless there have been important exceptions in a integrate of sports which bear a little discussion.  However, these have been integrate of as great as distant between.  Let&#8217;s take a look&#8230;</p>
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<p>NHL.  Forget about it!  Hockey has already invaded a sunbelt, nonetheless surprisingly a little of a southern teams have finished unequivocally well, quite Carolina.  Overall, though, there is a miss of seductiveness in a competition right now, as great as unless Crosby (Penguins) or a single of a alternative taking flight immature stars spin out to be a subsequent Gretzky, a destiny is not great for a sport.  Should a brand new run of great immature bent have a splash&#8230;talk to me in 10 years.</p>
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<p>MLS.  Nobody cares.  Next!</p>
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<p>MLB.  It&#8217;s already a Yanks as great as Sox opposite a rest of a world.  we consider it would be a bad thought to supplement brand new teams as great as have a Devil Rays, Pirates, Rangers, et al. even worse than they already are.  There have been towns <span id="more-7"></span> which have been upon a verge of being means to await a ball franchise, as great as a U.S. race is removing larger, nonetheless a goods of a steroid epoch haven&#8217;t entirely strike home yet.  I&#8217;ll put a MLB in a land pattern-NO for now.</p>
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<p>NBA.  No.  Do we recollect a &#8220;showtime&#8221; Lakers, a late&#8217;60&#8242;s as great as early &#8217;70&#8242;s Lakers, Larry Bird as great as a squad in Boston, a &#8217;70&#8242;s Knicks, etc?  There was a time when a championship group had 5 great players as great as a integrate great ones entrance off a bench.  People have been already articulate about subsequent year&#8217;s Celtics creation a run.  Why?  Like all alternative pro sports, a NBA is skinny upon talent.  Two stars as great as a handful of purpose players will have a group a contender.  The Miami Heat is a box in point.  However, we will have a single of my dual exceptions for a NBA.  we do consider a pro basketball group would flower in Las Vegas.  The star energy would have for a helluva celebration upon a frame 41 times a year.</p>
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<p>NFL.  Maybe.  The NFL is a many renouned of a vital pro sports, as great as if any joining could have enlargement work, it is a National Football League.  we do not consider they should go overboard, BUT a authorization in LA is prolonged overdue.  Forget about Jim Rome observant which a SoCals do not care!  This is a nations second largest market.  Get them a group already!</p>
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<p>I will have an additional point.  Narurally, we have no complaint with a Canadian hockey teams, or a Raptors or Blue Jays for which matter.  However, enlargement outward of North America is a bad idea.  Forget about a costs.  These have been OUR leagues, and, for a many part, the games.  we would similar to to keep it which way.  Vegas hoops-yes.  LA football-yes.  Everything else-no.</p>
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		<title>SHOULD SPORTS LEAGUE EXPANSION CONTINUE? &#8211; PART 1</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ ...  things.  I am a <b>sports</b> fan, and I enjoy watching events, but I still spend money very carefully when it comes to <b>sports</b> <b>leagues</b>.  It is just too expensive to partake in on a regular basis.  Therefore, I think it is important for fewer cities to have ... ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At their core, sports leagues have been businesses, as well as businesses wish to enhance as well as have some-more money.  They still have investors as well as those people wish to have the profit.  This is since leagues expand, since they wish to bend out in to the single some-more markets as well as enlarge the income for particular owners as well as the joining overall.  It is formidable to disagree opposite commercial operation expansion, quite in the United States were particular distinction seems to the series the single worth of the country.  However, there have been still reasons since sports joining enlargement should not continue.  Some of them have been philosophical, whilst others have been commercial operation related.  Here have been the couple of thoughts upon the issue.     </p>
<p>ENTERTAINMENT CRAZE</p>
<p>We do not need some-more party options in the society.  Not each city needs the baseball, basketball, football, as well as hockey team.  In many ways, the multitude is drowning in excess, as well as you outlay approach as well many income upon things which have been not indeed critical in the grand intrigue of things.  you am the sports fan, as well as you suffer examination events, though you still outlay income really delicately when it comes to sports leagues.  It is only as well <span id="more-6"></span> costly to extract in upon the unchanging basis.  Therefore, you consider it is critical for fewer cities to have which mercantile temptation.    </p>
<p>DILUTION  </p>
<p>There is additionally the commercial operation reason to shorten expansion.  Increasingly the salaries of veteran sports have spiraled out of carry out since owners have been as well diseased to stop the bleeding.  This has combined situations where the little teams cannot means to contest as well as thus do not put the great product upon the field.  This dilutes the foe as well as creates the competition reduction interesting.  When the competition does not crop up to encounter the standards of professionalism, afterwards fans will proceed to remove interest.</p>
<p>Overall, you consider there have been mercantile as well as amicable reasons to keep many sports leagues during their stream size.  There is not the clamoring for brand new teams in today&#8217;s society, nor do you need some-more places to rubbish the money.  If leagues wish to sojourn competitive, they cannot enhance as well distant as well as widespread out their talent.  After all, some-more businesses do not indispensably meant some-more money.</p>
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		<title>SHOULD SPORTS LEAGUE EXPANSION CONTINUE? &#8211; PART 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>The NFL is the one <b>league</b> that can not possibly have too many teams. First, the schedule is not as tight as other <b>leagues</b>. There are only 16 games. Right now, theoretically, every team in the AFC could play every team in the NFC every week. ... ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Take a outing behind to a 1990s with me if we will. In all 4 vital veteran sports, we saw enlargement everywhere. The NHL was a misfortune by far, adding 7 teams, often in places where they didn&#8217;t belong. MLB did a decent job, with a difference of Tampa Bay as good as Miami (the Florida Marlins), no a single unequivocally winced during a NFL as good as a NBA satisfied which a single marketplace of dual to which they stretched wasn&#8217;t a good fit.</p>
<p>Look during a 4 leagues now. Each joining has thirty teams or more. For some, it&#8217;s been OK. For others, it was complete disaster. Take a demeanour during MLB. Four enlargement teams &#8211; Florida, Colorado, Tampa Bay as good as Arizona. Two of those teams have won World Championships (the Marlins did it twice), as good as a alternative dual haven&#8217;t seen most &#8211; if any playoff time.</p>
<p>Despite dual universe championships &#8211; MLB deliberate removing absolved of a Marlins (and a Twins, notwithstanding their dual World Series titles as well). MLB seemed to rethink a preference to enhance to South Florida. The destiny of a Marlins is still in a air.</p>
<p>How about a NHL? Recent discussions right away revolve around a NHL expanding to Kansas City (if <span id="more-11"></span> an existent group doesn&#8217;t pierce there first) as good as Las Vegas. As distant as a NHL is endangered &#8211; a NHL can hardly keep a conduct upon top of H2O with thirty teams; as a result a money-losing lockout of 2004-05 which cancelled a season. </p>
<p>To a NHL&#8217;s credit, dual of a &#8220;recent&#8221; enlargement teams have won a Stanley Cup, a Ducks as good as a Lightning. And, gripping with this &#8220;southern exposure&#8221; thing which has been a hallmark of Commish Bettman&#8217;s reign, a Carolina Hurricanes &#8211; relocated from Hartford, won a Lord Stanley in-between.</p>
<p>But prior to a NHL considers dual some-more teams &#8211; keep your conduct upon top of H2O for during slightest 5 uninterrupted seasons first?</p>
<p>Ditto for a NBA. The NBA has had a monetary troubles as well. The NBA can&#8217;t hoop an additional team. Thirty is enough.</p>
<p>The NFL is a a single joining which can not presumably have as well most teams. First, a report is not as parsimonious as alternative leagues. There have been usually sixteen games. Right now, theoretically, each group in a AFC could fool around each group in a NFC each week. Of course, it doesn&#8217;t work which way. Someone needs to have a bye week. So, if some-more teams were added, which only creates for some-more teams carrying a bye upon a sold week.</p>
<p>With a NFL&#8217;s extraordinary TV deals as good as income pity as good as all a alternative things which creates a commercial operation of a NFL great, enlargement does not appear to be a problem. Other leagues should demeanour during a approach a NFL does business. Small-market teams have so most difficulty in a alternative 3 majors. But, a NFL can keep teams in markets similar to Green Bay as good as Jacksonville.</p>
<p>Can we suppose an NBA group in Green Bay? No. It wouldn&#8217;t survive. Green Bay folks adore their football; they could give a drifting jump about basketball. Or, how about Nashville? The NHL pronounced which what unequivocally killed a NHL in Nashville was a attainment of&#8230;you guessed it, a NFL. When a Houston Oilers changed to Nashville, which signaled a spike in a coffin for a NHL in Nashville.</p>
<p>Which is because a Predators wish out of Nashville so badly. They can&#8217;t live underneath a powerful of an NFL group in a same city.</p>
<p>To hang it up in a simplest terms, enlargement should not occur unless a 4 majors can be positively sure they can tarry 10 years after they get there.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[ ...  for Major <b>League</b> Baseball (MLB), National Hockey <b>League</b> (NHL) and National Basketball Association (NBA).</p>

<p>I presume that the "<b>sports</b> <b>league</b>" mentioned here is "major <b>league</b>" <b>sports</b> like MLB, NHL, NBA and NFL (National Football <b>League</b>). Well,  ... ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sports joining enlargement should really continue, generally for Major League Baseball (MLB), National Hockey League (NHL) as good as National Basketball Association (NBA).</p>
<p>I creed which a &#8220;sports league&#8221; referred to here is &#8220;major league&#8221; sports similar to MLB, NHL, NBA as good as NFL (National Football League). Well, all teams of a leagues referred to on top of have been often located in a largest as good as many heavily populated cities or civil areas. However, there have been still cities as good as civil areas in North America which still opens up equal, if not better, opportunities than a tiny of a stream franchises in a leagues.</p>
<p>For example, Portland, OR has a incomparable radio marketplace as good as a incomparable assembly distance than Milwaukee, WI, nonetheless it does not have a MLB team. Milwaukee Brewers have been you do good in MLB, with a comparatively brand brand new track which regularly seats some-more than 30,000 people. Birmingham, AL has a civil race of some-more than a single million people as good as it does not have a vital joining team. In contrast, New Orleans, LA as good as Buffalo, NY, with rounded off a same civil race as Birmingham, have 2 vital joining teams! With even a tiny vast cities with comparatively vast populations of some-more than a single million similar to New Orleans, it is bizarre as good as obscure to <span id="more-87"></span> see which they still do not have a vital joining sports team. You need not even need to discuss a direct as good as zeal of some-more regions which have a not as big civil population! </p>
<p>Besides, even in cities where there have been during slightest a single veteran sports team, similar to Portland or San Antonio, they have been still incomparable than a lot of cities where there have been two, or even 3 vital joining sports teams, similar to Milwaukee (with their &#8216;beloved&#8217; Packers located in a same state)! </p>
<p>It has been argued which there is little, if any, room for enlargement of vital joining sports in United States. However, we do not determine with this statement. </p>
<p>Major joining sports teams&#8217; owners keep office building as good as progressing state-of-the-art sports drift as good as arenas, withdrawal couple of (if any) cities currently with arenas so aged as good as audiences so tiny which they contingency pierce to elsewhere. With many of a brand brand new arenas&#8217; income saved by metropolitan governments, because should they give up progressing a locus or track they saved when they had not entirely recovered their investments (after interest)? No supervision would similar to to be saddled with a outrageous debt even after a sports ground&#8217;s implosion, similar to Seattle&#8217;s Kingdome, where Seattle still pays a Kingdome&#8217;s bills even after implosion!</p>
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