Category Archives: Uncategorized

As discussed in Fair Pay–Fair Play: Getting the Pro-Team Sports We Want at Prices We Can Afford, free-market competition forces businesses to put us first.Laura Dressman, spokeswoman for Procter & Gamble’s Family Care division, explained why the company makes so many roll sizes of Charmin Ultra Soft toilet paper— Big, Large, Double, Family, Giant, Jumbo,Continue reading “Sports Streaming: More $$ for Them, Higher Costs and More Frustration for Us”

This website domain ends in .org which is typically associated with nonprofit organizations. While the website owner is not a nonprofit, the site was created to build community in support of the reforms outlined in Fair Pay, Fair Play: Getting the Pro-Team Sports We Want at Prices We Can Afford. The site is supported byContinue reading “Disclaimer”

Last Updated May 24, 2022 These Terms of Use apply with respect to your access and/or use of this website (Site). The following is important information regarding this Site, our copyright to its contents and the terms for your use of the Site as a visitor or commenter. These Terms of Use govern your useContinue reading “Terms of Use”

Last Updated May 22, 2024 This page outlines how we collect and use your data. Data Collection and Usage When you volunteer to post a comment or reply to a comment, you volunteer your email and zip code. Providing your email allows us to communicate with you in manners you specify (e.g., notifications when othersContinue reading “Privacy Policy”

Comments are welcome and encouraged. The goal of commenting should be for a thoughtful, open and lively exchange of ideas and information. Some content and comments may generate heated discussions, but we expect — and require — that the tone of the commentary be civil and respectful. Your comments will be screened and edited forContinue reading “Commenting Guidelines”

The book Fair Pay, Fair Play: Getting the Pro Team Sports We Want at Prices We Can Afford focuses on a few of the abuses of the pro-team sports monopolists. There are many others in pro-team sports like high online ticket purchase fees and cable TV blackouts. (In some larger communities, the cable TV marketContinue reading “Other Issues”

From Fair Pay, Fair Play pages 75 and 121-123. In Fair Pay, Fair Play: Getting the Pro-Team Sports We Want at Prices We Can Afford, the pro-teams sports and leagues are described as monopolies (monopoly My Teams operating within a cartel league). This is how our government describes monopoly (and monopoly power). The Department ofContinue reading “They Are a Monopoly (The Team Is My Team)”

From Fair Pay, Fair Play pages 125-131 Our society’s preferred option to assure businesses serve us with the right product at the right price is free market competition. When that option isn’t available, we have to look at the other options–to regulate or to own and operate. In the 1990s, the federal government regulated cableContinue reading “The Regulation Option—College”

From Fair Pay, Fair Play pages 52-75. The book, Fair Pay, Fair Play: Getting the Pro-Team Sports We Want at Prices We Can Afford, discusses pro-team sports player and owner free agency; how the lack of accountability for team results allows them to do what’s right for them even if it may be wrong forContinue reading “College “Free Agency””