{"id":1826,"date":"2011-11-20T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2011\/sports-in-the-united-states-and-europe\/"},"modified":"2011-11-20T09:13:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T14:13:31","slug":"sports-in-the-united-states-and-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2011\/sports-in-the-united-states-and-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports in the United States and Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/112011_1412_Sportsinthe1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rupert Cornwell at <em>The Independent <\/em>recently took a look at the different ways that the United States and Europe handle their sporting systems. Some of the highlights from the article include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>America and Europe&#8217;s management of sports run contrary to national stereotype. Capitalist America has a franchise system that that encourages cartel and depresses the law of the free market by instituting things like caps on player salaries. Welfare Socialist Europe has a free market system that allows tycoons to bid obscene amounts for players.<\/li>\n<li>The reason for this paradox is the dual role of sports. In the United States the emphasis is on sports&#8217; ability to make money for its owners. In Europe the emphasis is on sports&#8217; ability to provide entertainment.<\/li>\n<li>The US system of regulations has done a better job of ensuring that no one team dominates in a sport.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To see a table that clearly lists out the pros and cons of both systems, as well as to see some of the hard numbers involved click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/football\/news-and-comment\/the-us-franchise-systemcoming-to-a-league-near-you-2374155.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/football\/news-and-comment\/the-us-franchise-systemcoming-to-a-league-near-you-2374155.html\"><em>The independent<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: Ariff Kamarudin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rupert Cornwell at The Independent recently took a look at the different ways that the United States and Europe handle their sporting systems. Some of the highlights from the article include: America and Europe&#8217;s management of sports run contrary to national stereotype. Capitalist America has a franchise system that that encourages cartel and depresses the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1827,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions\/1827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}