OT: Money and Sports

[jnachod]

It looks like it's not just Cornell that's trying to make a quick buck off of sports (with the Internet broadcasts).

CNNSI.com is reporting today that HIGH SCHOOL basketball games in Ohio are going to be broadcast on cable tv Pay-per-view because of star Lebron James.  I don't care how good he is, this is just mortifying:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/news/2002/11/08/james_payperview_ap/

[CowbellGuy]

::wow::

[jtwcornell91]

Justin Nachod '04 wrote:

It looks like it's not just Cornell that's trying to make a quick buck off of sports (with the Internet broadcasts).

Except that Cornell's not even expecting to make a buck off of RealPass; they're just helping an outside company make a buck off of us rather than put in the effort to keep the webcasts free-to-listen.  Which of course only rankles more.  We're not paying the expenses; we're lining the pockets of RealNetworks.

[bigred apple]

If LeBron James were not playing, they probably wouldn't be showing those games on TV at all.  I don't have a problem with this.

[jkahn]

Yet, you can listen to NFL games for free on the internet, with links on NFL.com making it easy to do.

[jy3]

i dont have a problem with the high school charging money...as long as it is going back to the high school. but i have a question -- if mr james gets better text books does that make him inelligible for the ncaa ;-) ::nut::

[Jordan 04]

I don't think Mr. James is too concerned with what and will not make him ineligible for college ball....