Washington Redskins Owner Dan Snyder Buys One Of World's Largest Yachts For $70 Million

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		Tech Entertainment Wall Street Markets Strategy Sports Lifestyle Politics Europe Video Latest October 05, 2011 Washington Redskins Owner Dan Snyder Buys One Of World's Largest Yachts For $70 Million Controversial owner picks up a 224-footer.  Read » Las Vegas Bookies Are Scared To Death That The Detroit Lions Will Win The Super Bowl Bettors have them at 75-1 odds.  Read » The Best Sports City In America Is... It's not New York.  Read » Here's Recently Unearthed Footage Of One Of The Most Ridiculous College Football Endings Ever Central vs. Linfield, 2000.  Read » An ESPN Reporter Got Naked And Interviewed Two Athletes For The Body Issue Turning the tables.  Read » The Mistress Who Keyed Tiger Woods' Downfall Married A Former College Football Player In Vegas This Weekend Rachel Uchitel: Penn State fan.  Read » Class Warfare? Albert Pujols Rips MLB For Always Putting The Yankees In Primetime "I just don't understand why we're playing at 4:00."  Read » Advertisement 10 Sports Betting Myths That You Should Immediately Forget Buck the conventional wisdom.  Read » Advertisement Related Topics Share this: Facebook Twitter Digg Reddit StumbleUpon LinkedIn The email address for your subscription is: dwyld.kwu.wyldside@blogger.com Manage Email Preference | Unsubscribe | Subscribe | Subscribe to Sports Page RSS Feed Business Insider. 257 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010 Terms of Service | Privacy Policy

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Today: October 5, 2011 I Thought We Were Getting a New iPhone The unexciting iPhone 4S could open the mobile market for Google and Microsoft. By Farhad Manjoo READ FULL STORY | More Technology "Now Is Not My Time" With Chris Christie's announcement, the Republicans continue their search for an alternative to Mitt Romney. By John Dickerson READ FULL STORY | More News and Politics The No-Dick Rule Why former Vice President Cheney should no longer be allowed on network TV. By Fred Kaplan READ FULL STORY | More News and Politics Dead Letter Office NFL 2011 Before Hitler, Who Was the Stand-In for Pure Evil? American Horror Story Advertisement The Question Amanda Knox Left Behind The Boring Beatle Why Nicholson Baker Does So Much Writing at Friendly's The Shirt From Hell News & Politics The Death Penalty Case That Has Even Scalia Griping About Incompetent Lawyers. Grandma's Benefits Imperil Junior's Future: Watch tonight's Slate/Intelligence Squared U.S. debate live. Technology This Is the New iPhone? Seriously? Farhad Manjoo Chats with Slate Readers about the iPhone 4S Business There Is Only One Way To End the Global Recession: Spend More Money. Lots of It. Americans Haven't Been This Depressed About the Economy for Ages and Ages Arts American Horror Story: Can Freaky Sex and Sadistic Violence Be Fun for the Whole Family? Edgar Guest, Marianne Moore, and the Place Where Pop Meets Modernism Life Can We Prevent Another Amanda Knox Case? Dear Prudence: My Friend Won't Tell Her One-Night Stand She Got Pregnant Health & Science How Do You Turn Off a Particle Accelerator? Just Pull the Plug? Does Evil Exist? Neuroscientists Say No. Sports The Red Sox's Spectacular Collapse Will Make Their Fans More Annoying, Not Less Double X Is My Mentor Hitting on Me? Do Women Still Fret About the Number of People They've Had Sex With? Podcasts Digital Manners: Is comment thread redundancy OK? Hang Up and Listen: Will the NHL Ban Fighting and Shots to the Head? Video Dear Prudence: I Married a Peeping Tom? A weekly Dear Prudence video. (VIDEO)

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Sports Nut No Basketball, No Problem Why a lost NBA season wouldn't be a disaster for local economies. By Neil deMause Posted Wednesday, Oct 05, 2011, at 04:30 PM ET After another fruitless round of talks between the players and owners, it looks like the start of the NBA season—if not the whole thing—will soon be wiped out. It's not only hoops fans who are anxious at the prospect of a lost season. By all accounts, cities with NBA franchises have also been cringing in terror. With the start of the season a month away, we've already seen predictions of a "devastating" impact on Charlotte, N.C., businesses, a $55 million loss to the city of Indianapolis, and certain disaster for sports bars in Portland, Ore. This kind of reporting is a staple of sports work stoppages, and it's easy to see why. Idle turnstiles and shuttered souvenir stands are obvious indicators of lost economic activity, and an easy visual symbol of the impact of the sports world's regular strikes and lockouts. The problem with these stories is that there's no evidence to support any of their claims. The lost city revenues, the devastation for local businesses—none of it ever happens. "There is no way the NBA lockout will have any significant economic consequences," says the University of Alberta's Brad Humphreys, an economist who has studied the effects of sports work stoppages. Humphreys' most in-depth investigation came in 2001, when he and Dennis Coates of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County set out to determine the effects of the lockout that wiped out the first half of the 1998-99 NBA season. Since ... To continue reading, click here. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forum What did you think of this article? POST A MESSAGE | READ MESSAGES Also In Slate Dead Letter Office NFL 2011 Before Hitler, Who Was the Stand-In for Pure Evil?	Advertisement
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