Worry not! In another striking moment of sanity, U.S. Senator Tom Coburn (R-Muskogee) questioned the legitimacy of assigning nonprofit status to several tax-exempt, profit-making professional sports organizations, including the National Football League, National Hockey League and Professional Golf Association. The NFL? It raked in a cool $9.5 billion in 2012. Ho-hum. Like so many big […]
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Locked out and loaded
Jordan Eberle and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins stepped off the plane from Edmonton, Canada, in late September and quickly found their way to Bricktown. Thanks to the ongoing National Hockey League lockout, two of the world’s best young forwards will spend the foreseeable future playing for the Oklahoma City Barons. Most NHL players are locked out of […]