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You Want Fair? That’s Not How Pro Sports Works
Fans don’t just want their teams to win anymore — they want the sport itself to be flawless: perfect coaching, perfect officiating, perfect behavior, perfect “fairness,” perfect outcomes. In this episode of On The Ball, Ric Bucher explains why that expectation is a fantasy… and why technology, replay, and analytics have actually expanded the outrage economy instead of eliminating “human error.”
Ric also takes a hard look at the growing “eliminate the NBA Draft to stop tanking” conversation — including Rich Paul’s idea of treating incoming players like free agents — and lays out why it sounds…
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