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Crazy Sports Salaries Prove Supply and Demand Works

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 1, 2009 9:02 AM CDT

(Newser) – Sports fans love to grouse about athletes' salaries and bemoan the ever-rising prices of tickets, concessions, and merchandise. But “it isn’t some vague indefinable ‘they’ who pays the players,” writes Allen Barra for the Wall Street Journal. “It’s you,... Read full story »

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