The 15 Worst Owners in Sports

[bing101]

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/lists/the-15-worst-owners-in-sports-20141125


This includes David Glass of the Kansas City Royals


Jerry Jones of the Cowboys


Jeffrey Loria, Miami Marlins

and Daniel Snyder, Washington Redskins

[triplemultiplex]

Loved it.

Assholes like them are helping destroy the very sports they profit from, too.  But who cares about that because those old fogies will be long dead when that finally happens. 

[oscar]

Assholes like them are helping destroy the very sports they profit from, too.  But who cares about that because those old fogies will be long dead when that finally happens. 

Dan Snyder, who tops the list, is only 50.

[Thing 342]

Hmmm, this list seems to be based more on the mentioned owners' political leanings rather than on their actual management of their teams.

[english si]

And is entirely US centric.

In the US, there's little threat of your team going bust or near enough.

Vincent Tam rightly gets a lot of stick for sports reasons - changing the club's colours, nickname (though failing to change the actual name), publicly attacked his manager who was doing alright, followed by a load of in-season uncertainty about the managers future and eventually sacking him about 5 weeks too late. No decent manager who was avaliable wanted the job, and team morale was dead, and unsurprisingly they didn't do well, having made a decent start to the season.

But for real bad owners, look up Sulaiman Al Fahim and Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov, two former owners of Portsmouth who both nearly got the club liquidated. The former didn't pay players and the team were relegated four times, the latter being a generally awful guy.

[hbelkins]

Hmmm, this list seems to be based more on the mentioned owners' political leanings rather than on their actual management of their teams.

It's Rolling Stone, what do you expect? From the same magazine that tries to pass Matt Taibbi off as an intelligent political observer.

[Billy F 1988]

*sigh* It's called journalistic bias for a reason. Every publication has a bias towards the worst owners in sports. Did you expect anything less from Rolling Stone?

[Alps]

Hmmm, this list seems to be based more on the mentioned owners' political leanings rather than on their actual management of their teams.

Yeah, it's "15 of the people we dislike who are sports owners." Though a few of them are legit, and I think they had to throw those in for credibility.

[english si]

Did you expect anything less from Rolling Stone?

No.

But that doesn't mean I can't complain that picking only US owners whom they merely dislike is in anyway deserving of the title 'Worst Owners in Sports' - even the presence of the legit bad owners doesn't give the article credibility.

And attacking some because of racism, while ignoring the world outside their country is hypocrisy.

There's journalistic bias, sure, but this isn't journalism.

[Pete from Boston]

And attacking some because of racism, while ignoring the world outside their country is hypocrisy.

Actually, it's a failure to clarify a scope that's implicit to most of Rolling Stone's readers.  US people on the whole are not very interested in non-US sports, anecdotal evidence to the contrary notwithstanding.  This doesn't make us racists, nor hypocrites when we address racism. 

[english si]

This doesn't make us racists, nor hypocrites when we address racism.

Of course the US's attitude to sports isn't racist, but that doesn't mean it's not xenophobic.

I've spotted a thin modifier 'American', which covers their "America, fuck yeah" ignorance of the existence the rest of the world that they article would otherwise imply. (Also seen in 'The World Series')

If they were doing sports in general not 'American sports', but still wanted to appease the xenophobes who hate non-American sports from outside America, then they could have done FIFA and railed against Soccer as their run by an uber-corrupt organisation.

[Pete from Boston]

This doesn't make us racists, nor hypocrites when we address racism.

Of course the US's attitude to sports isn't racist, but that doesn't mean it's not xenophobic.

I've spotted a thin modifier 'American', which covers their "America, fuck yeah" ignorance of the existence the rest of the world that they article would otherwise imply. (Also seen in 'The World Series')

If they were doing sports in general not 'American sports', but still wanted to appease the xenophobes who hate non-American sports from outside America, then they could have done FIFA and railed against Soccer as their run by an uber-corrupt organisation.

Isn't there a publication in FIFA's territory better suited to that task?

Xenophobia is not our best quality, but neither one we have any kind of monopoly on.  Our excuse is distance; others' is often proximity.

[triplemultiplex]

"The 15 Worst Owners in American Sports"
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