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[Seattle Times] 15 years after moving Sonics, now it’s the Thunder asking for publicly funded arena
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I will never understand why public funds should pay for >50% of the funds for a privately owned sports clubs arena
This is one of the biggest taxpayer rip-offs in the country. Under the guise of the limited jobs it creates. Study after study proves what a rip-off it is. New York taxpayers are about to foot 1 billion so the Bills can keep coming up short of expectations.
The bigger scam is publicly funded colleges getting massive stadiums for like 8 games per year.
The fact that my state school (Rutgers) gets ~140m a year, and can expect taxpayers and tuition to cover any loses they garner doing that, to cosplay a D1 football school is nuts. Half the school is Indian and asian and couldn't give less of a shit about football - give us like 1% of that budget for a funded cricket team and we'd demolish.
The issue would be finding other NCAA Schools to play cricket against
Sounds like a national championship to me!
It would be affirmative action for south asians just like squash and crew is affirmative action for WASPs.
... and lax and swimming...
Maybe they can start with Princeton.