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* The Lola team attempted to enter UsefulNotes/FormulaOne with sponsorship from [=MasterCard=]. They expected to get their cars ready for the 1998 season, and so work had to begin in 1996. There is, however, one major problem: [=MasterCard=] wants them to debut in 1997. This resulted in Lola having to rush the cars so that it's ready for the 1997 season and it shows. The largely untested, ineffective Lola T97/30 had no hope of reaching the 107% qualifying cutoff. The constructor folded right after their first entry (and it contributed to Lola's eventual bankruptcy many years later) while [=MasterCard=] [[KarmaHoudini got off the fiasco scot-free]].
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* The Lola team attempted to enter UsefulNotes/FormulaOne with sponsorship from [=MasterCard=]. They expected to get their cars ready for the 1998 season, and so work had to begin in 1996. There is, however, one major problem: [=MasterCard=] wants them to debut in 1997.1997 so that Lola can beat Stewart Grand Prix[[note]]Owned by three-time champion Jackie Stewart and is the team that, through two ownership changes, would become the present-day juggernauts Red Bull Racing[[/note]], who is scheduled to made their debut that year. This resulted in Lola having to rush the cars so that it's ready for the 1997 season and it shows. The largely untested, ineffective Lola T97/30 had no hope of reaching the 107% qualifying cutoff. The constructor folded right after their first entry (and it contributed to Lola's eventual bankruptcy many years later) while [=MasterCard=] [[KarmaHoudini got off the fiasco scot-free]].
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* The College Football Playoff (and the BCS before it) tends to favor SEC teams (particularly the likes of Alabama, Georgia and Florida and to a lesser extent, LSU and Auburn) over teams from other Power Five conferences with the belief that the SEC draws more money and ratings over other conferences.
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* The College Football Playoff (and the BCS before it) tends to favor SEC teams (particularly the likes of Alabama, Georgia and Florida and to a lesser extent, LSU and Auburn) over teams from other Power Five conferences with the belief that the SEC draws more money and ratings over other conferences.conferences.
* The Lola team attempted to enter UsefulNotes/FormulaOne with sponsorship from [=MasterCard=]. They expected to get their cars ready for the 1998 season, and so work had to begin in 1996. There is, however, one major problem: [=MasterCard=] wants them to debut in 1997. This resulted in Lola having to rush the cars so that it's ready for the 1997 season and it shows. The largely untested, ineffective Lola T97/30 had no hope of reaching the 107% qualifying cutoff. The constructor folded right after their first entry (and it contributed to Lola's eventual bankruptcy many years later) while [=MasterCard=] [[KarmaHoudini got off the fiasco scot-free]].
* The Lola team attempted to enter UsefulNotes/FormulaOne with sponsorship from [=MasterCard=]. They expected to get their cars ready for the 1998 season, and so work had to begin in 1996. There is, however, one major problem: [=MasterCard=] wants them to debut in 1997. This resulted in Lola having to rush the cars so that it's ready for the 1997 season and it shows. The largely untested, ineffective Lola T97/30 had no hope of reaching the 107% qualifying cutoff. The constructor folded right after their first entry (and it contributed to Lola's eventual bankruptcy many years later) while [=MasterCard=] [[KarmaHoudini got off the fiasco scot-free]].
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** Roman Abramovich, the Russian oligarch owner[[note]]now former owner, after his British-based assets were seized by the UK in compliance with sanctions levied against roughly 150 Russian oligarchs in response to the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine by the Russian military. The club is now owned by Los Angeles Dodgers owner Todd Boehly.[[/note]] of Chelsea FC, is likewise infamous for this, firing even successful managers if he dislikes the way they play or if they fail to win the trophies that he wants. The only manager who lasted more than two years under his stewardship was José "The Special One" Mourinho, who seemed to broadly enjoy Abramovich's favor.[[note]]Mourinho was fired in December 2015, but reports are that this was more to him having lost respect from the players themselves rather than a falling out with ownership.[[/note]]
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** Roman Abramovich, the Russian oligarch owner[[note]]now former owner, after his British-based assets were seized by the UK in compliance with sanctions levied against roughly 150 Russian oligarchs in response to the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine by the Russian military. The club is now owned by Los Angeles Dodgers owner Todd Boehly.[[/note]] of Chelsea FC, is likewise infamous for this, firing even successful managers if he dislikes the way they play or if they fail to win the trophies that he wants. The only manager who lasted more than two years under his stewardship was José "The Special One" Mourinho, who seemed to broadly enjoy Abramovich's favor.[[note]]Mourinho was fired in December 2015, but reports are that this was more to him having lost respect from the players themselves rather than a falling out with ownership.[[/note]][[/note]] Following the breakout of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2022, Abramovich was forced to sell, and American Todd Boehly took over, and his tenure thus far has seen even higher turnover in even shorter intervals than Abramovich's time, going through ''five'' coaches in two and a half seasons[[note]]Thomas Tuchel was manager when he first came in and lasted until the start of the next season. He was fired and replaced with Graham Potter after a poor run of form, who was sacked and replaced with Frank Lampard after bad form, with Bruno Saitor taking over in between for a short four days, and now they are currently on Mauricio Pochettino.[[/note]], in addition to knee-jerk massive spending[[note]]They famously spent a full ''BILLION'' pounds on players in the span of only two summer windows and a winter window in between[[/note]] to try and kick-start the team's old success only for the signings to underwhelm and fail to live up, creating a negative feedback loop that sees Chelsea flounder in midtable despite the extraordinarily high spending.
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* When England took on South Africa for a semifinal in the 1992 UsefulNotes/CricketWorldCup, the match had frequent rain interruptions during South Africa’s run chase. This caused the duration of the match to slip beyond the 9 PM time limit. This caused Australian TV executives to involve themselves in the match, as the live telecast was eating into prime time programming. Rather than pull a Heidi Bowl and abruptly end the telecast of the match, the executives forced the match officials to somehow end the match early. This resulted in the South Africans’ run target being adjusted from a gettable 13 runs in 8 balls to a difficult but achievable 22 runs in 8 balls to the outrageous 22 runs in 1 ball. After this debacle, the International Cricket Council arm twisted all broadcasters authorized to telecast cricket matches, to '''never''' prematurely end a live telecast of a match no matter the delay, and most importantly to never influence the ending of a match ever again.
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* When England took on South Africa for a semifinal in the 1992 UsefulNotes/CricketWorldCup, the match had frequent rain interruptions during South Africa’s run chase. This caused the duration of the match to slip beyond the 9 PM time limit. This caused Australian TV executives to involve themselves in the match, as the live telecast was eating into prime time programming. Rather than pull a Heidi Bowl and abruptly end the telecast of the match, the executives forced the match officials to somehow end the match early. This resulted in the South Africans’ run target being adjusted from a gettable 13 runs in 8 balls to a difficult but achievable 22 runs in 8 balls to the outrageous 22 runs in 1 ball. After this debacle, the International Cricket Council arm twisted all broadcasters authorized to telecast cricket matches, to '''never''' prematurely end a live telecast of a match no matter the delay, and most importantly to never influence the ending of a match ever again.again.
* The College Football Playoff (and the BCS before it) tends to favor SEC teams (particularly the likes of Alabama, Georgia and Florida and to a lesser extent, LSU and Auburn) over teams from other Power Five conferences with the belief that the SEC draws more money and ratings over other conferences.
* The College Football Playoff (and the BCS before it) tends to favor SEC teams (particularly the likes of Alabama, Georgia and Florida and to a lesser extent, LSU and Auburn) over teams from other Power Five conferences with the belief that the SEC draws more money and ratings over other conferences.
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* On October 1, 1961, in the fourth inning of the last game of the season, New York Yankee right fielder Roger Maris hit his 61st home run of the season, breaking Babe Ruth's single-season home run record. The problem was that Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick declared that, because eight games had been added to the baseball season between Ruth setting his record and Maris breaking it, the record would indicate that it took longer for Maris to break it. In addition, Ruth's record would be retained in the books. Frick's reason for doing this was simple: he'd been one of Ruth's best friends, and didn't think an "arrogant little nobody" like Maris was worthy of breaking such a "great man's" record. What makes this worse is that, at least at the time, all baseball records were "officially" kept not by the MLB, AL, or NL offices but by third party publications like ''Baseball Encyclopedia'' and ''The Sporting News'', which Frick had no official authority over. Even worse: Maris was finally recognized by MLB as the sole holder of the single season home run record in 1991. Unfortunately, Maris wasn't around to see it as he had died in 1985.[[note]]This story does have a happy ending of sorts, though. Maris' record was of course broken by 3 different players (Mark [=McGuire=] broke it in 1998 and finished that season with 70, Barry Bonds set the current record of 73 in 2001, Sammy Sosa only briefly held the record at various points in 1998 and isn't considered an "official" past record holder, but he did hit more than 61 home runs in a season 3 times), however with it being known that all 3 of those players were using steroids, and with enough time passing that the "61*" controversy has largely been forgotten, Maris is considered the true record holder by many hardcore baseball fans.[[/note]]
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* On October 1, 1961, in the fourth inning of the last game of the season, New York Yankee right fielder Roger Maris hit his 61st home run of the season, breaking Babe Ruth's single-season home run record. The problem was that Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick declared that, because eight games had been added to the baseball season between Ruth setting his record and Maris breaking it, the record would indicate that it took longer for Maris to break it. In addition, Ruth's record would be retained in the books. Frick's reason for doing this was simple: he'd been one of Ruth's best friends, and didn't think an "arrogant little nobody" like Maris was worthy of breaking such a "great man's" record. What makes this worse is that, at least at the time, all baseball records were "officially" kept not by the MLB, AL, or NL offices but by third party publications like ''Baseball Encyclopedia'' and ''The Sporting News'', which Frick had no official authority over. Even worse: Maris was finally recognized by MLB as the sole holder of the single season home run record in 1991. Unfortunately, Maris wasn't around to see it as he had died in 1985.[[note]]This story does have a happy ending of sorts, though. Maris' record was of course broken by 3 different players (Mark [=McGuire=] broke it in 1998 and finished that season with 70, Barry Bonds set the current record of 73 in 2001, Sammy Sosa only briefly held the record at various points in 1998 and isn't considered an "official" past record holder, but he did hit more than 61 home runs in a season 3 times), however with it being known that all 3 of those players were using steroids, and with enough time passing that the "61*" controversy has largely been forgotten, Maris is was considered the true record holder by many hardcore baseball fans.fans until 2022 (well after the steroid era), when Aaron Judge hit 62.[[/note]]
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* [[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague NHL]] commissioner Gary Bettman is booed in every single arena he walks into. [[MemeticMutation EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.]] During his tenure, he has brought about ''three'' lockouts, one cancelling the entire season and the others cancelling half, and has continuously defended franchises like the Florida Panthers and the Arizona Coyotes, whose home arenas are eternally empty to the point where the Coyotes were eventually forced to accept a move into the 5,000 seat Mullett Arena in Arizona State University just to survive for the early 2020's, when numerous cities in Canada, and to a lesser extent the Northern U.S. (and even a couple further down in the south), could easily support a hockey team and are really desperate for an NHL franchise (Quebec City is the glaring example for a potential Nordiques revival, but Hamilton, Saskatoon, Houston, Kansas City, and even Seattle before the Kraken arrived are also open markets). This becomes even more puzzling when, after his numerous other cash grabs, he never seemed to notice how moving another such team from Atlanta to hockey-hungry Winnipeg resulted in the franchise receiving a ''massive'' revenue increase. Said move also brought about criticism of the administration when Winnipeg were kept in the Southeast Division for two years, with many blaming the Jets missing the playoffs-especially in their first year-on the tiring travel schedule brought about by this. And then when the NHL next expanded, it placed a team in ''Las Vegas'', snubbing Quebec City for that point in time.[[note]]Though this last item is at least defensible in a business sense. The NHL requires that all player salaries be expressed and paid in U.S. dollars. While this means payrolls won't fluctuate with exchange rates, it leaves Canadian teams very vulnerable to said changes, since they collect essentially all of their revenue in Canadian dollars. When the loonie is at or near par with the U.S. dollar, as it was in the early 2010s, it's very good for the Canadian teams' bottom lines. When the loonie loses value against its U.S. counterpart... not so much. When the NHL put Quebec City's latest attempt to rejoin the league on hold, the loonie was trading at about 75 US cents.[[/note]]
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* [[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague NHL]] commissioner Gary Bettman is booed in every single arena he walks into. [[MemeticMutation EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.]] During his tenure, he has brought about ''three'' lockouts, one cancelling the entire season and the others cancelling half, and has continuously defended franchises like the Florida Panthers and the Arizona Coyotes, whose home arenas are eternally empty to the point where the Coyotes were eventually forced to accept a move into the 5,000 seat Mullett Arena in Arizona State University just to survive for the early 2020's, when numerous cities in Canada, and to a lesser extent the Northern U.S. (and even a couple further down in the south), could easily support a hockey team and are really desperate for an NHL franchise (Quebec City is the glaring example for a potential Nordiques revival, but Hamilton, Saskatoon, Houston, Kansas City, and even Seattle before the Kraken arrived are also open markets). This becomes even more puzzling when, after his numerous other cash grabs, he never seemed to notice how moving another such team from Atlanta to hockey-hungry Winnipeg resulted in the franchise receiving a ''massive'' revenue increase. Said move also brought about criticism of the administration when Winnipeg were kept in the Southeast Division for two years, with many blaming the Jets missing the playoffs-especially playoffs- especially in their first year-on year- on the tiring travel schedule brought about by this. And then when the NHL next expanded, it placed a team in ''Las Vegas'', snubbing Quebec City for that point in time.[[note]]Though this last item is at least defensible in a business sense. The NHL requires that all player salaries be expressed and paid in U.S. dollars. While this means payrolls won't fluctuate with exchange rates, it leaves Canadian teams very vulnerable to said changes, since they collect essentially all of their revenue in Canadian dollars. When the loonie is at or near par with the U.S. dollar, as it was in the early 2010s, it's very good for the Canadian teams' bottom lines. When the loonie loses value against its U.S. counterpart... not so much. When the NHL put Quebec City's latest attempt to rejoin the league on hold, the loonie was trading at about 75 US cents.[[/note]]
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* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Olympic_Men%27s_Basketball_Final 1972 Olympic Men's Basketball final]] infamously ended in controversy due to how the last three seconds of game were played three times. One of the causes of the controversy was the intervention of Renato William Jones, then-secretary general of FIBA, who overruled a decision by the referee (even though he had no authority to make rulings about a game in progress) and had the clock reset to three seconds.
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* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Olympic_Men%27s_Basketball_Final 1972 Olympic Men's Basketball final]] infamously ended in controversy due to how the last three seconds of game were played three times. One of the causes of the controversy was the intervention of Renato William Jones, then-secretary general of FIBA, who overruled a decision by the referee (even though he had no authority to make rulings about a game in progress) and had the clock reset to three seconds.seconds.
* When England took on South Africa for a semifinal in the 1992 UsefulNotes/CricketWorldCup, the match had frequent rain interruptions during South Africa’s run chase. This caused the duration of the match to slip beyond the 9 PM time limit. This caused Australian TV executives to involve themselves in the match, as the live telecast was eating into prime time programming. Rather than pull a Heidi Bowl and abruptly end the telecast of the match, the executives forced the match officials to somehow end the match early. This resulted in the South Africans’ run target being adjusted from a gettable 13 runs in 8 balls to a difficult but achievable 22 runs in 8 balls to the outrageous 22 runs in 1 ball. After this debacle, the International Cricket Council arm twisted all broadcasters authorized to telecast cricket matches, to '''never''' prematurely end a live telecast of a match no matter the delay, and most importantly to never influence the ending of a match ever again.
* When England took on South Africa for a semifinal in the 1992 UsefulNotes/CricketWorldCup, the match had frequent rain interruptions during South Africa’s run chase. This caused the duration of the match to slip beyond the 9 PM time limit. This caused Australian TV executives to involve themselves in the match, as the live telecast was eating into prime time programming. Rather than pull a Heidi Bowl and abruptly end the telecast of the match, the executives forced the match officials to somehow end the match early. This resulted in the South Africans’ run target being adjusted from a gettable 13 runs in 8 balls to a difficult but achievable 22 runs in 8 balls to the outrageous 22 runs in 1 ball. After this debacle, the International Cricket Council arm twisted all broadcasters authorized to telecast cricket matches, to '''never''' prematurely end a live telecast of a match no matter the delay, and most importantly to never influence the ending of a match ever again.
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* Ford Frick's appointment to the baseball commissioner's office was essentially a result of executive meddling by the club owners, who by 1950 made it clear they were running the game and the commissioner would be little more than a figurehead under their control. The owners were forced to appoint an authoritarian figure in 1920 in Kenesaw Mountain Landis to help clean up the game's image in the wake of the Black Sox Scandal; when he died in 1945, the owners hoped Albert "Happy" Chandler would be such a figurehead. He was not, as he blocked trades he felt were not in the game's best interests, levied fines against owners and dared [[UsefulNotes/JackieRobinson allow the color barrier to be broken]] against many owners' wishes. But when it was discovered he was looking to ban Yankees owner Del Webb and Cardinals owner Fred Saigh for associating with gamblers or other shady activities, Webb struck backroom deals with the other owners to get them to agree to not renew Chandler's contract. Webb was appointed head of the search committee to fans Chandler's replacement after suggesting baseball perhaps needed someone with a business and/or legal background - and then selected Frick, a former sportswriter and NL PR chief who had neither.
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* Ford Frick's appointment to the baseball commissioner's office was essentially a result of executive meddling by the club owners, who by 1950 made it clear they were running the game and the commissioner would be little more than a figurehead under their control. The owners were forced to appoint an authoritarian figure in 1920 in Kenesaw Mountain Landis to help clean up the game's image in the wake of the Black Sox Scandal; when he died in 1945, the owners hoped Albert "Happy" Chandler would be such a figurehead. He was not, as he blocked trades he felt were not in the game's best interests, levied fines against owners and dared [[UsefulNotes/JackieRobinson allow the color barrier to be broken]] against many owners' wishes. But when it was discovered he was looking to ban Yankees owner Del Webb and Cardinals owner Fred Saigh for associating with gamblers or other shady activities, Webb struck backroom deals with the other owners to get them to agree to not renew Chandler's contract. Webb was appointed head of the search committee to fans find Chandler's replacement after suggesting baseball perhaps needed someone with a business and/or legal background - and then selected Frick, a former sportswriter and NL PR chief who had neither.
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* In the 1980 Moscow UsefulNotes/OlympicGames, Brazilian triple jumper João de Oliveira had at least three valid jumps, one of which would break his own world record, annulled by the referees so they could give the gold (and silver) to a Soviet. [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories Some even argue that]] sponsors Adidas and Mizuno had a hand in it.
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* In the 1980 Moscow UsefulNotes/OlympicGames, Brazilian triple jumper João de Oliveira had at least three valid jumps, one of which would break his own world record, annulled by the referees so they could give the gold (and silver) to a Soviet. [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories Some even argue that]] that sponsors Adidas and Mizuno had a hand in it.
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* [[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague NHL]] commissioner Gary Bettman is booed in every single arena he walks into. [[MemeticMutation EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.]] During his tenure, he has brought about ''three'' lockouts, one cancelling the entire season and the others cancelling half, and has continuously defended franchises like the Florida Panthers and the Arizona Coyotes, whose home arenas are eternally empty, when numerous cities in Canada, and to a lesser extent the Northern U.S. (and even a couple further down in the south), could easily support a hockey team and are really desperate for an NHL franchise (Quebec City is the glaring example for a potential Nordiques revival, but Hamilton, Saskatoon, Houston, Kansas City, and even Seattle before the Kraken arrived are also open markets). This becomes even more puzzling when, after his numerous other cash grabs, he never seemed to notice how moving another such team from Atlanta to hockey-hungry Winnipeg resulted in the franchise receiving a ''massive'' revenue increase. Said move also brought about criticism of the administration when Winnipeg were kept in the Southeast Division for two years, with many blaming the Jets missing the playoffs-especially in their first year-on the tiring travel schedule brought about by this. And then when the NHL next expanded, it placed a team in ''Las Vegas'', snubbing Quebec City for that point in time.[[note]]Though this last item is at least defensible in a business sense. The NHL requires that all player salaries be expressed and paid in U.S. dollars. While this means payrolls won't fluctuate with exchange rates, it leaves Canadian teams very vulnerable to said changes, since they collect essentially all of their revenue in Canadian dollars. When the loonie is at or near par with the U.S. dollar, as it was in the early 2010s, it's very good for the Canadian teams' bottom lines. When the loonie loses value against its U.S. counterpart... not so much. When the NHL put Quebec City's latest attempt to rejoin the league on hold, the loonie was trading at about 75 US cents.[[/note]]
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* [[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague NHL]] commissioner Gary Bettman is booed in every single arena he walks into. [[MemeticMutation EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.]] During his tenure, he has brought about ''three'' lockouts, one cancelling the entire season and the others cancelling half, and has continuously defended franchises like the Florida Panthers and the Arizona Coyotes, whose home arenas are eternally empty, empty to the point where the Coyotes were eventually forced to accept a move into the 5,000 seat Mullett Arena in Arizona State University just to survive for the early 2020's, when numerous cities in Canada, and to a lesser extent the Northern U.S. (and even a couple further down in the south), could easily support a hockey team and are really desperate for an NHL franchise (Quebec City is the glaring example for a potential Nordiques revival, but Hamilton, Saskatoon, Houston, Kansas City, and even Seattle before the Kraken arrived are also open markets). This becomes even more puzzling when, after his numerous other cash grabs, he never seemed to notice how moving another such team from Atlanta to hockey-hungry Winnipeg resulted in the franchise receiving a ''massive'' revenue increase. Said move also brought about criticism of the administration when Winnipeg were kept in the Southeast Division for two years, with many blaming the Jets missing the playoffs-especially in their first year-on the tiring travel schedule brought about by this. And then when the NHL next expanded, it placed a team in ''Las Vegas'', snubbing Quebec City for that point in time.[[note]]Though this last item is at least defensible in a business sense. The NHL requires that all player salaries be expressed and paid in U.S. dollars. While this means payrolls won't fluctuate with exchange rates, it leaves Canadian teams very vulnerable to said changes, since they collect essentially all of their revenue in Canadian dollars. When the loonie is at or near par with the U.S. dollar, as it was in the early 2010s, it's very good for the Canadian teams' bottom lines. When the loonie loses value against its U.S. counterpart... not so much. When the NHL put Quebec City's latest attempt to rejoin the league on hold, the loonie was trading at about 75 US cents.[[/note]]
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* David Stern was widely accused of this during his tenure as [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]] commissioner. He was accused of rigging the 1985 Draft Lottery to ensure that Patrick Ewing, the top draft pick, went to the New York Knicks. The '90s Chicago Bulls dynasty was widely believed to get favorable calls from the referees in order to ensure success for UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan. That accusation has spread to later teams, including the early 2000s Los Angeles Lakers and the early 2010s Miami Heat. Concerning the former, the 2002 Western Conference Finals were allegedly rigged by the referees to ensure that the Lakers, who are in a larger media market than their opponents, the Sacramento Kings, went to the NBA Finals. This became apparent afterwards when referee Tim Donaghy was investigated for betting/rigging games, especially with the 2007 Western Conference Semifinals also having controversial referee and decision calling. His defense claimed that Game 6 in 2002, which featured twice as many free throws by the Lakers (most in the 4th quarter) in their 4-point win, was rigged. Same for the 2007 Western Conference Semifinals favoring the Spurs over the Suns in that match.
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* David Stern was widely accused of this during his tenure as [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]] commissioner. He was accused of rigging the 1985 Draft Lottery to ensure that Patrick Ewing, the top draft pick, went to the New York Knicks. The '90s Chicago Bulls dynasty was widely believed to get favorable calls from the referees in order to ensure success for UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan. That accusation has spread to later teams, including the early 2000s Los Angeles Lakers and the early 2010s Miami Heat. Concerning the former, the 2002 Western Conference Finals were allegedly rigged by the referees to ensure that the Lakers, who are in a larger media market than their opponents, the Sacramento Kings, went to the NBA Finals. This became apparent afterwards when referee Tim Donaghy was investigated for betting/rigging games, especially with the 2007 Western Conference Semifinals match-up between the Phoenix Suns and San Antonio Spurs also having controversial referee and decision calling. His defense claimed that Game 6 in 2002, which featured twice as many free throws by the Lakers (most in the 4th quarter) in their 4-point win, was rigged. Same for the 2007 Western Conference Semifinals favoring the Spurs over the Suns in that match.
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* In 1999, Manchester United won both the FA Cup and Champions League, the latter meaning they qualified for the inaugural World Club Cup, which was being held in Brazil at around the same time as the round of the FA Cup where they would have entered. In an attempt to secure the 2006 FIFA World Cup - for which they were bidding for - the FA pressured Manchester United into withdrawing from the FA Cup so they could compete in the Club World Cup without distraction. This backfired big-time, as (a) Germany were awarded the 2006 World Cup and (b) United's withdrawal has been cited as a reason for the decline in interest in the FA Cup.
* An averted example of this - in 2016, NBC requested (though it would later deny that it did so) that the Parade of Nations in the Rio 2016 Opening Ceremony be carried out in English rather than Portuguese, claiming viewing figures would be affected by an early appearance by the United States of America (they would be coming out early due to their name being "Estados Unidos da América" in Portuguese). The IOC refused this request, as it ran contrary to their rules stating that the countries come out according to the host nation's language. (Granted, there have been exceptions to that, due to either the host nation's request[[note]]Japan chose to do their parades in English prior to Tokyo 2020, which was in Japanese[[/note]] or because of political sensitivities[[note]]Barcelona's parade was in French due to tensions between the Spanish-speaking and Catalan-speaking populations[[/note]], but neither of those applied here.)
* An averted example of this - in 2016, NBC requested (though it would later deny that it did so) that the Parade of Nations in the Rio 2016 Opening Ceremony be carried out in English rather than Portuguese, claiming viewing figures would be affected by an early appearance by the United States of America (they would be coming out early due to their name being "Estados Unidos da América" in Portuguese). The IOC refused this request, as it ran contrary to their rules stating that the countries come out according to the host nation's language. (Granted, there have been exceptions to that, due to either the host nation's request[[note]]Japan chose to do their parades in English prior to Tokyo 2020, which was in Japanese[[/note]] or because of political sensitivities[[note]]Barcelona's parade was in French due to tensions between the Spanish-speaking and Catalan-speaking populations[[/note]], but neither of those applied here.)
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* In 1999, Manchester United won both the FA Cup and Champions League, the latter meaning they qualified for the inaugural World Club Cup, which was being held in Brazil at around the same time as the round of the FA Cup where they would have entered. In an attempt to secure the 2006 FIFA World Cup - for which they were bidding for - the FA pressured Manchester United into withdrawing from the FA Cup so they could compete in the Club World Cup without distraction. This backfired big-time, as (a) Germany were awarded the 2006 World Cup and (b) United's withdrawal has been cited as a reason for the decline in interest in the FA Cup.
* An averted example of this - in 2016, NBC requested (though it would later deny that it did so) that the Parade of Nations in the Rio 2016 Opening Ceremony be carried out in English rather than Portuguese, claiming viewing figures would be affected by an early appearance by the United States of America (they would be coming out early due to their name being "Estados Unidos da América" in Portuguese). The IOC refused this request, as it ran contrary to their rules stating that the countries come out according to the host nation's language. (Granted, there have been exceptions to that, due to either the host nation's request[[note]]Japan chose to do their parades in Englishprior to Tokyo 2020, which was in Japanese[[/note]] 1964[[/note]] or because of political sensitivities[[note]]Barcelona's parade was in French due to tensions between the Spanish-speaking and Catalan-speaking populations[[/note]], populations, and Nagano's in 1998 was done in English - had it been in Japanese, China and Chinese Taipei would have come out one after the other[[/note]], but neither of those applied here.)
* An averted example of this - in 2016, NBC requested (though it would later deny that it did so) that the Parade of Nations in the Rio 2016 Opening Ceremony be carried out in English rather than Portuguese, claiming viewing figures would be affected by an early appearance by the United States of America (they would be coming out early due to their name being "Estados Unidos da América" in Portuguese). The IOC refused this request, as it ran contrary to their rules stating that the countries come out according to the host nation's language. (Granted, there have been exceptions to that, due to either the host nation's request[[note]]Japan chose to do their parades in English
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* On October 1, 1961, in the fourth inning of the last game of the season, New York Yankee right fielder Roger Maris hit his 61st home run of the season, breaking Babe Ruth's single-season home run record. The problem was that Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick declared that, because eight games had been added to the baseball season between Ruth setting his record and Maris breaking it, the record would indicate that it took longer for Maris to break it. In addition, Ruth's record would be retained in the books. Frick's reason for doing this was simple: he'd been one of Ruth's best friends, and didn't think an "arrogant little nobody" like Maris was worthy of breaking such a "great man's" record. What makes this worse is that, at least at the time, all baseball records were "officially" kept not by the MLB, AL, or NL offices but by third party publications like ''Baseball Encyclopedia'' and ''The Sporting News'', which Frick had no official authority over. Even worse: Maris was finally recognized by MLB as the sole holder of the single season home run record in 1991. Unfortunately, Maris wasn't around to see it as he had died in 1985.[[note]]This story does have a happy ending of sorts, though. Maris' record was of course broken by 3 different players (Mark McGuire broke it in 1998 and finished that season with 70, Barry Bonds set the current record of 73 in 2001, Sammy Sosa only briefly held the record at various points in 1998 and isn't considered an "official" past record holder, but he did hit more than 61 home runs in a season 3 times), however with it being known that all 3 of those players were using steroids, and with enough time passing that the "61*" controversy has largely been forgotten, Maris is considered the true record holder by many hardcore baseball fans.[[/note]]
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* On October 1, 1961, in the fourth inning of the last game of the season, New York Yankee right fielder Roger Maris hit his 61st home run of the season, breaking Babe Ruth's single-season home run record. The problem was that Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick declared that, because eight games had been added to the baseball season between Ruth setting his record and Maris breaking it, the record would indicate that it took longer for Maris to break it. In addition, Ruth's record would be retained in the books. Frick's reason for doing this was simple: he'd been one of Ruth's best friends, and didn't think an "arrogant little nobody" like Maris was worthy of breaking such a "great man's" record. What makes this worse is that, at least at the time, all baseball records were "officially" kept not by the MLB, AL, or NL offices but by third party publications like ''Baseball Encyclopedia'' and ''The Sporting News'', which Frick had no official authority over. Even worse: Maris was finally recognized by MLB as the sole holder of the single season home run record in 1991. Unfortunately, Maris wasn't around to see it as he had died in 1985.[[note]]This story does have a happy ending of sorts, though. Maris' record was of course broken by 3 different players (Mark McGuire [=McGuire=] broke it in 1998 and finished that season with 70, Barry Bonds set the current record of 73 in 2001, Sammy Sosa only briefly held the record at various points in 1998 and isn't considered an "official" past record holder, but he did hit more than 61 home runs in a season 3 times), however with it being known that all 3 of those players were using steroids, and with enough time passing that the "61*" controversy has largely been forgotten, Maris is considered the true record holder by many hardcore baseball fans.[[/note]]
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* In the British Touring Car Championship's 2016 season, Team BMR wanted to use the Subaru Impreza as their car of choice. Subaru, seeking the marketing opportunity, made them choose the Levorg (an estate car not available in the American market) instead. Surprisingly, this went pretty well: although the car was occasionally a victim of CripplingOverspecialisation (the centre of mass made it excellent on technical circuits, but it struggled on tracks more focused on acceleration), it put Subaru fifth on the decade's manufacturer podium standings in the championship despite ten other manufacturers completing more racing laps, and it was even the car driven by 2017 driver's champion Ashley Sutton.
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* In the British Touring Car Championship's 2016 season, Team BMR wanted to use the Subaru Impreza as their car of choice. Subaru, seeking the marketing opportunity, made them choose the Levorg (an estate car not available in the American market) instead. Surprisingly, this went pretty well: although the car was occasionally a victim of CripplingOverspecialisation (the centre of mass made it excellent on technical circuits, but it struggled on tracks more focused on acceleration), it put Subaru fifth on the decade's manufacturer podium standings in the championship despite ten other manufacturers completing more racing laps, and it was even the car driven by 2017 driver's champion Ashley Sutton.Sutton.
* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Olympic_Men%27s_Basketball_Final 1972 Olympic Men's Basketball final]] infamously ended in controversy due to how the last three seconds of game were played three times. One of the causes of the controversy was the intervention of Renato William Jones, then-secretary general of FIBA, who overruled a decision by the referee (even though he had no authority to make rulings about a game in progress) and had the clock reset to three seconds.
* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Olympic_Men%27s_Basketball_Final 1972 Olympic Men's Basketball final]] infamously ended in controversy due to how the last three seconds of game were played three times. One of the causes of the controversy was the intervention of Renato William Jones, then-secretary general of FIBA, who overruled a decision by the referee (even though he had no authority to make rulings about a game in progress) and had the clock reset to three seconds.
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** The owner of Newcastle United, Mike Ashley a.k.a. the most hated man in Newcastle, owner of notoriously penny-pinching business Sports Direct, took over in 2007. The club had been challenging for the prized [[UsefulNotes/UEFAChampionsLeague Champions League]] places at the very top end of the Premier League, even challenging for the title five years before Ashley took over. While they'd had a bad year the season before he took over, they had still finished 13th, a mid table position and were considered to be a tough team. Two years and several managers later, one of whom, the well-respected Kevin Keegan, complained that the board was not providing sufficient financial support and implied that players were being forced upon him, they were relegated, the ultimate humiliation for a Premier League club. While they bounced back immediately afterwards and did enjoy a 5th-place finish in 2011/12, they ended up nearly being relegated the following season and have spent their time trying to avoid relegation - before biting the bullet again in 2016 - as Ashley sold valuable and influential players, pocketing most of the proceeds and buying up untested players in cut-price deals. While this was sometimes effective in the case of cult hero Fabricio Coloccini and midfielder Yohan Cabaye (the latter of which was sold on for a notable profit a year or two later), it was usually worse than ineffective. To add insult to injury, Ashley even renamed the iconic St. James' Park "the Sports Direct Arena". However, [[TakeThat even the BBC stopped bothering to call it that after about two weeks]] and everyone still refers to it as St. James' Park.
** Roman Abramovich, the Russian oligarch owner[[note]]Now former owner after his British-based assets were seized by the UK in compliance with sanctions levied against roughly 150 Russian oligarchs in response to the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine by the Russian military. As of May 2022 the team is under control of the British government while it's in the process of being sold.[[/note]] of Chelsea FC, is likewise infamous for this, firing even successful managers if he dislikes the way they play or if they fail to win the trophies that he wants. The only manager who lasted more than two years under his stewardship was José "The Special One" Mourinho, who seemed to broadly enjoy Abramovich's favor.[[note]]Mourinho was fired in December 2015, but reports are that this was more to him having lost respect from the players themselves rather than a falling out with ownership.[[/note]]
** Roman Abramovich, the Russian oligarch owner[[note]]Now former owner after his British-based assets were seized by the UK in compliance with sanctions levied against roughly 150 Russian oligarchs in response to the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine by the Russian military. As of May 2022 the team is under control of the British government while it's in the process of being sold.[[/note]] of Chelsea FC, is likewise infamous for this, firing even successful managers if he dislikes the way they play or if they fail to win the trophies that he wants. The only manager who lasted more than two years under his stewardship was José "The Special One" Mourinho, who seemed to broadly enjoy Abramovich's favor.[[note]]Mourinho was fired in December 2015, but reports are that this was more to him having lost respect from the players themselves rather than a falling out with ownership.[[/note]]
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** The owner of Newcastle United, Mike Ashley a.k.a. the most hated man in Newcastle, owner of notoriously penny-pinching business Sports Direct, took over in 2007. The club had been challenging for the prized [[UsefulNotes/UEFAChampionsLeague Champions League]] places at the very top end of the Premier League, even challenging for the title five years before Ashley took over. While they'd had a bad year the season before he took over, they had still finished 13th, a mid table position and were considered to be a tough team. Two years and several managers later, one of whom, the well-respected Kevin Keegan, complained that the board was not providing sufficient financial support and implied that players were being forced upon him, they were relegated, the ultimate humiliation for a Premier League club. While they bounced back immediately afterwards and did enjoy a 5th-place finish in 2011/12, they ended up nearly being relegated the following season and have spent their time trying to avoid relegation - before biting the bullet again in 2016 - as Ashley sold valuable and influential players, pocketing most of the proceeds and buying up untested players in cut-price deals. While this was sometimes effective in the case of cult hero Fabricio Coloccini and midfielder Yohan Cabaye (the latter of which whom was sold on for a notable profit a year or two later), it was usually worse than ineffective. To add insult to injury, Ashley even renamed the iconic St. James' Park "the Sports Direct Arena". However, [[TakeThat even the BBC stopped bothering to call it that after about two weeks]] and everyone still refers to it as St. James' Park.
Park. Ashley finally sold the club in 2021, to a consortium led by the Saudi Arabian government, AndThereWasMuchRejoicing[[note]]while the consortium is itself controversial, due to Saudi Arabia's human rights record and penchant for sportswashing, many fans still prefer them to Ashley, especially since they actually ''are'' investing in the club[[/note]].
** Roman Abramovich, the Russian oligarchowner[[note]]Now owner[[note]]now former owner owner, after his British-based assets were seized by the UK in compliance with sanctions levied against roughly 150 Russian oligarchs in response to the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine by the Russian military. As of May 2022 the team The club is under control of the British government while it's in the process of being sold.now owned by Los Angeles Dodgers owner Todd Boehly.[[/note]] of Chelsea FC, is likewise infamous for this, firing even successful managers if he dislikes the way they play or if they fail to win the trophies that he wants. The only manager who lasted more than two years under his stewardship was José "The Special One" Mourinho, who seemed to broadly enjoy Abramovich's favor.[[note]]Mourinho was fired in December 2015, but reports are that this was more to him having lost respect from the players themselves rather than a falling out with ownership.[[/note]]
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** Shahid Khan and son Tony, owners/investors of Fulham FC (as well as the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars and All Elite Wrestling). When the Khans bought the club from Mohamed Al Fayed in July 2013, Fulham was coming off a season where they finished 12th in the Premier League - where they had been since 2001 - and had been in the Europa League two of the prior three seasons. The first full season under Khan ownership, they finished 19th and were relegated. Then they were nearly relegated to the third tier the following season. Since 2018, the club has bounced back and forth between the Premier League and the EFL Championship, never staying up in the top flite for more than one season at at a time. There's little doubt many supporters of the club are not satisfied with the management of the club, particularly with Tony as Director of Football, especially given him splitting time between the other sporting groups his dad owns and him even calling Fulham a "yo-yo club" where relegation should not be considered that bad.
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** Shahid Khan and son Tony, owners/investors of Fulham FC (as well as the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars and All Elite Wrestling). When the Khans bought the club from Mohamed Al Fayed in July 2013, Fulham was were coming off a season where they finished 12th in the Premier League - where they had been since 2001 - and had been in the Europa League for two of the prior previous three seasons. The first full season under Khan ownership, they finished 19th and were relegated. Then they were nearly relegated to the third tier the following season. Since 2018, the club has bounced back and forth between the Premier League and the EFL Championship, never staying up in the top flite flight for more than one season at at a time. There's little doubt many supporters of the club are not satisfied with the management of the club, particularly with Tony as Director of Football, especially given him splitting time between the other sporting groups his dad owns and him even calling Fulham a "yo-yo club" where relegation should not be considered that bad.
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** Roman Abramovich, the Russian oligarch owner of Chelsea FC, is likewise infamous for this, firing even successful managers if he dislikes the way they play or if they fail to win the trophies that he wants. The only manager who lasted more than two years under his stewardship was José "The Special One" Mourinho, who seemed to broadly enjoy Abramovich's favor.[[note]]Mourinho was fired in December 2015, but reports are that this was more to him having lost respect from the players themselves rather than a falling out with ownership.[[/note]]
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** Roman Abramovich, the Russian oligarch owner[[note]]Now former owner after his British-based assets were seized by the UK in compliance with sanctions levied against roughly 150 Russian oligarchs in response to the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine by the Russian military. As of May 2022 the team is under control of the British government while it's in the process of being sold.[[/note]] of Chelsea FC, is likewise infamous for this, firing even successful managers if he dislikes the way they play or if they fail to win the trophies that he wants. The only manager who lasted more than two years under his stewardship was José "The Special One" Mourinho, who seemed to broadly enjoy Abramovich's favor.[[note]]Mourinho was fired in December 2015, but reports are that this was more to him having lost respect from the players themselves rather than a falling out with ownership.[[/note]]
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* On October 1, 1961, in the fourth inning of the last game of the season, New York Yankee right fielder Roger Maris hit his 61st home run of the season, breaking Babe Ruth's single-season home run record. The problem was that Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick declared that, because eight games had been added to the baseball season between Ruth setting his record and Maris breaking it, the record would indicate that it took longer for Maris to break it. In addition, Ruth's record would be retained in the books. Frick's reason for doing this was simple: he'd been one of Ruth's best friends, and didn't think an "arrogant little nobody" like Maris was worthy of breaking such a "great man's" record. What makes this worse is that, at least at the time, all baseball records were "officially" kept not by the MLB, AL, or NL offices but by third party publications like ''Baseball Encyclopedia'' and ''The Sporting News'', which Frick had no official authority over. Even worse: Maris was finally recognized by MLB as the sole holder of the single season home run record in 1991. Unfortunately, Maris wasn't around to see it as he had died in 1985.[[note]]This story does have a happy ending of sorts, though. Maris' record was of course broken by 3 different players (Mark McGuire broke it in 1998 and finished that season with 70, Barry Bonds set the current record of 73 in 2001, Sammy Sosa only briefly held the record at various points in 1998 and isn't considered an "official" past record holder, but he did more than 61 home runs in a season 3 times), however with it being known that all 3 of those players were using steroids, and with enough time passing that the "61*" controversy has largely been forgotten, Maris is considered the true record holder by many hardcore baseball fans.[[/note]]
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* On October 1, 1961, in the fourth inning of the last game of the season, New York Yankee right fielder Roger Maris hit his 61st home run of the season, breaking Babe Ruth's single-season home run record. The problem was that Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick declared that, because eight games had been added to the baseball season between Ruth setting his record and Maris breaking it, the record would indicate that it took longer for Maris to break it. In addition, Ruth's record would be retained in the books. Frick's reason for doing this was simple: he'd been one of Ruth's best friends, and didn't think an "arrogant little nobody" like Maris was worthy of breaking such a "great man's" record. What makes this worse is that, at least at the time, all baseball records were "officially" kept not by the MLB, AL, or NL offices but by third party publications like ''Baseball Encyclopedia'' and ''The Sporting News'', which Frick had no official authority over. Even worse: Maris was finally recognized by MLB as the sole holder of the single season home run record in 1991. Unfortunately, Maris wasn't around to see it as he had died in 1985.[[note]]This story does have a happy ending of sorts, though. Maris' record was of course broken by 3 different players (Mark McGuire broke it in 1998 and finished that season with 70, Barry Bonds set the current record of 73 in 2001, Sammy Sosa only briefly held the record at various points in 1998 and isn't considered an "official" past record holder, but he did hit more than 61 home runs in a season 3 times), however with it being known that all 3 of those players were using steroids, and with enough time passing that the "61*" controversy has largely been forgotten, Maris is considered the true record holder by many hardcore baseball fans.[[/note]]
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* On October 1, 1961, in the fourth inning of the last game of the season, New York Yankee right fielder Roger Maris hit his 61st home run of the season, breaking Babe Ruth's single-season home run record. The problem was that Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick declared that, because eight games had been added to the baseball season between Ruth setting his record and Maris breaking it, the record would indicate that it took longer for Maris to break it. In addition, Ruth's record would be retained in the books. Frick's reason for doing this was simple: he'd been one of Ruth's best friends, and didn't think an "arrogant little nobody" like Maris was worthy of breaking such a "great man's" record. What makes this worse is that, at least at the time, all baseball records were "officially" kept not by the MLB, AL, or NL offices but by third party publications like ''Baseball Encyclopedia'' and ''The Sporting News'', which Frick had no official authority over. Even worse: Maris was finally recognized by MLB as the sole holder of the single season home run record in 1991. Unfortunately, Maris wasn't around to see it as he had died in 1985.
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* On October 1, 1961, in the fourth inning of the last game of the season, New York Yankee right fielder Roger Maris hit his 61st home run of the season, breaking Babe Ruth's single-season home run record. The problem was that Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick declared that, because eight games had been added to the baseball season between Ruth setting his record and Maris breaking it, the record would indicate that it took longer for Maris to break it. In addition, Ruth's record would be retained in the books. Frick's reason for doing this was simple: he'd been one of Ruth's best friends, and didn't think an "arrogant little nobody" like Maris was worthy of breaking such a "great man's" record. What makes this worse is that, at least at the time, all baseball records were "officially" kept not by the MLB, AL, or NL offices but by third party publications like ''Baseball Encyclopedia'' and ''The Sporting News'', which Frick had no official authority over. Even worse: Maris was finally recognized by MLB as the sole holder of the single season home run record in 1991. Unfortunately, Maris wasn't around to see it as he had died in 1985.[[note]]This story does have a happy ending of sorts, though. Maris' record was of course broken by 3 different players (Mark McGuire broke it in 1998 and finished that season with 70, Barry Bonds set the current record of 73 in 2001, Sammy Sosa only briefly held the record at various points in 1998 and isn't considered an "official" past record holder, but he did more than 61 home runs in a season 3 times), however with it being known that all 3 of those players were using steroids, and with enough time passing that the "61*" controversy has largely been forgotten, Maris is considered the true record holder by many hardcore baseball fans.[[/note]]
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* An averted example of this - in 2016, NBC requested (though it would later deny that it did so) that the Parade of Nations in the Rio 2016 Opening Ceremony be carried out in English rather than Portuguese, claiming viewing figures would be affected by an early appearance by the United States of America (they would be coming out early due to their name being "Estados Unidos da América" in Portuguese). The IOC refused this request, as it ran contrary to their rules stating that the countries come out according to the host nation's language. (Granted, there have been exceptions to that, due to either the host nation's request[[note]]Japan chose to do their parades in English[[/note]] or because of political sensitivities[[note]]Barcelona's parade was in French due to tensions between the Spanish-speaking and Catalan-speaking populations[[/note]], but neither of those applied here.)
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* An averted example of this - in 2016, NBC requested (though it would later deny that it did so) that the Parade of Nations in the Rio 2016 Opening Ceremony be carried out in English rather than Portuguese, claiming viewing figures would be affected by an early appearance by the United States of America (they would be coming out early due to their name being "Estados Unidos da América" in Portuguese). The IOC refused this request, as it ran contrary to their rules stating that the countries come out according to the host nation's language. (Granted, there have been exceptions to that, due to either the host nation's request[[note]]Japan chose to do their parades in English[[/note]] English prior to Tokyo 2020, which was in Japanese[[/note]] or because of political sensitivities[[note]]Barcelona's parade was in French due to tensions between the Spanish-speaking and Catalan-speaking populations[[/note]], but neither of those applied here.)
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** Donald Sterling can also be considered that for the Los Angeles Clippers when looking at his ownership problems with the team until his eventual banning in 2014. When he was the owner of the then-San Diego Clippers in 1982, he caused immediate problems with the rest of the NBA, devaluing the team immediately after they already previously lost value in Buffalo back when they were the Braves there a few years prior, to the point of almost being kicked out of his ownership role there. However, David Stern allowed for Sterling to take on a more simplified ownership of the Clippers instead of being forced to sell the team to someone else, with Alan Rothenberg taking over the financial duties there. While the team survived due to the change of hands for financial duties, Sterling still had final says on what he wanted on his mind there, which included a forced move to Los Angeles in 1984 after being encouraged by results of the Oakland Raiders moving to Los Angeles a couple of years earlier. Once he did move the team, Sterling continued being a very frugal owner for the Clippers, firing head coaches constantly while somehow keeping Elgin Baylor as a team executive for 22 straight years (likely for name recognition alone). However, Sterling's sense of entitlement as the team owner ultimately led to his downfall, with a leaked conversation in 2013 being released to the public during the 2014 NBA Playoffs revealing his scumbag racist behavior to the public eye after hints of it was shown in a somewhat public manner many times beforehand. That conversation was what led to Sterling being permanently banned under new commissioner Adam Silver days after the leak, later selling the team to Steve Ballmer of Microsoft fame for two billion dollars.
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* [[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague NHL]] commissioner Gary Bettman is booed in every single arena he walks into. [[MemeticMutation EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.]] During his tenure, he has brought about ''three'' lockouts, one cancelling the entire season and the others cancelling half, and has continuously defended franchises like the Florida Panthers and the Arizona Coyotes, whose home arenas are eternally empty, when numerous cities in Canada, and to a lesser extent the Northern U.S. (and even a couple further down in the south), could easily support a hockey team and are really desperate for an NHL franchise (Quebec City is the glaring example for a potential Nordiques revival, but Hamilton, Saskatoon, and Seattle[[note]](They actually are due to have a team by 2021 with the Kraken.)[[/note]] are also open markets). This becomes even more puzzling when, after his numerous other cash grabs, he never seemed to notice how moving another such team from Atlanta to hockey-hungry Winnipeg resulted in the franchise receiving a ''massive'' revenue increase. Said move also brought about criticism of the administration when Winnipeg were kept in the Southeast Division for two years, with many blaming the Jets missing the playoffs-especially in their first year-on the tiring travel schedule brought about by this. And then when the NHL next expanded, it placed a team in ''Las Vegas'', snubbing Quebec City for that point in time.[[note]]Though this last item is at least defensible in a business sense. The NHL requires that all player salaries be expressed and paid in U.S. dollars. While this means payrolls won't fluctuate with exchange rates, it leaves Canadian teams very vulnerable to said changes, since they collect essentially all of their revenue in Canadian dollars. When the loonie is at or near par with the U.S. dollar, as it was in the early 2010s, it's very good for the Canadian teams' bottom lines. When the loonie loses value against its U.S. counterpart... not so much. When the NHL put Quebec City's latest attempt to rejoin the league on hold, the loonie was trading at about 75 US cents.[[/note]]
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* [[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague NHL]] commissioner Gary Bettman is booed in every single arena he walks into. [[MemeticMutation EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.]] During his tenure, he has brought about ''three'' lockouts, one cancelling the entire season and the others cancelling half, and has continuously defended franchises like the Florida Panthers and the Arizona Coyotes, whose home arenas are eternally empty, when numerous cities in Canada, and to a lesser extent the Northern U.S. (and even a couple further down in the south), could easily support a hockey team and are really desperate for an NHL franchise (Quebec City is the glaring example for a potential Nordiques revival, but Hamilton, Saskatoon, Houston, Kansas City, and Seattle[[note]](They actually are due to have a team by 2021 with even Seattle before the Kraken.)[[/note]] Kraken arrived are also open markets). This becomes even more puzzling when, after his numerous other cash grabs, he never seemed to notice how moving another such team from Atlanta to hockey-hungry Winnipeg resulted in the franchise receiving a ''massive'' revenue increase. Said move also brought about criticism of the administration when Winnipeg were kept in the Southeast Division for two years, with many blaming the Jets missing the playoffs-especially in their first year-on the tiring travel schedule brought about by this. And then when the NHL next expanded, it placed a team in ''Las Vegas'', snubbing Quebec City for that point in time.[[note]]Though this last item is at least defensible in a business sense. The NHL requires that all player salaries be expressed and paid in U.S. dollars. While this means payrolls won't fluctuate with exchange rates, it leaves Canadian teams very vulnerable to said changes, since they collect essentially all of their revenue in Canadian dollars. When the loonie is at or near par with the U.S. dollar, as it was in the early 2010s, it's very good for the Canadian teams' bottom lines. When the loonie loses value against its U.S. counterpart... not so much. When the NHL put Quebec City's latest attempt to rejoin the league on hold, the loonie was trading at about 75 US cents.[[/note]]
