Sports are a major part of the mosaic of what makes a community a community.
In the outsized business of sports, owners and players enjoy profits and incomes incomprehensible to fans who pay ever-increasing ticket prices, and taxpayers, who see their wages invested in sports stadiums. How to explain this "boxcar economy"?
Mike Lederman,
former
executive producer of
Chicago Tonight, mediated
this discussion on issues surrounding sports today, from economics and advertising to performance enhancers. Panelists include University of Chicago economics lecturer
Allan Sanderson, sports finance consultant
Marc Ganis,
attorney and former pro team owner
Peter Bynoe, and baseball labor leader
Donald Fehr.