Navigating Global Football Cartels: Lessons From The Colombian Drug Trade

In the digital age, sport is a commodity, and the beautiful game runs like a football cartel, and if it is to tread into the future, it should learn lessons from its more nefarious cousins, drug cartels, before it too crumbles under its own weight.

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The Business of Surfing in India

You’d think a pandemic isn’t the time to experiment. That searching for a new job or exploring offbeat opportunities when the economy appears to be on the verge of a recession wouldn’t be a sound idea.

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Inside the NBA Bubble

They say ‘you don’t miss something until it’s gone’. The year 2020 has had so many paradigm-shifting moments that it has put the aforementioned saying into perspective. The unexpected demise of Kobe Bryant and his daughter shook the entire basketball fraternity. It brought the NBA to a halt, to pay tribute to this great legend. Nobody could have anticipated what was going to happen next. A small but deadly virus was about to bring the world to its knees.

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The Business of Sports in a Post Covid-19 World

“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”

This makes me think of the question – If a forward heads the ball into the goal and there is no one in the stadium to clap, did he really score?
Ok, cheer, not clap. That’s a bit of a sensitive topic currently. But, the point remains. Can there be sports without spectators?

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