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Xandu posted:They didn't just pay for the sponsorship, which is obviously totally normal, but that they paid an intermediary millions for arranging it. Any chance Nike is gonna get hit with FCPA for that? For those not in the know, FCPA is the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act which makes it extremely illegal to bribe foreign officials (even if the bribe is legal in that country). It's pretty much the worst thing for a company to get smacked with short of RICO. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act evilweasel posted:Eh, as long as they filed suspicious transaction reports I'm not seeing any banking wrongdoing here. If FCPA applies it could get fairly nasty, although there hasn't been any real big landmark case that I know about. axeil fucked around with this message at 05:46 on Jun 3, 2015 |
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Zeroisanumber posted:These guys are going to fold like a house of cards. A snarling US attorney waves 10 years under the nose of a 60-ish football executive and tells him that either he rolls or he's going to die a penniless ex-con? Those people are going to offer up everyone that they know. Sepp announces his life long dream of joining ISIS and blowing up FIFA HQ. Posture Pal posted:Jack Warner has released a video claiming, among other things, that FIFA influenced the 2010 Trinidadian elections. If that's actually the case, this rabbit hole's going to the center of the Earth. Okay now it's getting interesting. It's gonna be hilarious if FIFA somehow was propping up all the corrupt Caribbean countries. That's the USA's job! 
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FuriousxGeorge posted:Yeah, the MLS hates the optics of that sort of thing though and has made a concerted effort to get the smaller buildings built. Philly metro area has around 7 million people to Boston metro's 8. They built a stadium that seats 18,500. Boston probably wouldn't want to go a ton bigger than that. DC United plays in the withered husk of RFK and the entire upper section is closed off for fear of ghosts and structural decay. Of course DC United games tend to at least fill the lower section so it doesn't look as bad.
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blowfish posted:Why does America have ginormous college stadiums (and even high school stadiums The NCAA is the American version of FIFA. Except our players don't even get paid. There have been numerous stories about players at schools not having enough money for food (because you also can't get a part time job and play football) while the coaches are making millions each year and the school builds these giant stadiums. And the school typically has rules in place that a large percent of the football money has to stay within the program, so you get things like Alabama having nicer training facilities than most pro teams. As a result, all the largest stadiums in the country are for college football, not professional football because the college teams in some areas (Alabama, Oklahoma, etc) are the only real sports team around and they also can draw on all the people who went to school there to come to games. If you've never seen an American college football game it's a crazy sight to behold. axeil fucked around with this message at 14:23 on Jun 7, 2015 |
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:Everybody should cheer for the success of collegiate rugby, which (aside from a few women's programs) exists wholly outside of the NCAA, yet still is getting some TV exposure through NBC Ultimate frisbee is also entirely outside the clutches of the NCAA, and like football in the early 1900s the game at the college/amateur club level is way way better than the pro level. Of course I don't think I've even seen anyone on this forum that knows much about ultimate, let alone plays it but it's a really good game if you wanna support your local university and also jot support the NCAA. Plus the traditional ultimate powers aren't all the same teams as in college football. Colorado has a terrible football team but have one of the best ultimate squads out there. University of Pittsburgh too.
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Shifty Pony posted:Formula One What's going on that's so corrupt in Formula One?
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