Hey there, boys and girls. Welcome to another edition of the Business of Sports with Andrew Brandt.

Happy 2022. Last week, we were in another year, 2021. I gave you the top 10 stories from the Business of Sports for 2021.

Here we're going to 2022. It's a rants edition of the Business of Sports.

I got a lot of them because last week was not really about the current events going on.

And a lot happened in the last week of 2021.

There's a lot happening in the first week of 2022.

I'm going to address it all.

I got about seven, six, seven, eight rants here.

But we'll go quickly through them.

I know you all like the podcast being kind of a half hour,

kind of works with your schedule.

That's the way I do it.

And we'll keep it to that length so you can get through it on your, on your run, on your walk, on your dog walk, on your drive,

however you listen to the business sports podcast,

we are presented as always by Draft Kings. A couple notes before we start. I hope you all are

getting the newsletter at Andrew dashbrant.com. I am starting a new part to the newsletter,

even a bigger part, more premium content, where you're going to get a dose of me

basically every day. We're going to do a weekly roundtable, do a monthly lecture, and that's all

to join the sports business league. Put the link in the show notes. I'm kind of humbled by the

amount of sign-ups we've had. I've never really done anything premium, and of course I'm going to

continue to do the podcast free. I'm going to continue to do the newsletter free, the column, all of my writing, etc. But giving a way to sort of get me every day. The sports business league, I'm going to start it probably around January 15th coming up soon. So jump in, link in the show notes, join the sports business league.

All right. Let's get to it. Where should we start? I want to start with COVID, of course.

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