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Hello!

And welcome to the Sports Week edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

And this week, I'm not quite sure why. It's probably

just happenstance. There's been a lot of sporting news. And to try and, what's the word,

distract us from the utterly terrible everything that is going on everywhere in the world right now,

we've decided we're just going to talk about sports this week because it's going to be a

happy edition of Slate Money, three different types of sports in particular, which we're

going to talk to, or we, of course, being Jordan Weissman, the sports-obsessed moneybox columnist at Slate.

I don't know if this is going to be a happy episode, Felix.

We're going to talk, it's perhaps a lighter episode. A lighter episode. A lighter. A lighter. We are not relative. And Kathy O'Neill, the blogger at mathbabe.org, and a data scientist, who is also, we have learned in previous episodes, a bit of a sports fan.

I am. I am a huge sports fan. Although I have limits, and we'll learn about those soon.

So what I thought we would do this week, because I'm incredibly organized this week. We don't just throw this show together. No.

Is split sports into two big buckets, which are amateur and professional.

And we're going to talk about the greatest amateur sports festival in the world,

aka the Olympics, which is, of course, rather less amateur than it used to be.

Sort of amateur, half amateur.

Previously amateur, formerly amateur.

And then we are going to talk about professional sports as well, which are dominated by

labor in the form of the NBA, where the powerful players union is managing to bring

vast sums of money to the people who run up and down the court.

And we are going to talk Kathy about professional sports which are dominated by capital in the form of the UFC, which is a sport which I have to admit I was only vaguely aware of up until the point at which it was sold for how much?

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