Sports fans can turn on a high-price, low-performing player fast. (Is Tim Tebow still around?) Arts fans are somewhat more forgiving until an artist acquires money and fame.
NeuLion now provides similar services for other professional sports leagues, including the NFL and NBA. A recent partnership with the UFC lets mixed-martial arts fans purchase a series of fights to watch with more camera angles, audio feeds, and interactive options than they could otherwise.
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For fans of mixed martial arts, Saturday is a big day: UFC 74 Respect in Las Vegas.
For the 80, 000 Bonnaroo Music and Arts festival fans that came to a field just south of Nashville last week, the new Heartland offered a very eclectic mix of music.
Loyal fans like Schiele have made Electronic Arts the world's largest maker of videogame software.
Jobs is an aesthete who can enthrall Apple fans with lectures about how liberal arts and technology intersect.
Either way, the device could give boxing a second wind at a time when fight fans increasingly are turning to mixed martial arts, or MMA, a form of combat that more often ends with decisive knockouts.
But at least one poster saw some logic in the IOC's popularity reasoning, and pointed at mixed martial arts, the combination of boxing, wrestling and martial arts that is drawing legions of new fans.
Those that argue American sports fans do indeed love violence point to things such as (1) the precipitous increase in interest for mixed martial arts and UFC compared to boxing, or (2) the fact that hockey fans go nuts whenever 2 meat heads start fighting.
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It's entertaining when sports fans chew the fat in that way, but in the arts certain criticisms simply come off as cruel, snobby or absurd.
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