"The Olympic movement used to be about amateur sports, " Gardner told the Journal's Sara Germano.
The minister asked members to instead support the DUP amendment to examine the rate relief as, while amateur sports clubs in Northern Ireland enjoy a blanket application of the 80% rate relief, the 100% rate offered in other parts of the UK came with "considerable conditions".
The Super Bowl is the sports world's biggest amateur day, and if you're a hard-core fan who's spent all season paying rapt attention, you will be chagrined to discover you're suddenly in a room with chattering dilettantes, asking if that guy on the screen is really named Ochocinco.
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Less clear is whether Atlanta bronze medalist Arimori Yuko will run for Japan -- a reflection of the controversy over the status of "amateur" sports.
And amateur sport was rewarded with the Welsh Sports Unsung Hero accolade, won by rugby and boxing volunteer Cliff Williams from Pontyclun in Rhondda Cynon Taf.
The economics of sports networks on cable television is well documented -- the majority pay so that the vocal minority may watch -- but sculpting an amateur sports league to ensure your cable TV channel gets carriage in America's largest media markets might be a new twist.
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Let's start reeducation our youngsters in the next generation so we really can return to a threshold of amateur sports that are clean performances.
Dr. Patrick Rishe is the Director of Sportsimpacts, a sports consulting firm specializing in market research analyses for professional and amateur sports entities.
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