Immigreat : How to Revitalize American Sports

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He’s a high profile 40 year old semi-athletic business type with a love for basketball and a frequent flyer who is here to bring us change. But, unlike Barrack Obama he is change we can believe and not only should we believe in it, we should embrace it.

        The Russian businessman wrote recently on his Mikhail Prokhorov said on a blog Tuesday that he would be willing to throw some of his billions, the guy is worth around seven of them into saving the New York/New Jersey Nets and their planned Frank Gehry inspired arena.

             Now apparently they are a bit behind the times their in Moscow because if Mikhail Prokhorov had really wanted to make a scene he would of twittered this comment.

                Foreign ownership of major sports teams has already become an established fact in the English Premiership where every year a Gulf billionaire, a former tin-pot Thai renegade, or a Russian oil-tycoon(or Moghul if your into the whole South Asian History thing). Buys one of leagues well-known which often brings howls of disapproval from  English fans most notably when Malcom Glazer, the American owner of the Tampa Bay Bucaneers bought a large stake in the New York Yankees of English football: Manchester United. Regardless of criticism these owners have revitalized the teams they have owned and made English football a global brand.

                Now I’m sure in the coming weeks we will see if Mr. Prokhorov’s plan will come to fruition. Even if it doesn't at some point in the near future some person with a different color passport than blue will buy an American sports franchise. We as Americans need to embrace it because foreigners are the best thing to happen to American sports since Babe Ruth.

The past thirty years have given us ample proof of this. Increasingly, foreign athletes are not just taking fringe roles in American sports but staring. First of course there is no better place than to start with Hideo Nomo, his tornado move made him a dominate pitcher for 

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