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Nice Work If You Can Get It

By Peter Keating

Monday, October 20, 2008

A couple of minutes watching LJ break tackles—or a couple of seconds watching LeBron work the perimeter—is enough to remind most of us that we'll never have careers in sports. At least not the sweaty kind. But a quick peek inside the corporations that employ Johnson and James reveals that, these days, there's plenty of room off the field to live the dream of landing a job in sports. Not too long ago, gazillionaires with names like Busch and Wrigley owned and ran sports franchises l ...

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