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If you want to cheer, buy a ticket

By Murray Greig | China Daily | Updated: 2016-03-23 08:26

With a tip of his fedora to the free hot dogs and beer, the late, great author and New York Post columnist Jimmy Cannon famously declared: "Sportswriters work in the toy department of human life."

Well, we used to.

Then along came cellphones, the Internet, Twitter ... and the erosion of old-school objectivity. Free food and beer all but disappeared.

If you want to cheer, buy a ticket

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