09-13-2011, 10:42 AM
(09-12-2011, 12:40 PM)billy Wrote: most sports have rules to punish players should they get too john macinroeThey do.
But it's token. She got fined $2000 deducted from her winning of $1.4M
The truth is the governing authorities of any sport love bad boys/girls. And they love them because the public loves them.
Top level sport is no longer (was it ever?) about "sport". It's about entertainment, and outbursts have high "tut, tut" value--to put it bluntly: they're entertaining.
In fact a better question might be: is there any such thing anywhere as "pure sport"? Even the mums and dads standing on the sidelines of their kids football matches want to see their offspring crush the opposition not be "beaten by a better side"
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."