The transcript from the inevitable David Stern press conference to discuss putrid NBA attendance:DAVID STERN: While we’re certainly concerned with flagging attendance levels, I’d like to remind you that the season is still very early. I know the press likes to make a big story out of this, but if you review our attendance figures from years past, you’ll notice that our attendance levels tend to increase as the year progresses and fan interest improves.REPORTER: ...

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31. Proud to be SeattleJew Today spews: The key idea, missing in this discussion, is that the government MUST switch from the now failed model of free market capitalism to a model more like that lf Europe and Japan where the government itself is a major investor. The essence of 19th century capitalism was the concept that entrepreneurs would do the tight thing by ...

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