In the next decade, a league will experiment with playing games just on soundstages. williamfleitch makes some bold predictions for the next ten years in sports
Could these guys finally win the big one? Photo: Don Wright/AP/Shutterstock On December 31, 2009, we had no idea who Mike Trout was; Giannis Antetokounmpo was a 15-year-old kid hawking watches on the streets of Athens, Greece; and Tom Brady … well, okay, Tom Brady was doing exactly the same thing he’s doing now.
The illusion of cooperation between labor and management to work together for the greater good of the game has long evaporated. Both sides treat each other as enemies and are dug in, willing to wait each other out. But if they don’t have the game’s best interests in mind, no one else will. You have multiple kamikaze actors, convinced the other side is dead wrong, in an industry that’s likely to become less profitable, in a world that’s on fire.
3. We’ll have a female head coach of a major men’s sports team. This could happen very soon, with the Spurs’ Becky Hammon a perpetual candidate because of her experience and her place alongside Gregg Popovich, considered one of the greatest minds in the sport’s history. But the NFL has ten full-time female assistant coaches, the NBA has 11, and the Yankees have a hitting instructor who’s a woman.
The relentless success of ESPN’s “30 for 30” franchise shows the pocketbook power of aging sports fans all yearning for the way things used to be, just like their parents did. Eventually you won’t need to watch a game at all. You’ll just need to read the eventual oral history of it. When you add in the expected increase in insurance costs for collegiate programs — which could go up even more with further research about the short- and long-term effects of playing such a violent sport — and the activist nature of college campuses in the first place, at what point does a college decide it’s not worth it? Imagine this trend beginning in the Ivy League, or the Patriot League, and working its way up.
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