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As of 2013, the agreement between Major league Baseball (MLB) and Nippon Professional Baseball League (NPB) known as at the posting system, has expired and they are currently negotiating a new agreement. In the previous agreement Japanese players first had … Continue reading →

In chapter 9 of Dave Zirin’s book Game Over, he discusses the racial barriers that exist in the modern day professional sport world. Zirin goes on to discuss various examples of racism that occur in professional sport. One of the … Continue reading →

The world of sport has been around for what seems like forever, and is something that almost every person has participating in throughout their life. Most try various sports when they are young children, but now a days with the … Continue reading →