hoich any professional sport not have the anti-trust exemphasis? >> i don't claim to know about basketball or soccer. i know football and baseball and they both do. host: any effort in the last few years to take that away? guest: i think senator specter was the last person who struggled with removing the anti-trust exemphasis and it certainly didn't happen. host: when did you get interested in this and you can tell in your book you are angry. guest: i am absolutely angry. rich people shouldn't be subsidized by the public. i'm more concerned about the health damage that football does to young people and the correcting effect on college education because these affect a larger number of americans than the various hanky pankey that goes on with the nfl. i started writing my football column for espn the year 2000, 2001, somewhere in there and i thought maybe i should look at some of the health research and i was shocked with what i saw. i have three children. two boys who wanted to play football themselves. i did not allow them to play until they were i

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