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Fans yearn for sports that are free from blatant huckstering and crass commercialism. We ought to protect sports from the corporations who wish to use sports for their own purposes, to turn them into cheap and gaudy vehicles for corporate marketing.
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Commercial Alert Statement on First Sponsorship of the Kentucky Derby
Gary Ruskin | January 31st, 2006
Baseball Fans to Sony: Get off the Field
Gary Ruskin | May 7th, 2004
Commercial Alert Urges People, Baseball Fans Not to Buy Sony Products or See Sony Movies
Gary Ruskin | May 5th, 2004
Commercial Alert Asks Bud Selig About Ads on Baseball Uniforms
Gary Ruskin | March 31st, 2004
Commercial Alert Asks Sportswriters to Call Sports Stadiums by Nicknames, Not Corporate Names
Gary Ruskin | June 13th, 2000
Nader Urges Major League Baseball to Reject Uniform Ads
Gary Ruskin | March 31st, 1999
Articles
Omnipresent Advertising is Bowling Us Over
Gary Ruskin | January 28th, 2001
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