Free athletic market

Becky Hammon may not realize she is making a statement about globalisation when she shirts up for Russia this week in Beijing. The native South Dakotan basketball star decided to dribble for Russia’s Olympic team after concluding she wasn’t going to make Team USA. Some Americans called her decision unpatriotic. But that may just be an old-fashioned way of looking at sports. The sports business, like so many industries these days, is a multinational affair. Baseball, soccer, cricket, tennis - th...