Boston Globe writers Chris Dempsey and Conor Yunits say "boosters" for Boston's potential 2024 Olympic bid are "asking the wrong question." The question is not "Can Boston host the Olympics," Dempsey and Yunits write, "but 'should Boston host the Olympics?'"
Boston.com staffer Adam Vaccaro refutes the suggestion that an Olympic-sized stadium in Boston could make for a long-term home for the New England Revolution. The idea, proposed in a Boston Globe article, does not "make any sense" to Vaccaro and is "not a reasonable justification" for Boston's potential 2024 Olympic bid.
Atlanta Journal Constitution's Jim Galloway says despite Boston's resilience demonstrated in its rivalry with the "pinstripes in New York City," and its refusal to allow terrorists to 'steal the Boston Marathon's soul,' the city "has its limits." Galloway says the city is now showing concerns over the billions the 2024 Summer Olympics would cost.
Brazil 2014
Forbes stafferChristina Settimi features the "most expensive" teams, as well as each team's most valuable player, at the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
"Germany is making headlines for the wrong reasons," Time Magazine's Stephanie Burnett writes. Burnett explores how racism and Nazism are "haunting" Germany's World Cup campaign.
National Public Radio's Carrie Kahn says someMexico fans feel "unfairly targeted" for their World Cup chants.
Miami Herald columnist and former CNN producer Frida Ghitis assures football spectators that it is "okay to enjoy the World Cup while the world's on fire." Ghitis says people across the world love the Cup for "special reasons...unlike other tournaments, this one puts countries of all sizes on the stage."
Sochi Olympics "Boost"
Ad Age writer Ashley Rodriguez says the 2014 Winter Olympics contributed to a "jump" in ad spending for the first quarter of the new year in the United States.
World Screen'sKristin Brzoznowski also cites reports that attribute a "boost" intotal U.S. advertising expenditures in the first quarterto the Sochi Games.
In Other News
In a special toThe Japan Times, writer Robert Whiting discusses why he thinksholding the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in August is a "dangerous" idea.Whiting says being in Tokyo, Japan in August is like "sitting inside one big sauna bath for a solid two months after the rainy season ends."
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