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The Arena Football League mothballed itself for a season. The most-successful franchise in the WNBA, the Houston Comets, folded. NFL commish Roger Goodell took a pay cut of around 20 percent and laid off at least 150 workers for the league. And Mr. RBI, Manny Ramirez, got less than he's worth in free agency.Yes, these are tough times for sports. But this may truly sum up the impact of the worldwide recession on sports.
Romain Mesnil, the pole vault silver medalist at the 2007 Athletics World Championships, has taken to jogging through the streets of Paris with little else than his pole -- um, the fiberglass one -- in an attempt to replace sponsorship money he's lost in the economic downturn. Nike didn't renew his contract, he said on his Web site.
"It was probably for budgetary and strategic reasons," he wrote. "It's the crisis."
So bad, he's lost more than his shirt.
Kevin B. Blackistone is a panelist on ESPN's Around the Horn, the Shirley Povich Chair in Sports Journalism at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, and a former award-winning sports columnist for The Dallas Morning News. He currently lives in Silver Spring, Md.
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