University of Central Florida STARS On Sport and Society Public History 4-22-2001 Sports Drafts: The New N on-Events - XFL Championship - Mark Cuban and others Richard C. Crepeau University of Central Florida,
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[email protected]. Recommended Citation Crepeau, Richard C., "Sports Drafts: The New N on-Events - XFL Championship - Mark Cuban and others" (2001). On Sport and Society. 611. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/onsportandsociety/611 SPORT AND SOCIETY FOR H-ARETE April 22, 2001 Hasim Rahman is the new heavyweight champion of the boxing world, or at least that part of the boxing world governed by the IBF and WBC, whoever or whatever they may be. The only relevant questions here are: what does this mean for Don King? Who is Hasim Rahman? And where is Mike Tyson? It has been an interesting weekend in and around sport. Is there a bigger non-event in the world than the NFL Draft? Hours and hours of television filled with hours and hours of banal conversations and profiles of vacuous adolescents while waiting for the clock to signal the time for the next pick.