This situation of payment to play sports has been around for a long time. Many years ago, baseball was king. Companies recruited top athletes to play on their company baseball team. They offered the athlete a job at the company which was dependent upon how well they played on the field not how well they performed on their job. The company baseball leagues were suppose to be a friendly game between company’s with only employees of the company playing in the games. These company leagues soon transformed into something else. Eventually, gambling entered the scene and these company adversarial leagues had to be disbanded.
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