Is sports too closely linked to money these days?

After the competition of world cup the buying and selling of the football stars has strike its news in the internet and in newspaper as a viral. The selling of Liverpool striker Luis Suarez to the span's club Barcelona and buying the striker James Rodriguez by the Real Madrid in huge sums has overflow its news in Internet. The all times higher transfer of Gareth Bale from the Tottenham Hotshot to the Real Madrid was had also been a great new in sports. So there are huge sums of money in sports.

It is amazing that prices are attached to sports stars saying that they are worth so much. It is also unbelievable that they are bought and sold between clubs. This is much a prevalent practice that no one stops to ask if the practice is human. What really means is that the sports stars play for money; what they do is make livings. What used to be a game like football -it not so anymore. So, much so that even children's who play football in schools have an eye on the future when they hope to play for big money. On the playing fields, where one sees the stars in the action, one sees why games are not games anymore. Actually games are battles by proxy. The stars need to score in order to keep their price tags intact. A sport is certainly linked too much to money.

Perhaps the popularity of a sport is what makes it such a big money concern. Whereas, sports used to be played in stadium watched by a few thousands spectators, sports nowadays is broadcast over TV and radio, and watched or listened to by millions. The broadcasting involves huge sums by way of advertisements and is a great source of income for the broadcasting stations. Naturally a rivalry exists between stations to get the contract for the broadcasts. Again money is involved.

Countries throughout the world are caught in the sports and money rackets as well. Like the mercenaries that join armies to fight for a fee, sports stars work for countries sports team. Of particular note in this area is football. It is common for countries to hire sports star to join the country's team in exchange for exorbitant fees and then play and win with the other teams in the neighborhood. The stars are given fantastic perks like housing and citizenship to tempt them. One wonders if the countries feel any real glory when what they have is a team of mercenaries playing for them. Again we see the issue of money looming like a giant in sports.

Lastly, but certainly no less important, is the issue of gambling. Sport as a form of gambling exists even in the countries where governments are known to be against gambling in the other forms. Every one bets and since the gambling involves enormous amounts of money, there are those who wants to win at any cost. Doping match fixing and even hurting of opposing players take place. Again, we see that money is at the back of all the dishonesty.
It is therefore true that money nowadays is too closely linked to money. Since the dominance of money is sports, it is just a business. Gone are the days when sports used to be, well sports.