Columbus Crew fan won't tolerate game being moved to Cleveland

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About the Columbus crew

To the editor:Thanks for the great article about our Crew. I have to say I was a little taken aback. My wife and I moved to Columbus in 2020 and became season ticket holders in 2021. We currently have six season tickets and have enjoyed two championships and many fun times with family at Lower.com. I have paid approximately $5,600 this year for our additional seats and games, so I consider myself a loyal season ticket holder and fan. (I traveled to St. Paul in February to see the Crew play.)

I just renewed my season tickets (the price is up 50% from the 2023 season) and expressed my displeasure to my ticket sales rep about the price increase. He toed the party line with the explanation: We want to keep winning, players cost too much, the Haslams are a poor family… just kidding about that last point. While I wasn’t formally informed about the possibility of playing in Cleveland when I renewed over the phone, the rep did say he could read the fine print on the renewal contract, which I refused to let him do, so that’s on me.

But for the Haslams to think they can move a game from Columbus to Cleveland to put more money in their pockets is unseemly (other words that could be used there). While I am committed to my season tickets for 2025, I probably won’t renew them in 2026 if they try to do something like that. I am very disappointed in the owners.

Dan Foote, Grove City

For DanFootball fans get angry easily, but this is one issue they have a right to complain about loudly. For one of the most loyal fan bases in American sport to move their team’s game against Messi to Cleveland would be a huge insult and a disregard for the history of this city.

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About Simone Biles

To the editor:This country has a huge ignorance about what a hero is. This woman is just an artist. That’s all. She’s a gymnast, not a protector of this country, a firefighter, a paramedic, a police officer, etc. These people don’t get any recognition. How sad.

Miguel

On Olympic basketball

For Brian:Professional basketball has expanded competitively around the world. When a country like South Sudan, participating in its first Olympics, plays the United States in the practice round (as well as in the second half of its first group game), that says a lot about the evolution of the game. Team USA has been led by the NBA since 1996, when Duke’s Christian Laettner was the last college player on the team. A few NBA players have represented their birth country at the Olympics. Manu Ginobili led Argentina to gold in 2004. However, Kevin Durant is the current U.S. superstar and the all-time leader in points in Olympic competition (494).

An All-NBA team (from 1992 onwards) has taken home gold in every game except the 2004 game. That team had a roster that was not exactly stellar. Remarkably, its coach, Larry Brown, had just won an NBA championship with the Detroit Pistons. Brown, now 83, is the only Coach of history who has won championships at both levels, the other title at Kansas in 1988. He was criticized, however, for that 2004 debacle in Athens, Greece. I still don’t follow the NBA season (yawn) and would rather watch the college stars. These days, I’d take some of the UConn players and their coach, Dan Hurley, over Purdue’s Zach Edey and keep Durant. Maybe that’s fantasy now. Could they even keep it even?

Larry Cheek, Dublin

For Larry:One of the results of this year’s Olympics has been a new discussion. At least for a while, the comparison between the Dream Team and the 2024 team has replaced the LeBron vs. Jordan discussion, with great arguments on both sides. Maybe it’s time for Mr. Oller or Mr. Arace to weigh in on the matter.

About college football

For BrianA century ago, the intercollegiate Southern Conference was growing to 23 schools but would soon break up, with some becoming the SEC and others eventually the ACC. The SIAC also had 32 smaller schools before it was deemed cumbersome and broke up. Three decades ago, the WAC decided to expand dramatically to 16 before those older WAC schools had second thoughts and left their own league to form the Mountain West Conference.

I wonder how today’s adjustments will play out, especially for Stanford and California, who travel so often to the Eastern Time Zone. And not just their football teams. And imagine being the ones driving their equipment trucks across the country. With Stanford playing football at Syracuse and Clemson in back-to-back weeks, that truck won’t even bother trying to get back to California that week.

Dennis Singleton, Dayton

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