Another NHL lockout: An alternative view

Sport has always been a matter of deep social significance.  In contemporary society there are few individuals who do not, directly or indirectly, encounter elements of sport in their daily social lives.  Some may be actively involved as participants in some kind of sporting activity.  Others may be spectators at sporting events or consume sport via the mass media.  Some may volunteer as coaches, referees, or executive members of a sporting organization.  Of course, there is also a segment of the population that is not particularly interested in sport.  However, even those individuals find that sport in some way is a part of their lives, through such regular occurrences as sporting news and sport-oriented conversation in family or work settings o