15 minutes. Professor waugh this is for my lecture baseball becomes professional. It wasnt too long ago that , if youre controversial can can imagine. Sports and consumerism wasnt important enough. It would have raised eyebrows. Sports, Department Stores buying stuff, will not anymore. Sports and consumer culture our research and written about, made during like every other topic by historians. Now theyre even professors of sports history. Why . Because professors have found that we cannot ignore sports. Why . Because it represents money and big our, big big power, big business. Its also cultural and emotional. There is this tension between professionalism, big business, and the emotional ties that is exemplified by this letter, written by a baseball fan and published in a newspaper sports section. Let me read a quote. Care modern ballplayers about nothing but money. They dont care about their team , or their city, with their fans. In my day, things were different. That sounds familiar.
The class is about an hour and 15 minutes. Professor waugh good morning ucla students. Good to see you for my lecture baseball becomes professional. It wasnt too long ago that these subjects were controversial, if you can can imagine. Sports and consumerism, they werent important enough. It would have raised eyebrows. Like i am raising my eyebrows now. Sports, Department Stores buying stuff, will not anymore. Sports and consumer culture our research and written about, made boring like every other topic by historians. Now theyre even professors of sports history. Why . Because professors have found that we cannot ignore sports. Why . Because it represents money and big power, big business. We cant ignore sports for another reason. Its also cultural and emotional. There is this tension between professionalism, big business, and the emotional tie that is exemplified by this letter, written by a baseball fan and published in a newspaper sports section. Let me read a quote. These modern bal
Good afternoon. Borisjohnson has been defending the latest restrictions aimed at tackling the rising number of coronavirus infections. As some critics warned that not enough was being done to help business as furlogh comes to an end. The labour leader accused him of being out of touch. Sir keir starmer said the Prime Minister had lost control of testing and that, he said, was a major reason he is losing control of the virus. It followed the announcement of tighter restrictions in all four uk nations. With stricter measures in scotland and Northern Ireland where households are not allowed to mix. The Prime Minister warned the changes could last up to six months. In england, people are being told to work from home if they can. Pubs, restaurants and other hospitality venues will have to close by 10pm from tomorrow night. The number of people allowed at weddings has been halved to 15 from monday. Meanwhile, the fines for breaking the rules will also increase to £200 on the first offence.
Children and their upstairs asleep you could still just children and their upstairs asleep you could stilljust have two people over, that is in england. Time for a look at the weather. The weather for everyone to date turning much cooler than yesterday and a real change in fortunes. Yesterday we had sunshine in east anglia and temperatures of 26 but todayis anglia and temperatures of 26 but today is cloudy and wet. That covers a good part of england and wales. Brighter across scotland and Northern Ireland. Glorious this morning across parts of scotland, very still and sunny conditions. Through the rest of the date we have this band of rain pushing east across england. Turning increasingly heavy and persistent across eastern areas as we go through the afternoon. We could see showers for Northern Ireland and South West England and perhaps another area of rain developing across the midlands and running into east anglia for a time. Never really clearing away and also turning wendy this eve
Its theirs. Of course, its very important that the young people should be concerned about this and they are, in increasing numbers. Its extraordinarily touching and i feel privileged that they should listen to what an old bloke like me is talking about. Sir David Attenborough talking to louise minchin. Time for a look at the weather. Heres susan powell. Good afternoon. A lot of cloud to the north of the uk at the moment, pretty grey skies across yorkshire, the cloud coming down low over the hills, bringing a bit of drizzle. It isa hills, bringing a bit of drizzle. It is a very different story either side of the weather front of that stretches the uk. Further east, into the south east of england, some sunshine through the morning and there should be more of that to come this afternoon as this band of cloud pulls off into the continent. This line here is our weatherfront stretching from scotland currently, into wales in the south west of england and that is slowly progressing eastwards f