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He put his country into terrible debt and invaded crimea. putin and now the economy in russia is terrible so putin for spending all that money, smiles aside, in a time and place in his nation that needs so many other things. $51 billion, the most ever spent on an olympic games. so vladimir putin is also one of my losers for the year. >> thats certainly a unique one in the sports department for sure. mike, you give thumbs down to team commissioner and organization as well. >> yes. i chose some au...

Team, but it cant possibly hope to fill that stadium. but thats the ransom demanded by fifa, which is widely and probably correctly viewed as a corrupt racket. its run by seth bladder, an organization run awash in bribery. fifa runs rough shod over the countries that host the world cup, exempting itself from taxes and changing laws it does not like. >> fifa seems anxious to protect budweiser from a law designed to protect people. which is why they went to brazil with a simple message. >> im sorr...

Forest, the author of "the big fix: the hunt for match fixers bringing down soccer." thats really a fantastic figure that he is pointing out there about the tax-free gift thats being given to fifa to have the world cup in brazil. amazing. so are they really this ominous group that people dont know about? >> they are. you know about it if youre a fan of the game, especially in europe and asia and elsewhere, outside of the united states, where the game is number one. fifa is an organization that i...

Seth bladder i know is apologizing to england and mexico for the blown calls in this weekends world cup matches. both teams went on to lose after the big referee mistakes. he also says people will talk about adding instant replay finally when the board meets next monday. stay out of this, chris. back on the field, brazil had no problem against chile. brazil won 3-0. i dont know if you heard this. brazil seems very good at soccer and theyre passionate. brazil will meet the netherlands. basketball...

-- they didnt take much convincing, lets put it that way. >> the reporter will join me in a moment. a great book, dance with the devil. the big surprise here is not the allegations embedded. the shock is that its happened. that some accountability has been brought to the organization. thats the thing that everybody around the world, around the world tonight and all day, people going, i cant believe they did it, theyve arrested these people? >> its become a cliche over the last two decades about ...

Seth bladder is so identified with this corruption. this was the headline of the new york times today. fifa officials arrested on corruption charges, seth bladder isnt among them. it had to be made clear. the surprise to me is two things, the first is that fifa, any multibillion dollar global corporation is being held to account for their corruption. that in and of itself is a shocker, something that drops the jaw. the second part i think we need to look at is that they were able to keep this so...