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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. >> that's 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 autocrats, too, maybe not as bad as putin. look at fifa. seth bladder never invaded crimea but, man, ...

Team, but it can't possibly hope to fill that stadium. but that's the ransom demanded by fifa, which is widely and probably correctly viewed as a corrupt racket. it's 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. >> i'm sorry to say, and maybe i look a bit arrogant, but that's something we're not negotiating. there mus...

Forest, the author of "the big fix: the hunt for match fixers bringing down soccer." that's really a fantastic figure that he is pointing out there about the tax-free gift that's being given to fifa to have the world cup in brazil. amazing. so are they really this ominous group that people don't know about? >> they are. you know about it if you're 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 is beholden to no one, to no government, and certainly not to its constituency, its fans. >> hey,...

Seth bladder i know is apologizing to england and mexico for the blown calls in this weekend's 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 don't know if you heard this. brazil seems very good at soccer and they're passionate. brazil will meet the netherlands. basketball now, two days into the most anticipated free agency period in nba history, we're getting word th...

-- they didn't take much convincing, let's 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 it's happened. that some accountability has been brought to the organization. that's the thing that everybody around the world, around the world tonight and all day, people going, i can't believe they did it, they've arrested these people? >> it's become a cliche over the last two decades about fifa being corrupt. it's an eye role. people in the international olympic committee look at f...