NBC, a unit of General Electric, for one had proclaimed the NFL too dear and it had abandoned the league, dropping Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association, too.
It's not the first time Putin's allies (or his values, for that matter) have proclaimed his unchallenged masculinity.
FOR decades, Heineken has proclaimed in a popular British campaign that it "refreshes the parts other beers cannot reach".
7.29pm GMT At TNR, Alec MacGillis has mean words for pundits who have proclaimed last night's surprisingly narrow Virginia gubernatorial results to be terrible news for Obamacare.
The Army, which for the last two years has proclaimed it can make you "Army strong," is adding a second theme to its campaign, "Strength like no other".
But voter desire for continuity of popular social welfare "missions" and a strong sympathy vote in the wake of Chávez funeral helped to carry the day for Maduro, who has proclaimed himself the "son" of the former president.
As a candidate for president, Reagan had proclaimed that he was "pledged to a Social Security program that will reassure these senior citizens of ours they're going to continue to get their money". By then, Social Security had become a program that politicians couldn't afford to oppose and, indeed, that most Americans supported.
For decades, youth has proclaimed its superiority, from the counterculture of the 1960's that trusted no one over 30 to the 1990's children of the Internet who scorned their elders for not embracing the brave new world of technology.
"For decades, Stone has proclaimed himself a political genius, a high-powered trickster merrily owning the libs, a sort of Republican Banksy," explained the host of "Full Frontal".
