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Money ball

n 2012, US insurance giant AIG reportedly paid about $80 million to have its logo on the All Blacks jersey for five years. There was widespread condemnation. Words such as “prostitution” and “betrayal” were bandied about; AIG’s cash was labelled “dirty money”; the editorialised that the famous black jersey was “now just another playing strip”. In 2016, the arrangement was

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