1.   -- Competition for the entertainment dollar is tough in a metropolitan area that has pro football, basketball and baseball.

2.   But cities can locate a stadium downtown or in blighted areas to redirect those entertainment dollars toward historically depressed locations, Rosentraub said.

3.   But critics temper those studies by arguing that consumers are simply shifting their entertainment dollars from one activity to another when a new game comes to town.

4.   But only if they choose to believe Ravitch when he says that professional sports cannot compete effectively for the entertainment dollar without some sort of governor on player salaries.

5.   Cowboys owner Jerry Jones recognizes the highly competitive nature of the entertainment dollar in professional sports today.

6.   Facility managers know the way to break into the black after eight-digit investments is to tap the vast corporate entertainment dollars.

7.   Experts agree that casinos do little economic good if all they do is change the address where local residents spend their entertainment dollars.

8.   For one thing, he said, a stadium winds up taking entertainment dollars that had been going to locally owned bowling alleys, restaurants and movie theaters.

9.   How has the movie business kept growing at a time of spiraling costs and brutal competition for entertainment dollars?

10.   In fact, a definitive study by Robert Baade, an economist at Lake Forest College in Illinois, has shown that entertainment dollars are relatively fixed.