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Salon.com July 29, 2002 Keith Olbermann |
A strike against the baseball strike? The players of one small-market team have voted against authorizing a strike deadline. |
AskMen.com Lewis Helfand |
Strikes & Lockouts In Professional Sports Everything from ticket sales to stadium parking takes a significant hit when games are canceled. The strikes and lockouts listed below show just how much professional athletes, teams, and even leagues stand to lose when faced with a work stoppage. |
Sports Central July 21, 2009 Corrie Trouw |
The American Premier League While a remarkable 18 teams were within five games of a playoff spot on Monday morning, such parity is more of a Bud Selig parlor trick than an exhibition of competitive balance. |
InternetNews February 15, 2005 Tim Gray |
MLB Acquires Tickets.com Major League Baseball agrees to purchase the ticket seller to make the ticket-buying process easier for fans. |
AskMen.com September 30, 2012 Joffrey Lupul |
NHL Lockout 2012 The thing that is frustrating for us as players is this is the third time (second of my career) the players have been locked out by Gary Bettman and the owners. |
Sports Illustrated July 26, 2000 Frank Deford |
Incompetent owners ruining baseball Do you ever want to, as I do now, just give up on baseball? I don't mean on the game, but on the way it is run -- or isn't run. It's just the same old issues, over and over, that never get resolved... |
BusinessWeek February 10, 2011 |
Hard Choices: The NHL's Gary Bettman As the National Football League begins labor negotiations, the National Hockey League commissioner recalls his last lockout |
Sports Illustrated March 28, 2001 Frank Deford |
Twilight Zone Umpires decide to follow the rules regarding strike zone... |
The Motley Fool September 26, 2007 Rich Duprey |
GM and Union Kiss and Make Up A quick agreement is hammered out, ending the labor union's two-day strike. |
Salon.com July 25, 2002 Keith Olbermann |
How to remember Sept. 11 -- and how not to Salon's new columnist looks at what the upcoming baseball strike and "Sex & the City" tell us about the looming one-year anniversary. |
Sports Illustrated August 13, 2002 Mark Beech |
Replacement Therapy Baseball players who crossed the picket line in 1995 are still searching for acceptance. |
The Motley Fool January 30, 2009 Rich Smith |
Boeing Busts the Union Boeing CEO Jim McNerney announced yesterday that the company's dire financial straits necessitate laying off 10,000 Boeing workers. Those who lose their jobs will almost certainly blame the machinists union for their fate. |
Sports Central August 13, 2012 Paul Foeller |
Centralized Power Only three players in the National League rank in the top 10 of all three triple crown categories. All of them play in the National League Central. Only one division has three of the top five in wins and in saves -- the National League Central. |
The Motley Fool April 22, 2004 Mark Mahorney |
Strikes Loom Over SBC A strike at SBC Communications could send customers and investors scrambling for the exits. |
Salon.com August 22, 2001 Allen Barra |
Stop bad-mouthing baseball Sentimental sports columnists moan about its demise, even though the facts don't support their arguments... |
Sports Central August 2, 2007 Scott Shepherd |
MLB Trade Deadline: Much Ado About Nothing The trade deadline is not nearly the event that they want you to believe it is. |
Sports Central November 14, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
The Wrong Expansion For Baseball MLB thinks the way to solve baseball's image and primacy problems is to expand the postseason. |
Salon.com June 16, 2000 Allen Barra |
Spread the wealth The solution to baseball's revenue-sharing "problem" is for the teams to share the revenue. |
The Motley Fool September 4, 2008 Rich Smith |
Boeing Should Let the Union Walk When all's said and done, a strike could actually work out to Boeing's advantage. |
AskMen.com Simon Sinek |
Are You Willing To Strike Out?: Simon Sinek It's perfectly fine to be a good, solid player who doesn't go down swinging that often, but it also means you won't hit that many home runs. |
Sports Illustrated July 24, 2002 Frank Deford |
The boors of summer It's hard to take either side in baseball's labor battle. |
Sports Central April 15, 2013 Adam Russell |
MLB Should Consolidate the Leagues Could there ever be the possibility of MLB proposing a unified organization with consistent rules and a more objective schedule? If enough fans jump on the bandwagon, it most certainly could be possible. |
Salon.com August 29, 2002 Keith Olbermann |
Olbermann Extra Optimism flags as hard-line baseball owners refuse to compromise on a key issue. |
Sports Central September 24, 2007 Phil Backert |
MLB Playoff Chase Down to Final Stretch The last week of the season in Major League Baseball could not be more exciting for fans as the hunt for October hits the final stretch run. |
DailyCandy August 31, 2004 |
American Beauty Nearly 76 million eligible Americans didn't vote in 2000. Decisions are made by the people who show up, and time's running out to register to vote. |
The Motley Fool December 21, 2005 Brian Gorman |
The Strike That Stole Christmas? The New York transportation strike could actually be a positive for big retailers, as long as it doesn't drag on. |
Sports Central September 26, 2011 Paul Foeller |
Kings of the Hill The Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees have been the unquestioned leaders of their respective leagues some time now. |
Sports Central June 24, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
All-Star Vote Broken? Here's a Repair My American League ballot went as follows, and these players remained the WAR leaders at their positions as of Friday morning. |
Sports Central September 2, 2010 Corrie Trouw |
The Bottom Line of Bottoming Out The willingest spenders like the Yankees and Red Sox receive mixed messages from their sports: Try to win as much as you can, but you better not use all of your resources to do it. |
The Motley Fool June 10, 2010 Wade Roush |
Quick Hit Cracks Into EA's NFL Market In the run-up to next week's giant E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles, Quick Hit is announcing today that it has struck a multi-year deal with the NFL. |
Wired October 2009 Drake Bennett |
Stefan Szymanski and Stephen Ross: Bust Up Big League Sports In the current system, major league team owners are rewarded for mediocrity. How can we demand better? Make teams compete for a spot in the majors. |
Sports Central July 9, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
No Royals v. NL After All, But... The genuinely bad news: the all-star voting is still broken and still in need of fixing. (Er, repairing). |
Sports Central November 25, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
The Fan Who Transformed the Union As long as Michael Weiner sat in the Major League Baseball Players Association's top seat, the most grievous issue wouldn't be grievous for very long, and that going to war rather than building a peace would be a fool's errand. |
Salon.com May 16, 2002 King Kaufman |
A baseball strike in August? The workers demand buccaneer capitalism! The owners insist on socialism! As a strike looms, baseball negotiations offer a bizarro-world version of reality... |
Sports Central June 18, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
Cardinal Sinners? Royal Stuffers? If the St. Louis Cardinals' front office isn't facing an investigation into whether they hacked into the Houston Astros' internal data networks, Kansas City fans are gleefully stuffing online all-star ballot boxes in favor of the Royals. |
Sports Central August 15, 2011 Matt Thomas |
Wait Till Next Year? No, Wait Till June! Major League Baseball has on the table a proposed rule change that would result in an increase in the number of playoff teams from eight to 10. |
Sports Central August 16, 2004 David Zirin |
The MLB Strike: 25 Years in the Making Ask any sports fan their low point of the last decade and it would probably involve the 1994 baseball season, the year a player's strike/lockout ended a scintillating campaign and caused the first ever cancellation of the World Series. |
Sports Central August 3, 2007 Joe Boesch |
The MLB Connection in Israel Was bringing the game of baseball to Israel designed to expand the game -- or create a distract from some of Major League Baseball's problems? |
Wild West June 2007 Hart & Lalire |
Baseball in the West Our national pastime developed in the eastern United States, but it spread across the Mississippi far sooner than you might think. |
Sports Central October 19, 2011 Vito Curcuru |
How the Players Can Win the NBA Lockout The NBA players need to leverage their talent to win the lockout. |
BusinessWeek June 3, 2010 Jesse Westbrook |
The SEC's BlackBerry Compromise The agency will give employees BlackBerrys -- but won't demand that they keep them on weekends or after hours |
CIO October 1, 2001 Jon Surmacz |
A Uniform Decision Major League Baseball is online. How it got there is a lesson in cooperation and conformity. How the Internet encouraged baseball teams to work together. Why MLB.com used a common template for many websites. How MLB.com hopes to cash in... |
Reason April 2002 Mike Lynch |
Slow Learners In December a Washington state Superior Court judge schooled the Washington Education Association), the state's largest teachers union, on the nuances of labor law, handing it a $770,000 bill for the lesson... |
Fast Company September 14, 2011 Emma Haak |
Baseball By The Billions (Of Dollars) How do you assemble a great American pastime? With bats, balls, beer -- and a pro league that nets $6.1 billion in revenue. As the World Series looms, we break down what's driving Baseball Inc. |
Sports Central June 17, 2013 Ross Lancaster |
The Dizzying Coaching Carousel The two teams that are still playing as the calendar clicks over to the latter half of June, offer a model of smart, consistent management and leadership in coaching for success. |
Sports Central June 17, 2011 Andrew Jones |
How to Realign Major League Baseball Rumors have been floating around about the potential for MLB to realign into a system with two 15-team leagues and no divisions. |
The Motley Fool July 12, 2004 Nathan Slaughter |
Bank of America to Play Ball It becomes the official bank of Major League Baseball and will pitch to other leagues, too. |
Fast Company Lydia Dishman |
Gawker Staff Votes To Unionize In Groundbreaking Move For New Media Call it an historic moment for labor unions: Gawker Media has become the first online-only media outlet to organize. |
The Motley Fool July 28, 2011 |
Southern Union Company Earnings Preview Southern Union Company will unveil its latest earnings on Monday, August 1. |
BusinessWeek January 27, 2011 Paul Wachter et al. |
Super Bowl XLV: The NFL's Last Game? A labor dispute between the National Football League and its players is threatening to bleed billions in revenue - and possibly cancel the 2011-12 season. |