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Salon.com
August 30, 2002
Allen Barra |
Strike 4 The baseball deal will either make the game worse for fans or it'll be a sham that won't hold salaries down. The owners came close to wrecking the season for this?   |
Sports Illustrated
September 17, 2002
Tim Layden |
Sizing up Pat Ewing's legacy will be his Georgetown days. |
Sports Central
June 7, 2005
Danny Sternfield |
The Secret Lost Labor Letters As the NHL lockout drags on ... and on ... and on, somewhere out there are tens of fans longing for hockey. |
Sports Illustrated
September 26, 2000
John Walters |
Making sense of NBC's tumbling Olympic ratings Question: Could NBC's ratings for the Olympics be any worse? Answer: Only if Dennis Miller were added to the broadcast team... |
Sports Central
July 11, 2011
Bill Hazell |
Locked Out Twice? The NFL labor dispute is on the edge of being resolved, but the NBA lockout has just started and thus, they are nowhere near an agreement. |
Sports Illustrated
July 30, 2003
Frank Deford |
King Hut Pro football rules in America; here's why |
Sports Illustrated
June 6, 2000
Phil Taylor |
Peace Knick Maybe history will be kinder to Patrick Ewing than fate has been. Maybe a decade from now, when he has been out of the game long enough for us to gain perspective, he will be remembered for being one of the elite centers of his generation... |
Salon.com
October 31, 2000
Allen Barra |
The "transition" game The NBA is suffering, not because it misses Michael Jordan, but because there are too many teenage millionaires who can't shoot... |
Salon.com
October 31, 2001
Allen Barra |
Why no one's going to watch the World Series this year Hint: It has nothing to do with the Yankees (who are going to win again)... |
Sports Illustrated
January 24, 2002
Frank Deford |
This Bud's for who? The controversies continue for baseball's commissioner... |
Sports Illustrated
June 6, 2001
Frank Deford |
Athletics 101 A change in eligibility rules is long overdue if we want to encourage talented athletes to stay in school... |
Sports Illustrated
October 9, 2002
Frank Deford |
Reality bites Do NFL fans favor fantasy games over real action? |
Sports Illustrated
November 15, 2000
Frank Deford |
NBA recount Reversal of fortune harms league's image... |
Sports Central
January 25, 2006
Diane M. Grassi |
Winter Olympics Athletes Face Double Standard Big media and corporate sponsorship of sporting events in the US have become as big a story these days as the sports and athletes they themselves sponsor, with nary an opportunity missed by advertisers and networks alike to promote themselves. |
Salon.com
June 20, 2000
Eric Boehlert |
NBA in disarray Come back, Mr. Jordan: The NBA Finals are in danger of going down as the lowest-rated playoffs since 1981, while couch potatoes turn off college games, too. What's wrong with hoops? |
Sports Illustrated
September 18, 2002
Jack McCallum |
What more do Ew want? Don't undervalue the big man because he never won a title. |
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. |
Sports Central
May 19, 2010
Brad Oremland |
Bud Selig Gets it Wrong Again Major League Baseball's Bud Selig has long been the most tone-deaf commissioner in major North American sports (sorry, Gary Bettman). |
Salon.com
April 24, 2002
Allen Barra |
The corporate sports rip-off Why are taxpayers still subsidizing professional football and basketball? |
Salon.com
January 3, 2001
Allen Barra |
Marvin Miller, Hall of Famer The union founder made ballplayers unimaginably rich. Will they ever have the guts to demand that he be enshrined in Cooperstown?... Also, why do people complain that there are too many college bowl games? |
AskMen.com
June 26, 2002
Mark Simmons |
Why Did NBC Drop The NBA? With ABC and ESPN picking up the torch from NBC for the rights to broadcast NBA games, analysts are asking whether the Peacock Network made the right decision by letting the NBA go. |
Salon.com
June 30, 2000
Allen Barra |
Any given Monday night Dennis Miller won't pull the NFL out of its TV doldrums. Here are seven ideas that will. |
Sports Central
April 3, 2005
Mike Round |
Baseball Returns After a Tumultuous Winter It hasn't been a great winter for sports in general, but only baseball has drawn the wrath of Congress. So who's to blame for this steroid mess, and how does the sport repair the damage? By playing the games and letting the actual drama of the season take precedent. |
Sports Illustrated
April 2, 2002
Tom Verducci |
Striking Out Bud Selig wants you to be reassured. The baseball commissioner announced last week that the owners will not lock out the players this season... |
Sports Central
August 30, 2011
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Presumes Labor Peace in Approaching Offseason As we enter the final weeks of the 2011 Major League Baseball season, unlike other impending offseasons in recent years, this will be of the collective bargaining kind. |
Sports Central
February 2, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
Selig's Legacy, For Better and For Worse Part of the problem is that, say what you will of the man one way or the other, Selig really is a baseball fan when all is said and done. |
Sports Illustrated
January 10, 2001
Frank Deford |
The hot stove league Once upon a time there was an offseason. Super Bowl? NFL Playoffs? The NBA? Hard to imagine today, but for much of the 20th century, perhaps as late as into the 1960s, the sports calendar effectively ended with the New Year's Day bowl games... |
Sports Illustrated
December 19, 2000
Albert Kim & Mark Mravic |
Here are the holiday gifts that need to be given Sports figures are so hard to shop for. After all, how many sweaters, ties and multiyear contract extensions does one athlete need? Fear not: We've taken it upon ourselves to play Santa to the sports world. Here's our list... |
Sports Central
October 25, 2010
Joshua Duffy |
Baseball No Longer Rules October After more than century of dominance in the american sporting marketplace, baseball is no longer king. |
Sports Central
June 9, 2006
Bill Hazell |
NBA on ABC Can't Live Up to Predecessors Quite frankly, the game just doesn't look as good on TV anymore. There are a number of reasons for this -- some noticeable, others subtle. |
Sports Central
January 4, 2012
Louie Centanni |
Why the 66-Game NBA Season Should Stay Between playing more frequently, forcing stars to show effort nightly, and reintroducing the concept of team basketball, the 66-game NBA season seems to be a great experiment - one that should become the norm for years to come. |
AskMen.com
February 5, 2003
Mark Simmons |
Why The NFL Is So Fantastic As the NFL powers into the 21st century, it is head and shoulders above all other professional sports circuits. It is firing on all cylinders; both in terms of financial metrics and public relations goodwill. |
Salon.com
June 20, 2002
Allen Barra |
Marvin Miller: Don't trust baseball's drug-testing proposal The former head of the Baseball Players Association says that the owners have no reason to crack down on steroid use -- so the commissioner's random-test proposal may just be moral grandstanding. |
Sports Central
July 24, 2006
Diane M. Grassi |
Bringing New Meaning to Free Trade America's national pastime continues to rake in record high revenues, yet it continues to remain deaf to concerns about the manufacture of equipment and uniforms and unfair labor practices in the third world. |
Sports Illustrated
August 29, 2000
Ian Thomsen |
Inside the NBA After failing to dump their veteran center, can the Knicks fly with a broken Ewing? |
Sports Central
July 21, 2011
Jonathan Lowe |
NBA Lockout: The Double-Edged Sword The heat across the Upper Midwest these last couple of days couldn't be any more different than the mood in the world of the NBA. |
Salon.com
January 10, 2001
Allen Barra |
"You $%#@!" From Anna Kournikova and paying college athletes to Alex Rodriguez and old Olympic grudges: The readers write... |
Sports Central
June 20, 2007
Joe Boesch |
Giambi Shouldn't Be the MLB Scapegoat But he may have opened his mouth too much this time on the issue of steroids. |
Sports Central
September 8, 2006
Diane M. Grassi |
Globalization Defeating the American Athlete The increase of insourcing foreign players in the U.S. may result in sacrificing the best American athletes. |
Sports Central
April 5, 2007
Scott Shepherd |
Baseball's Back, and Not a Second Too Late Here's a look at some of the things that make baseball great. |
Sports Central
April 18, 2005
Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Mondays: Jermaine's Disdain Because the majority of NBA players are African-American, any rule the league adapts, including an age limit, will inherently affect more black people than white, a fact that has nothing to do with race. |
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. |
Salon.com
June 23, 2000
Gary Kamiya |
It's Miller time! In a weird, yet slick, move to boost ratings saggier than Howard Cosell's rug, "Monday Night Football" plays the smart-aleck card. |
Salon.com
April 18, 2001
Allen Barra |
Air ball Michael Jordan's rumored return to the court sounds like a great idea for the NBA. It isn't... |
AskMen.com
January 8, 2001
Jimmy Shapiro |
Top 50 Sports Stories Of 2000 Here's one man's opinion of the top 50 stories of 2000, in order of importance. Let's hope this year is as eventful... |
Sports Central
February 2, 2005
Tom Kosinski |
Sports Integrity, Where is It? I first thought maybe this was like a parody of professional wrestling, and the MLB was actually encouraging more players to start using steroids. |
Sports Illustrated
March 21, 2001 |
Rough times ahead? Volatile economy could have major impact on sports |
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. |
Sports Illustrated
May 8, 2001
Michael Bamberger |
Downsize This! Baseball may have blundered into its best idea in years: contraction... |
Sports Illustrated
December 18, 2002
Tom Verducci |
Time to Fess Up If Pete Rose hopes to be reinstated, he must admit he bet on his sport. |
