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Lewis Helfand |
Pro Sports Contract Violations In contracts, as in many things in life, guaranteed does not always mean guaranteed. Players have seen their contracts revoked -- sometimes to their benefit and sometimes to a loss in personal wealth of millions.   |
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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. |
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Phil Helm |
Top 10: Suspensions In Sports In the world of sports, if you break the rules, you get suspended -- and athletes are very public examples of this. Especially these ten. |
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Steve Seepersaud |
How Athletes Are Cultivated How do aspiring sports stars hone their talents so they're ready for the big time and the dollars that are up for grabs? How much money is involved in cultivating talent? |
Sports Central
March 8, 2006
Isaac Miller |
NBA Contracts: Guaranteed to Fail Free agents sign six- and seven-year deals for millions of guaranteed dollars. Then they put it into cruise control and collect their loot. |
Sports Central
February 14, 2011
Vito Curcuru |
Why the NBA Has the Best All-Star Game The NBA All-Star Game has started to separate itself as the best event of its kind among the four major sports. |
Fast Company
November 2010
Patrick J. Sauer |
NBA Effectively Utilizes Social Media to Connect With Fans How the NBA has shot past its rivals in connecting with fans via social media. |
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
June 25, 2005
Josh Frank |
Remarketing an Unremarkable League NBA commissioner David Stern made a comment recently that makes me fear for the future of the league. |
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... |
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. |
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. |
Sports Central
January 27, 2015
Brad Oremland |
NFL State of the Union The state of the NFL is strong, of course. It's the most popular sports league in North America, and it will remain so for the foreseeable future. But even a strong league has areas for improvement. |
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Steve Seepersaud |
Most Profitable Sports Leagues The top five richest pro sports leagues. |
Sports Central
November 10, 2008
Scott Shepherd |
In the Rotation: NBA Week 2 If the NBA season was "off and running" last week, it hit "full stride" on Wednesday. |
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. |
Sports Central
December 8, 2007
Greg Wyshynski |
Did David Stern Just Ruin Basketball? David Stern's logic for dismissing the Maverick's protest brings the value of officiating in earlier quarters to question. |
Sports Central
September 14, 2009
Scott Shepherd |
The NBA's Real Officiating Problem For months now, the dirty little secret around the NBA is that the league is preparing for what could be a lengthy lockout of the NBA's referees. |
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Steve Seepersaud |
The Business Of Officiating Athletes aren't the only people who dream of making it to the big leagues. In fact, some people aspire to take to the fields of the MLB and the NFL in a different type of uniform. |
AskMen.com
June 23, 2004
Lewis Helfand |
Pensions In Pro Sports Comparing the pensions of the major professional sports leagues. |
Sports Central
November 20, 2004
Marc James |
Throwdown in Motown Couldn't the NBA come up with a better way to attract fans than this? |
BusinessWeek
November 1, 2004
Mark Hyman |
An Entire Season in the Penalty Box? As incredible as it seems for a league that sells 90% of available tickets and last season generated revenues of $2.1 billion, the National Hockey League may sit this season out. Who blinks first in negotiations between the owners and the union will depend on willpower and finances. |
Sports Central
March 6, 2004
Doug Graham |
NBA Sends a Message to Refs The NBA gets tough of their referees. |
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. |
Sports Central
November 24, 2004
Doug Graham |
A Stern Reaction to the Basketbrawl Did the punishment fit the crime? Hardly. But it certainly fit the backlash. |
Sports Illustrated
April 4, 2000
Jackie MacMullan |
Inside the NBA NBA execs say they plan a minor league for 2001, but they're suspiciously vague about it |
Salon.com
February 14, 2001
Allen Barra |
For God's sake, save the children! The NBA is worrying publicly about "kids" forsaking their schooling to turn pro, but its real problem is that the NCAA is no longer presenting it with famous rookies for free... |
Sports Central
July 30, 2005
Greg Wyshynski |
The NHL's Unanswered Questions Some of the NHL's rules changes for the upcoming season are, admittedly, good ones; some are admittedly bad. Others, well, have me just confused. |
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
March 5, 2003
Ian Thomsen |
Inside the NBA: Older, but Not Wiser A plan to push teens toward college by raising the minimum age could be a setback to future stars. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
June 1, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Are You Ready for Some More Football? The country isn't ready for another football league. If there's a way to out-NFL the NFL at its own game, don't you think someone would have come up with the better mousetrap by now? |
Sports Central
July 13, 2009
Scott Shepherd |
NBA Free Agency Tweets There was no shortage of activity around the NBA this week as teams were finally able to officially sign free agents after the one week courtship period that began on July 1st. |
CFO
September 1, 2004
Joseph McCafferty |
Hockey Fight A brawl over accounting -- not a salary cap -- could give the National Hockey League a black eye. But worse, will it cancel the 2004-2005 season? |
Sports Illustrated
January 12, 2001 |
Who's 'The Man' in L.A.? The clear and obvious choice is Shaquille O'Neal |
Sports Central
August 1, 2008
Jeffrey Boswell |
Sports Q&A: WNBA Fighting: Rumble Pie Last week's WNBA brawl between the Detroit Shock and Los Angeles Sparks was a black eye for women's sports. For a ratings-starved league, is this just what the WNBA needed to boost ratings? |
Sports Central
January 29, 2005
Vincent Musco |
Talent's Broad Shoulders: The Dark Axiom Now, in a seemingly oxymoronic NBA development from Friday's wire, the Eastern Conference-leading Miami Heat have signed oft-troubled but surely-talented Qyntel Woods. |
BusinessWeek
November 1, 2004
Jay Greene |
How This Diehard Fan Would Fix Hockey The sad truth of the lockout is that for the vast majority of American sports enthusiasts, it doesn't much matter. The National Hockey League may well lose the entire 2004-05 season, and most sports fans in this country won't even notice. |
Sports Central
January 12, 2009
Scott Shepherd |
In the Rotation: NBA Week 11 After getting off to a somewhat quiet start to the season around the league, the injury bug has bitten and bitten hard recently. |
Sports Central
January 2, 2012
Ross Lancaster |
The Evolution of an NBA Fan Despite all the warts and sheer incompetency associated with upper levels of NBA leadership, many factors on the court have converged to make the regular season one worth watching, even if you normally ignore much of the period until the playoffs. |
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 Central
July 28, 2007
Greg Wyshynski |
NBA Refs Crooked? You Bet! Tim Donaghy might be an "isolated criminal," but his desire to call the game according to how he'd like to see it play out is far from an isolated behavior in the NBA or any other professional league. |
Sports Illustrated
August 30, 2001
Paul Zimmerman |
Making up for lost dime NFL Referees Association's demands based on past, present and future... |
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Steve Seepersaud |
The Business of Sports Scheduling Here is a look at how the complex task of scheduling is accomplished and how much money is at stake. |
Sports Central
October 5, 2009
Scott Shepherd |
82 Things to Watch For This NBA Season (Pt. 1) Bold predictions and a break down for where every team stands heading into the upcoming NBA season. |
Sports Central
August 19, 2005
Eric Williams |
The Never-Ending NBA Season The NBA summer leagues provide us with the ultimate NBA reality drama: recent NBA draft picks and NBA-wannabees trying to impress fans and coaches while fighting for a job in the NBA. |
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... |
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. |
Sports Central
August 20, 2007
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Suffers No Lack of Hypocrisy Major League Baseball fans over the past several years have not only been witness to performances taking place on MLB baseball diamonds across America, but have also been privy to after-the-fact cover-ups, collusion, denials, and authoritarian control of their National Pastime. |
Sports Central
December 28, 2009
Scott Shepherd |
NBA Grinches Ruin Christmas Kobe vs. LeBron on Christmas Day should have been the story of the week in the NBA, but instead, here's a list of the Grinches that stole the Christmas Headlines in the NBA. |
