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Salon.com
August 27, 2002
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So will they strike? Maybe, maybe not. But since baseball players and owners aren't even addressing the fundamental problem, we'll be asking the same question in a few years.   |
Salon.com
July 23, 2002
King Kaufman |
Taking baseball owners at their word If competitive balance is the main issue in the contract talks, why does their main proposal address payroll imbalance? |
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
December 20, 2000
Allen Barra |
The Alex Rodriguez FAQ Is he worth all that money? Will these giant contracts ever stop? Is salary inflation driving up ticket prices? Ruining baseball? (Short answers: Yes, no, no, no.) |
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. |
CFO
April 1, 2004
Tim Reason |
Squeeze Play Forget steroids. It's spending that has baseball in a bind. |
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. |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
Most Profitable Sports Teams Which five squads were the most profitable sports teams in major professional sports during the 2005-06 seasons? Hint: it's not the Yankees or the Red Sox. |
Sports Illustrated
May 1, 2002
Tom Verducci |
Economics 101 The mailbag overfloweth, and it's because I used the magic word last week: contraction. Frustration is obviously very high among fans, and the c-word inevitably spawns debate about the economics of the game... |
CFO
July 15, 2008
Kate O'Sullivan |
Going for the Gold Can a savvy finance strategy propel Women's Professional Soccer to post-Olympic glory? |
AskMen.com
November 29, 2000
Mark Simmons |
Pro Sports Salaries How can we explain the meteoric rise of players' salaries? |
AskMen.com
October 16, 2002
Mark Simmons |
Can We Make Baseball Profitable? At a time when most baseball franchises are crying poverty, how can MLB increase revenue for its franchises? |
Sports Central
December 25, 2008
Sean Crowe |
The Yankees Have Ruined My Christmas Someone needs to remind the Yankees that the United States is going through a pretty bad recession. |
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. |
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. |
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 Central
October 13, 2008
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB is No Longer Recession-Proof When Wall Street tanks, it not only has profound global ramifications, but impacts the local economies and the financing of MLB teams is entrenched in corporate sponsorships. |
Salon.com
July 21, 2000
Allen Barra |
Blue-ribbon nonsense The baseball owners' hand-picked committee, working from cooked books, has an absurd plan to fix the sport's finances. Why is the media taking it seriously? |
AskMen.com
November 28, 2001
Mark Simmons |
MLB: From Expansion To Contraction In this game of musical chairs, when the music stops, so will the game for two teams. So why has MLB decided to break with tradition? Will MLB contract for the first time in approximately 105 years? |
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. |
CFO
Tim Reason |
Diamonds in the Rough Minor league baseball is afraid of becoming a victim of its own success... |
Sports Central
March 27, 2011
Jess Coleman |
Can You Buy Wins in Baseball? Could the Yankees' unlimited sum of cash really result in an astonishing 27 World Championships? |
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... |
Entrepreneur
August 2010
Bruce Schoenfeld |
The Turnaround Artist Jim Pohlad inherited a failing team - the Minnesota Twins - on the verge of disappearing from baseball. What saved it? Thinking like a small business. |
Reason
May 2005
Matt Welch |
Subsidies and Lies Few corporate welfare tales are filled with as many tawdry lies as the return of professional baseball to the nation's capital. |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
Least Profitable Sports Teams A club will lose money when it overspends on high-priced players who don't deliver or because of flat-out mismanagement. Here are the five major pro sports teams that were the least profitable in 2005-06. |
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 Central
September 18, 2013
Andrew Jones |
Wild Card Drama The National League has a fraction of the excitement contained within the American League as we enter the final two weeks of the 2013 major league baseball season. September baseball is bound to be exciting. |
Fast Company
April 2009
Zachary Wilson |
HOK Imagines the Ballpark of the Future A look at the Yankees' and Mets' pricey new homes -- and the baseball stadium of tomorrow. |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
Most Profitable Sports Leagues The top five richest pro sports leagues. |
Sports Central
July 5, 2011
Diane M. Grassi |
National Pastime's Future Remains on Shakey Ground As we celebrate America's birthday this week, it is perhaps a good time to revisit how America's "national pastime" is doing. |
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. |
Sports Central
September 27, 2004
Diane M. Grassi |
Bud Selig's Final Task of the Season The final week of the 2004 Major League Baseball regular season is upon us and league titles and wildcards are still up for grabs. But the real question lingers -- where will the Expos call home next season? |
AskMen.com
April 6, 2013
Brett Smiley |
Baseball Fans The dawn of baseball every April tends to shower fans of every team with a clean slate and hope, when in reality, the writing is on the wall: a large chunk of the league is hopeless. |
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
May 3, 2005
Eric Poole |
The P-Word in Baseball? A summary of the Major League Baseball season so far, and looking ahead to the playoffs. |
Sports Illustrated
February 13, 2002
Lester Munson |
Re-lease me What really killed Major League Baseball contraction for 2002... |
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? |
Salon.com
May 18, 2001
King Kaufman |
Who goes to the ballgame? A look at this year's early attendance figures shows that a strong start in baseball doesn't necessarily get the turnstiles spinning. Except when it does... |
Sports Central
November 13, 2009
Matt Thomas |
The MLB Anti-Team of the Decade The team in question must be bad -- not just run-of-the-mill wins/losses bad, but terrible on a more philosophical level. |
AskMen.com
Dave Golokhov |
Top 10: 2008 Baseball Games To Watch You can't watch every game, so you should at least try to catch some of these must-see games. |
Sports Illustrated
August 22, 2002
Stephen Cannella |
Hypocrite Hicks Owner's comments underscore baseball's (anti)trust problem. |
BusinessWeek
June 24, 2010
Paul Wachter |
It's Not Whether You Win or Lose. It's How You Sell the Game Plan B. Branding helps turn minor league baseball into a lucrative, lovable freak show |
Salon.com
May 2, 2001
Allen Barra |
Damn Twins! The standings better turn upside down, or baseball's "small markets can't compete" argument is going to look pretty silly... |
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. |
BusinessWeek
November 26, 2007
Stanley Holmes |
Bend It Like...Blanco Cuauhtemoc Blanco, like Beckham, has amped up pro soccer's star power. Plus, he's pulling in Latino fans. |
Sports Central
April 10, 2007
Adam Russell |
Raising the Roof, or Sliding it Into Place? What a wacky first week of the Major League Baseball season. |
Sports Illustrated
November 29, 2001
Frank Deford |
Owners, aiders and abetters There are plenty to blame for baseball's current woes... |
Salon.com
August 8, 2001
David Davis |
Marvin Miller As the head of the Major League Baseball Players Association, he challenged the assumptions that players are chattel and that labor unions have no place within sports... |
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. |
