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Sports Central July 20, 2010 Diane M. Grassi	MLB's Gaming the Sale of Texas Rangers Continues The sale of the Rangers still awaits finalization and most importantly, the investment group to be awarded the final sale of the club has yet to be determined by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court and ultimately to be approved by MLB and its respective owners.
Sports Central April 26, 2011 Diane M. Grassi	Eyes Wide Shut: MLB, Wall Street Lay Bets at Same Table As we learned by way of the U.S. Court of Bankruptcy, through its court appointed trustee, Irving Picard, that the Mets' owners are being sued for nearly $1 billion.
Sports Central August 8, 2010 Jeff Kallman	The Express Buys the Railroad Nolan Ryan's group finally outbid Mark Cuban by $9 million to get the approval of the court-appointed bankruptcy restructuring officer and creditors who thought the Rangers' sale price wasn't high enough.
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?
Sports Central August 2, 2011 Diane M. Grassi	Joe Torre, the Next MLB Commissioner? Joe Torre, former Major League Baseball manager of no less than five MLB teams, as well as a former 17-year MLB player, has been making his way through the maze of MLB executive life in 2011.
BusinessWeek October 2, 2006 Mark Hyman	The Racial Gap In The Grandstands Major League Baseball is aggressively courting Latinos as African Americans drift away.
BusinessWeek May 5, 2011	Frank McCourt on MLB's Takeover of the L.A. Dodgers In April, Major League Baseball seized financial operations of the debt-ridden Los Angeles Dodgers. Still, the owner continues to dig in
Sports Central April 24, 2012 Diane M. Grassi	MLB's Desire For Cuban Players Overshadowed One can only hope that one day MLB will not solely rely upon the almighty dollar to feel right about its decisions, but also will do right, on behalf of not only American baseball community, but for the Latin American community, rather than just bleeding its talent dry.
Sports Central April 25, 2006 Diane M. Grassi	DC Politics Intertwine With MLB Ownership The Nationals are now going to be used by MLB as the poster child for recruiting the black community back to baseball. However, the way it is being done will probably fall on deaf ears to the very ones MLB is supposedly trying to reach.
Sports Central October 25, 2011 Diane M. Grassi	MLB Files Lawsuit on Manner of Exposed Finances Major League Baseball should be enjoying the fruits of an above-average 2011 postseason performance, which will be crucial to the impending expiration of its Collective Bargaining Agreement with the Major League Baseball Players Association on December 31, 2011.
Sports Central November 30, 2005 Diane M. Grassi	MLB Jeopardizes 2006 Season for Nationals Any success the Washington Nationals enjoy in 2006 will be in spite of Commissioner Selig, not because of him.
AskMen.com November 6, 2013	Is George W. Bush Going To Take Over Professional Baseball? Regardless of your positioning on the right or left side of the aisle, there is no denying the former Texas Rangers owner's qualifications for that job.
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 April 14, 2009 Diane M. Grassi	MLB Ramps Up Casino Sponsorships How does MLB oversee such sponsorships between MLB teams and those casino operations that allow legal sports betting on their premises?
Sports Central March 19, 2012 Diane M. Grassi	Investigation Casts Cloud Over Marlins An orchestration of monumental cover-ups, glad-handing, and pay-for-play campaign finance schemes continue to inflict consumers, taxpayers, and the public-at-large, by way of MLB, with civil practices by government officials from the unethical to the criminal in the case of the Marlins.
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 February 19, 2007 Diane M. Grassi	MLB Profits From Change in Immigration Law MLB has far more in common with American-based multi-national conglomerates than it does with the idea of inclusiveness, where bottom-line profits dictate company policy.
BusinessWeek November 26, 2007 Ronald Grover	Extra Innings in the Digital Game Digital rights looked like peanuts in 2000. Now some Major League Baseball owners want a bigger share.
BusinessWeek October 18, 2004 Mark Hyman	Washington: Who'll Win the Expos? The jockeying to win Washington's new baseball team gets fierce. It'll take more than cash.
Sports Central December 20, 2004 Diane M. Grassi	Nation's Capitol, MLB Go Full Circle At one time, Major League Baseball was our celebrated pastime in the spring, summer, and early fall. Over the past couple of seasons, however, we have been put on a perpetual baseball calendar of an ongoing sideshow.
Sports Illustrated July 30, 2002	Saving baseball The August 5 issue of Sports Illustrated lays out a simple plan to get baseball back on track. Topping the magazine's list of suggestions is that Nolan Ryan be installed as the game's new commissioner.
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 March 12, 2008 Diane M. Grassi	MLB Goes to Harlem Seeking Welfare MLB and two of its two major league teams cash in on public entitlements, courtesy of the City of New York.
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?
Sports Illustrated July 23, 2002	Defend This As it faces a racketeering suit, baseball should be afraid, very afraid.
Sports Illustrated January 15, 2002 Kostya Kennedy	Captain Conflict It's high time Bud Selig steps down as Major League Baseball commissioner...
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.
Sports Central March 19, 2009 Diane M. Grassi	Grainy Issue Remains For MLB Bat Makers MLB would be doing itself a service if it far more respected those who brought it to the dance -- the fans and the small businesses that prop it up.
Sports Central May 30, 2006 Diane M. Grassi	Why Baseball's Losing its American Identity The decline of participation of the black athlete in baseball is a far more multi-faceted problem than commonly expressed.
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).
BusinessWeek November 1, 2004	How the Baseball Commish Calls It Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig on money in the majors, steroids, a certain rich New York team, and much, much more.
Sports Central May 10, 2007 Diane M. Grassi	Does Clemens' Contract Disrespect Baseball? There are a number of questions beneath the veneer that are far bigger than one Roger Clemens.
BusinessWeek July 21, 2003 Mark Hyman	This Waiting Game Is a Smart Play For the past two seasons, the future of the Montreal Expos has been hanging like a pop-up in the thick air of a July afternoon. But is Major League Baseball now ready to act?
Sports Illustrated February 13, 2002 Lester Munson	Re-lease me What really killed Major League Baseball contraction for 2002...
Sports Central November 22, 2004 Diane M. Grassi	D-Backs Axing Backman Typifies Double Standard Major League Baseball, as an entity, seems to have no written standard for its players or managers regarding their past unethical or illegal behaviors for which they have paid their dues and have supposedly reformed their illicit behaviors.
Sports Illustrated October 30, 2001 Stephen Cannella	Significant Shrinkage No one knows what to make of the rumors that some big league teams will disappear...
Sports Illustrated May 8, 2001 Michael Bamberger	Downsize This! Baseball may have blundered into its best idea in years: contraction...
Sports Central September 17, 2004 Diane M. Grassi	MLB and its Fans Need to Clean Up Their Acts Major League Baseball, as well as its fans, took a collective literal blow on Monday, September 13th at Oakland Coliseum at a game between the Oakland Athletics and the Texas Rangers.
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.
BusinessWeek July 11, 2005 Maurer et al.	Now That's A World Series Major League Baseball's 16-nation tourney will have big stars and political tension -- if everyone plays ball. The tourney represents MLB's push to globalize baseball, open new markets, and widen the pool of talent.
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.
Sports Central December 15, 2004 Diane M. Grassi	The Epitome of Hubris At a time when Major League Baseball could really use its players to promote a positive image, two of its biggest stars -- Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez -- choose to take the easiest route to earn the quickest return without including the community or its children.
CFO April 1, 2004 Tim Reason	Squeeze Play Forget steroids. It's spending that has baseball in a bind.
Sports Central August 20, 2014 Jeff Kallman	Does Manfred Have a Vision Thing? Sports Illustrated's Cliff Corcoran, said Rob Manfred's ascension "represents an unprecedented continuity in leadership for MLB." This is not entirely a consummation devoutly to be wished.
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Reason January 2004 Matt Welch	If You Build It, They Will Leave Sports teams fleece the taxpayer, again, by threatening to leave even after taxpayers pay for new stadiums to placate team owners.
AskMen.com October 15, 2003 John Clarkson	The Wild Face Of Baseball Baseball may be the national pastime, but there has been legitimate cause for years to wonder if Major League Baseball (MLB) is the forum in which America chooses to express her love for the sport.