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NBA Trades As the "impartial" commissioner, David Stern has taken it upon himself to make the final decisions about trades involving the team he's not supposed to be running. He's putting his fingers where they don't belong.   |
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. |
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 |
Sports Illustrated
February 11, 2002
Alexander Wolff |
International Basketball Association? Expanding to Europe could be in the cards for the NBA... |
Sports Central
December 30, 2009
Diane M. Grassi |
Rogue Commissioner: NBA's David Stern Is NBA Commissioner David Stern a hypocrite or merely an evolved businessman wanting to cash in his chips? |
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
June 3, 2005
Eric Williams |
Let's Make a Deal, Commissioner Stern Message to Mr. Stern: The NBA is on the verge of a lockout. Get a deal done now. There is too much to lose and not nearly enough to gain if there is no NBA next year. Just ask your favorite NHL player. |
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). |
Sports Central
February 21, 2011
Bob Ekstrom |
Time to Shorten the NBA Season The dog days that follow the 2011 NBA All-Star game are good occasion for owners and players to take the pulse of their league, and the hard truth both sides need to confront is that the regular season should have ended last Thursday night. |
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
January 24, 2002
Frank Deford |
This Bud's for who? The controversies continue for baseball's commissioner... |
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. |
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
June 7, 2012
Stephen Kerr |
Conspiracy or Coincidence? Commissioner David Stern sends a memo announcing a mandatory meeting of his staff, including the league's Board of Governors and the head of officiating. "This is highly confidential," the memo stated. |
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. |
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, 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 12, 2005
Seth Berkman |
NBA Dollars and Sense Commentary on the NBA dress code being all about money, plus, news from around the league. |
BusinessWeek
October 25, 2004 |
David Stern on Yao -- and Going Global For the NBA commissioner, the Chinese superstar is a prime symbol of the league's expansion abroad |
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
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 Illustrated
April 17, 2001
Marty Burns |
Changing the rules Give NBA credit for trying to fix its problems... |
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
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
February 5, 2003
Frank Deford |
Viva Las Vegas A WNBA team playing in a casino? And the problem is ... ? Pro sports needs to quit moralizing and get real about the so-called threat of gambling. |
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
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. |
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
April 21, 2005
Damian Greene |
The NBA Season in Retrospect As we prepare for the NBA playoffs and watch an endless barrage of TNT's "40 Games in 40 Nights," let us reflect on the NBA's regular season. |
Sports Central
June 2, 2008
Brian Cox |
All Things Old Become New Again For the 11th time in league history, the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers will square off for the NBA title. |
Sports Central
April 25, 2010
Vito Curcuru |
While Celtics and Magic Roll, Stern Fumes There are three things we have learned during the NBA playoffs: the ghost of Tim Donaghy past still haunts David Stern, the rumors of the Boston Celtics' demise have been greatly exaggerated, and the Orlando Magic may need to find a cape for Jameer Nelson. |
BusinessWeek
February 4, 2010
Charlie Rose |
At the Table: David Stern of the NBA A conversation with the NBA's David Stern about guns, gambling, and goodness. |
Sports Central
December 22, 2008
Scott Shepherd |
In the Roatation: NBA Week 8 Whether it's the two best players in the league squaring off for one of the only times that particular season, an NBA Finals rematch, old rivalries renewed, or some combination of all three, the NBA always delivers the goods on Christmas Day. |
Sports Central
October 19, 2009
Scott Shepherd |
82 Things to Watch For This NBA Season (Pt. 3) Here's a breakdown the former Eastern Conference and a prediction of how each team will fare as they begin a new decade of basketball. |
Sports Central
June 22, 2009
Scott Shepherd |
NBA's Biggest Draft Lottery Losers Here's a look back at some of the worst draft picks since the NBA started using the lottery format in 1985. |
Sports Central
April 3, 2013
Bob Ekstrom |
Absence of Drama Down NBA's Homestretch As we head into April, the NBA has just flipped the calendar for the final time in one of its most anti-climactic seasons in modern memory. |
Sports Central
August 15, 2008
Scott Shepherd |
Overhyping Overseas Can we please stop all the talk about Kobe Bryant and LeBron James playing in Europe for $50 million? Enough already. |
Sports Central
June 4, 2012
Bob Ekstrom |
C'mon, Eddie! Nobody Believes Anymore Skepticism and downright disbelief now seem to permeate every chink in the once impenetrable honor of the NBA of my youth. |
Sports Central
March 21, 2011
Bob Ekstrom |
Kommissar Stern is Zeke of the NBA From elementary school to work place to retirement center, bullies are everywhere, and professional basketball is not spared. |
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 Illustrated
May 17, 2000 |
The great juiced-ball conspiracy This much we know. More players hit more home runs than ever before. But we don't know why.... |
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
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 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. |
Sports Central
June 2, 2011
Diane M. Grassi |
A Fair Process to Becoming an Owner? The question needs to be asked as to whether presiding Commissioner of MLB Bud Selig makes major decisions such as team ownership based upon sound business acumen or subjective reasoning influenced by his personal relationships. |
Fast Company
June 2006
Noah Shachtman |
Nothing But Net The strategy at most entertainment companies looking to capitalize on the new networked gadgets has been to just peddle the same old stuff in new places. But the NBA is thinking bigger, adopting what is known as the "remix model." |
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. |
Salon.com
July 10, 2002
Keith Olbermann |
Baseball ruins everything it touches Only this messed-up ex-national pastime could manage to take its premier fan event, the first genuinely exciting All-Star Game in years, and abandon it without an outcome. |
Sports Central
February 9, 2009
Scott Shepherd |
In the Rotation: NBA Week 15 A look at the top storylines from around the NBA this week. Plus, H-O-R-S-E coming to the All-Star Game, it's almost too good to be true. How can the league could possibly screw this up? |
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... |
