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Prudent or not, the huge amounts being ponied up by TV are changing the economics of pro sports. Major-league baseball's billion-dollar TV pact is an unspoken issue looming behind the current baseball lockout. "The television revenue isn't being produced by the owners," says Donald Fehr, head of the players' union. "It's being produced by the players. The lion's share of the television money ought to go to the players." With the N.F.L.'s just completed TV deal, clubs will be making money even before they sell a single admission ticket. "The rights fees fueled...
...think it's no secret that we thought the order should have been broader," said Donald Fehr, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association. "I think this will give us a good indication of what clubs are up to. Everybody's been crying there's no catchers. And everybody's been crying there's no pitchers. Here's a group that has catchers and pitchers...
...crooks again if we let them. Let's see if anything changes." Roberts' next step is to reconvene the advocates of management and labor to argue over the long-term remedies, as well as the financial damages presumably owed Gibson and the rest. As Baseball Union Boss Donald Fehr interprets the ruling, "Some people might say the owners have been convicted and are waiting to be sentenced." For the moment, however, the football players have a clearer understanding of the price of freedom...
...acted quickly to forestall him. A few of the enclosed ballots were immediately filled out, and whole teams opted for testing--Pittsburgh Manager Chuck Tanner made the Pirates vote. However, everyone eventually attached a rider requiring the accord of their union. It was not forthcoming. Acting Executive Director Donald Fehr called Ueberroth's appeal silly and suggested that the commissioner was out to make personal news, presumably to some political benefit. Ueberroth said that he was prompted by a number of major league players who actually applied to join the minor leaguers in a mandatory testing program now four months...
...publicly announced last spring a tough policy of mandatory testing for drugs among minor league players and umpires, but his plan could not be applied to major leaguers because of a contractual agreement between the club owners and players' union that provides only for voluntary testing. Says Don Fehr, head of the players' union: "Chemical abuse is a medical problem and should be treated like one, presupposing the doctor-client relationship and its confidentiality...