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...Baseball and hockey may be throwing up bricks, but the NBA isn't: Owners and players announced a temporary agreement today to play the season under a no-strike, no-lockout pledge while negotiating a new collective bargaining deal. This means that even though the players don't have a contract, the basketball season starts November 4. The key issue in the talks -- just as it is throughout pro sports -- is the players' salary cap: The owners want to close loopholes in cap rules, while the players are trying to abolish the cap, adopted...
...with the future so bright, the owners call a lockout. I say, let the league fold. These idiots aren't even smart enough to take advantage of the position they are in. Baseball owners at least know that the fans will always come back...
...owners should have conceded what was necessary to let them keep playing, at least for the rest of the season. A lockout at the beginning of a season hurts the game far less than truncation of season is one of the best ever. Baseball didn't die. It was just drugged into a back into its come by the owners...
...former commodities speculator who fled the U.S., pursued by a flock of indictments, and rules interests throughout Europe. For almost two years, at the U.S. federation's request, unions in 20 countries harassed and disrupted Rich's activities until, in mid-1992, he ended the West Virginia lockout...
Selig would not speculate on whether theplayers would agree, but he assures fans, "therewill be no lockout this year...