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...huge amount of money pouring in from TV is the major reason for the escalation of player salaries -- and, by extension, labor problems like the current baseball lockout. The flow of TV dollars has increased the already tremendous pressure on college coaches and athletes to compile winning records and reach postseason play. Meanwhile, as drug scandals and other sports controversies proliferate, TV commentators face the difficult task of reporting on events that, in many cases, their employers have a financial interest in. Though less boosterish than they once were, sports journalists have traditionally gone easier on events telecast by their...
...month ago, only cynics believed the owners of the 26 major-league baseball teams would seriously consider putting the 1990 season in danger. Management's Feb. 15 lockout of players from spring-training camps in Florida and Arizona was largely seen as a negotiating ploy, a bit of bluff and bluster that might hasten agreement on a new contract and get the game going on time, before any serious money was lost. The events of last week, though, proved the cynics correct. Talks between the club owners and the Major League Players Association remained deadlocked. In an eleventh-hour gesture...
When Ingvar Carlsson, Sweden's Social Democratic Prime Minister, entered the chambers of parliament last week, he was convinced that he brought with him the cure to the country's economic woes, which are many. Banks had been closed for almost three weeks in a bitter strike and lockout; wages have risen 28% since 1986; and inflation gallops ahead at an estimated 9%. Carlsson's plan was painful: a two-year freeze on rents, wages and prices and arbitration to prevent strikes. After several hours of heated debate, the five opposition parties united to defeat Carlsson's bill. The final...
...reporters were barred from the mayor's office. But that did not stop them from scooping their powerful rival, the Los Angeles Times, by printing damaging reports about Bradley's finances just three weeks before the election. Last week, however, Herald Examiner staffers faced a far more formidable lockout: the Hearst Corp., unable to find a buyer for the unprofitable daily, announced that it would shut the paper's doors after Thursday's edition...
Under the language in Hurst's contract, a player gets paid during a lockout unless the lockout is in response to a strike or a strike threat...