Word: memorabilia
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...accounts. First, the NFLPA fund money is provided almost entirely by the ownership. There is little reason that current players should vote to withhold pension payments absent of Upshaw’s pressure. Second, the league continues to make bucks off the names and feats of vets; it sells memorabilia, shows old film on ESPN Classic, and maintains the Hall of Fame.The retirees’ case against the league is one against pure greed. This year Gene Upshaw will make $6.7 million—the highest salary for a union official in American history. At the very least, the NFLPA...
...said Coveney, who never misses a game. “They have to hang tough—rain, sleet, snow.” And you thought comping Women in Business required dedication. Cardullo’s proprietor Frances Cardullo plans to add a display of Red Sox memorabilia and upgrade the current television to an LCD flat panel in time for the playoffs. “I don’t do it for profit,” says Cardullo. “I do it as a community thing.” The Cardullo’s crowd...
...more bitter. "Today, a bunch of Mets fans should turn their attention to the [New York] Giants," says Christian End, a psychology professor at Xavier University in Cincinnati. "Pick up the paper, and read about the 12 sacks they had against the [Philadelphia] Eagles on Sunday. Unpack the Giants memorabilia from your drawers." Problem is, I like the New York Jets, who are 1-3 and lost to Buffalo on Sunday...
...critics are representative of the hypocrisy of “the system,” which cries foul over the degradation of amateurism while treating its athletes as a supply of indentured labor.In his speech, he criticized the mass marketing of college athletes (billboards of Heisman trophy candidates, memorabilia being sold) without any compensation for the athletes themselves. He challenged the myth of the student athlete, blasting a culture where athletes take easy classes if they even attend them at all, grade inflation is rampant, and players jump ship to the NBA the first chance they get (despite the league?...
Yale Galanter was livid when he flew into Las Vegas to meet with his client O.J. Simpson. He had arrived to discover that a local lawyer was claiming to represent the former pro-football player, arrested by police after an alleged break-in at a hotel to recover memorabilia. In an interview with TIME, Galanter expresses his incredulity at the other lawyer's gall: "Is there any person on the planet who doesn't know I represent...