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...players dismiss the cries of poverty as a bargaining ploy. In many cases, they charge, the red ink is a figment of creative accounting. A study by baseball accounting expert Roger Noll, professor of economics at Stanford University, found that the Pirates earned a profit of $4 million in 1990 but turned it into an $8 million loss by taking one-time write-offs, such as the expenses to pay released players. Players also point out that salary increases are slowing. Average pay is up 25% this year, vs. 45% in 1991. Next year salaries are projected to inch...
...equally dangerous. Massive Government borrowing soaks private savings out of the economy, leaving fewer funds available for business investment. Most ^ ominous, the national debt may exceed $2.2 trillion this year. The interest payments on that gargantuan sum already threaten to put an intolerable burden on future generations. Says Roger Noll, a professor of economics at Stanford: "What we will see happen as a result of continuing deficits is the slow, persistent erosion of the health of the U.S. economy...
...should use it," says Dallas Cowboys General Manager Schramm, a member of the National Football League's five-man "competition committee," which every off-season invades the Hawaiian islands in the pursuit of progress. The other mad scientists are Miami and Pittsburgh Coaches Don Shula and Chuck Noll, and Atlanta and Cincinnati Executives Eddie LeBaron and Paul Brown. "Every now and then," says Schramm, "we'll move out onto the grass and play like we're football players. Here we are, five strange men in shorts, demonstrating different ways ^ of holding each other." They get some unusual looks from passersby...
...Brown's Cincinnati Bengals. "The coaching atmosphere under Paul was almost clinical. Let's say, you were assured of the players' absolute attention." Brown put more than a chill in the players. He put the classroom into pro football. Still, his best students (Don Shula, Chuck Noll, Walsh), all have been different. No great coach is like any other, really...
...Chicarello, Marshall, Bujarski, Nowiszewski 2, Souter 2. Lubiak, Wolfe, WP--Noll, 2B--Martelli, 3B--Souter...