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...have millionaire basketball players back to bridge gap between the millionaire football players of the fall and the millionaire baseball players of the spring, creating a year-long procession of overpaid athletes...
...pilots gave until it hurt then," he says, "and the executives made a jillion dollars when Northwest got healthier. Now it's doing very well, and the labor contracts are up, and the pilots want their pound of flesh." To Northwest, says Saporito, the pilots are "overpaid prima donnas who already got their fair share." Clearly, there are no white hats in this one -- just a lot of native South Dakotans with no way to get home for Labor Day (OK, several native South Dakotans). "Northwest's regional monopoly may force Clinton to intervene," says Saporito. Until then, the money...
...disgraceful that baseball, a sport abounding with overpaid players, graces your cover while the virtual holocaust of famine occurring in Sudan is tucked inside. It is shameful that a sport and its millionaire players can warrant more of TIME's attention than 2.6 million starving Sudanese, of whom 350,000 may be facing death. KRISTIN CAM Springfield...
...glorious moment in the annals of sports history when Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls won their sixth NBA championship [MICHAEL JORDAN: THE END OF THE LINE?, June 22]. I haven't always been an avid Jordan fan. I once thought he was overpaid, that nobody was that good. But no more. He's turned playing basketball into an art form. He is the Lord of the Hardwood Floor, a unique athlete and classy human being. We've seen basketball played with perfection by the greatest player ever. JOHN L. HORTON Norfolk...
...bell ringer might have been massive selling by insiders at Coleman in March, beginning only days after the company agreed to be bought by Sunbeam. The Coleman folks had to sell, or lose, their stock options. But by moving so quickly, they bolstered the view that Dunlap had grossly overpaid. Indeed, nine Coleman insiders, including Levin, cashed out 581,000 shares, according to CDA Investnet--near the post-merger peak and just ahead of the stock's collapse along with Sunbeam...