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...have the bucks grown. The National Football League's new pact, approved a week ago, is a stunner even by the rapidly inflating standards of the medium: $3.6 billion, divvied up among five broadcast and cable networks, to bring every touchdown pass and holding penalty into American homes for the next four years. It is the biggest TV sports deal ever negotiated...
Prudent or not, the huge amounts being ponied up by TV are changing the economics of pro sports. Major-league baseball's billion-dollar TV pact is an unspoken issue looming behind the current baseball lockout. "The television revenue isn't being produced by the owners," says Donald Fehr, head of the players' union. "It's being produced by the players. The lion's share of the television money ought to go to the players." With the N.F.L.'s just completed TV deal, clubs will be making money even before they sell a single admission ticket. "The rights fees fueled...
...college sports, TV revenue poses other, more troubling problems. The 64 members of the College Football Association, for example, negotiated a lucrative five-year TV pact with ABC for $210 million in January. Three weeks later, Notre Dame bolted from the group and signed its own TV deal with NBC for more than $30 million. The move brought cries of foul from other colleges. The increased money and TV exposure, they complained, will give Notre Dame even more of an advantage in national recruiting and will encourage other strong teams to pursue a go-it-alone policy, to the detriment...
Carril is back stalking the court during practice, driving home the lessons, once again imposing his will. Suddenly, a player drives to the basket, sweeping past a passive defender. Now Carril is in full cry. "Are you a Quaker?" He sputters. "Didja sign a nonaggression pact when you enrolled here?" The players have heard this one before, but it has the desired effect. The next time a player cuts to the hoop he is mugged by the defender. Carril smiles his tiny smile. Shortly thereafter, he dismisses class...
After 15 years of terrorist activity, Colombia's notorious M-19 guerrilla group signed a pact with the government last year and stepped back into civilian life. Former leaders Carlos Pizarro Leon-Gomez and Antonio Navarro Wolf now want to run for office in the country's March 15 municipal elections. Pizarro Leon-Gomez hopes to become mayor of Bogota; Navarro Wolf mayor of Cali. But they face a serious obstacle: impending trials for crimes that include the spectacular 1985 takeover of Bogota's Palace of Justice and the 1988 kidnaping of former presidential candidate Alvaro Gomez Hurtado. Gomez...