Word: seliger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What show? The one with no labor agreement (still), no commissioner (Bud Selig doesn't count), no national television contract, no marketing director, 30 agendas for 30 franchises, 80 different player agents, a statistically meaningless 144-game schedule and millions of seats now empty because the occupants have left for good...
...quit showing games after this year's World Series. "Baseball shot itself in the foot again," says TIME Sports writer Steve Wulf. "They just fiddled around, wouldn't make any kind of commitment to the networks, and now they don't have a broadcast TV deal." Acting commissioner Bud Selig has been reluctant to sign a new deal until baseball resolves its ongoing labor dispute with players. And some owners believe they can negotiate a more lucrative deal with CBS or FOX. Stay tuned...
...personally greeted fans at Fenway Park, while San Diego Padres players handed out free caps before the game. Despite those efforts-and incentives like cut-rate seats on opening day-major league players returned to work to find tough (and often sparse) crowds waiting. Said Brewers owner Bud Selig, baseball's acting commissioner who canceled last year's World Series: "We got a lot of work ahead of us." --By Kathleen Adams, Lina Lofaro, Belinda Luscombe, Alice Park, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin and Sidney Urquhart
...their efforts over the Cantabrigians, Brown attackman Josh Selig and Princeton defender Todd Higgins were named the Ivy League Co-players of the Week. Selig scored four goals against Harvard and added three in the Bears' 22-13 romp over Penn (4-7, 0-6). Higgins, on the other hand, held Harvard junior attackman Mike Eckert--the league's second-leading scorer--to no points for the first time all season...
...owners to return to the work rules of the expired collective-bargaining agreement. So baseball was right back where it started last August, with the same old system in place and no sign of a new agreement. The distrust between union head Don Fehr and acting commissioner Bud Selig is still so vehement that they can't even agree on a mutual no-strike, no-lockout pledge for this season...