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Thereal players may be back, but now the umps have been locked out. Pro baseball umpires are walking picket lines at stadiums where exhibition games are being played to protest. The umpires today balked at a contract proposal from the owners, but neither side would discuss the details. The umps...
It's easy to see where these would- be reformers are coming from. Back in the good ol' days, the race for the NCAA football title was decided solely by the games between Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Fans flocked to massive stadiums, all of which looked as historic as Nassau...
Soccer, the lingua franca of sports everywhere else in the world, was finally - on tongues in the U.S. as the cup made its Stateside debut. And even if only a few in this country were fluent enough to know a penalty shot from a shootout, Americans filled up stadiums to...
The owners are the same people who brought expansion (ie., massive entrance fees and more low-quality baseball players) to stadiums near you the past season and who threaten to expand again by the end of the century.
The next thing is that even if a half-dozen teams are losing money, teams with new stadiums (Orioles, Indians, Rangers) and massive cable television contracts (Yankees, Dodgers) have enough money to set up a system similar to the players' last proposal.