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Order was restored in the Chinese pro basketball universe last night when the Guangdong Tigers finished their sweep of the Shandong Lions to claim their eighth Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) title. This was probably the most competitive game of...

With the NBA's new collective bargaining agreement in full swing, it's all about the contracts.

The NHL lockout is almost officially over. The owners ratified the new collective bargaining agreement Wednesday, and the players are expected to do the same by Saturday. The last step will be the signing of a Memo of Understanding. (I like to imagin...

Detroit feels the pain of the former CBA, and the rest of the Week 12 news.

NHL owners let yesterday's self-imposed deadline for a new CBA come and go, refusing to even meet with Donald Fehr and the NHLPA. This comes one week after Gary Bettman apparently stormed out on the players' counteroffer presentation. The league has ...

We're less than two weeks away from the opening day of the 2012-13 NHL season, which can only mean one thing — the players are locked out. For the third time in 18 months (yes, we have a lockout hat trick), a major sport's team owners have shut...

With a touch of homage to their 1994 Expos forefathers, the Nationals climb to the top of the charts.

I got the news of Omer Asik's offer from the Rockets in an e-mail from a friend. The gist was that Omer, a restricted free agent, was getting paiddddddddddddddddddd — and to be clear, that's "paid" with 19 d's. First reported by Yahoo!'s Adrian...

On Friday, arbitrator Kenneth Dam ruled that Jeremy Lin and Steve Novak were entitled to Early Bird rights under the NBA collective bargaining agreement. The decision was a huge win for the Knicks. It allows them to use the Early Bird exception to re...

An exhaustive (if belated) look at May in New York Times wedding announcements.

In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Thursday. NBA players and owners officially ratified the new collective bargaining agreement. "It was a mere formality at this point," said commissioner David Ster...

The NHL's shadowy-titled Board of Governors gathered Monday and Tuesday in the hockey mecca of Pebble Beach, Calif. The agenda included a player-safety update and discussion about the upcoming CBA talks, but the sexiest, most anticipated, and most co...

BRI, systems, mid-level exceptions, amnesties, oh my!

Well, that was fun. After nearly 150 days of lawsuits, mediations, intramural flag football games with Kevin Durant, exhibition basketball games in Rucker Park with Kevin Durant, exhibition basketball games in Oklahoma City with Kevin Durant, and lat...

After months of negotiation, NBA owners and the vestigial representatives of the players' association agreed to a new Collective Bargaining Agreement that saved the 2011-12 season. Here's a look at some of the fine print. Revenue Sharing To ensur...

Hey, you know that one sports league that keeps stabbing itself in the eye because the parties involved can't look past their own self-interest? Apparently Major League Baseball got jealous. The terms of MLB's new collective bargaining agreeme...