Fields and Questions
Alan Grant...year. If you're an incumbent player, this means change is coming. With the advent of the salary cap, however, change doesn't necessarily mean upgrading a position. It means cheap labor. In his last...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 21, 2009The Morning According to Us
Chris Sprow...the Florida teams and Phoenix have been running red ink for years, and now rely on a salary capped league and other machinations to pay the bills. In Phoenix, apparently bills haven't been paid...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 19, 2009The Morning According to Us
Chris Sprow...level players may take a hit. Even massive deals for great players could suffer. For years NBA salaries have escalated to the point where a massive deal for a player like Brian Cardinal was greeted...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 22, 2009Lil Wayne's Blog: "I'll be rooting for the Lakers, and LeBron already knows that"
Lil WayneI apologize for being away from the blog for a while, but things have been crazy with the tour and everything. Now, I've got a little break from music...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 21, 2009Quick Final Four Observation No. 2: Izzo and Calhoun's Generation Gap
Ted Bauer...Calhoun's most "viral" clip? That time he went off on a reporter who asked about his salary in the context of the recession. ("I make way more than that.") So when people ask you...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 30, 2009Fixing Dominican Republic Baseball
Jorge Arangure Jr....the world, which speaks to the sad state of amateur organized baseball in the country. 3. International Salary Cap Why it works: Since the Players Association has no involvement in Dominican amateur market, baseball can...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 13, 2009The Morning According to Us
Paul Kix...which was taxed at the highest income bracket in 2008. He was then taxed on his yearly salary, which he doesn't disclose, and which is tough to figure anyway because of the life of...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 05, 2009The Morning According to Us
Chris Sprow...was due a $1.5 million roster bonus on Tuesday, so he was gone on Monday. His salary-cap number for this season would have been $5.75 million. Now, sayanora. Stories like this dominate...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 03, 2009A Market Mirror Image
Peter Bernstein...year, attendance per game also rose 25 percent. Over the next 15 years, baseball revenues and baseball salaries tripled, as did the prices of single-family homes. The numbers seemed outlandish to people with a...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 26, 2009The Morning According to Us
Chris Sprow...level of cynicism is toward college basketball—if you insist on pointing to the corruption, coaching salaries, or belabor the fact that Kevin Durant would be a junior right now and it's a...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 26, 2009Action Sports Report
Alyssa Roenigk...and DHD surfboards—take care of his travel and provide him with gear, boards and a salary that allows him to live comfortably and pay the mortgage. Since leaving Reef, Bobby says nothing about...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 26, 2009The Morning According to Us: The NEXT Redemptive Tale in Sports
Paul Kix...Skeet dropped out of high school his junior year. He quickly realized that a shelf-stocker's salary leaves little discretionary pay, especially for distractions of the salacious kind. So he turned to, yep, house...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 23, 2009NFL Draft: Trading Down Makes You Go Up? In Most Cases, Yep.
Chris SprowJim Schwartz, first year head coach of the Detroit Lions, says he learned more from Bill Belichick than anyone else. "Watching him cross every 't' a...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 19, 2009
Lunch Links
Max Klinger...s camp. Obama had a reunion pickup game with high school teammates. Can baseball feasibly adopt a salary cap' Video of a six-year-old soccer star who could burn an And-1 baller. If...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 19, 2009A-Rod: Those Affected
Ted BauerYou learn as early as pre-school that actions have repercussions, right? (Even if you don't know the word "repercussions" until fifth grade, like us.)...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 10, 2009EDITOR'S PICKS
...multi-million dollar contracts must play in order to take home what you make annually? ESPN's
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